 She sits on the advisory committee of the Stratford Institute at the University of Waterloo, the Leadership Council of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics as well as the editorial advisory board of "Marketing Magazine".In October 2016, Dickinson was appointed to the board of directors of one of Canada's largest licensed medical marijuana producers, Aphria.In 2011, Dickinson published her first book, "Persuasion", in hardcover as an autobiography.