Ann Kenney Email and Phone Number

• Planned and executed news conferences and other special events; in collaboration with numerous private and public sector partners and stakeholders.• Media relations, including media analysis and monitoring, and responding to media calls on sensitive issues as well as pro-active media relations to garner positive media coverage.• Created and produced speeches, news releases, media advisories, brochures, briefing and QP notes, feature articles, media lines and Qs and As.• Issues management, including liaising and negotiating with multiple stakeholders including ACOA clients (internal and external), and providing recommendations as required.• Communications support and advice to ACOA programs and services, Head Office and the Minister’s office.• Coordinated and distributed ACOA at Work in Your Community, a magazine profiling programs, initiatives and businesses success as a result of ACOA support. • Created, planned and executed ACOA NB Outreach Summit/The Art of Success in 2006 a pilot special event; subsequently this led to another event The Atlantic Art of Success 2007 to help celebrate ACOA’s 20th Anniversary and another The Art of Success III in 2009. These events demonstrated the value of the Agency’s efforts in communities across the region and proved to be an excellent way to continue to communicate this value to external audiences.

• Provided support to the Vice-President with the planning and organizing of management events and meetings, including confidential meetings. • Planned and organized events and products for the Agency’s Resource Utilization Review (RUR), an initiative designed to maximize staffing and resource positions, including the writing of documents; presentations and announcements for the Vice-President. • Organized and implemented with the executive of the Federal Council -The Federal Council’s Annual General Meeting which consisted of three-day meetings that included team-building exercises and workshops – June 2009.• Created, developed and implemented The Art of Success III, a unique provincial showcase event designed to promote New Brunswick entrepreneurs and ACOA.

A public relations firm specializing in the planning and execution of specialized communications products and events. Clients included: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; McCain Foods Limited; Greater Fredericton Economic Development Corporation; The Knowledge Park; Business Development Bank of Canada; Construction Technology Association; The Pixel Factory; Jobs Unlimited; PNB Communications; Safety Source Limited and Saint John Ambulance.• Planned and executed news conferences and other special events including a major sporting event (McCain/TSN SuperSpiel).• Provided strategic communications advice and direction to presidents; chairman of the boards and executives. • Developed, planned and implemented communications and marketing plans, and their budgets, for announcements and other events.• Monitored and evaluated communications and marketing materials, and special events.• Researched, wrote and edited: speeches, news releases and backgrounders; media advisories; media lines; questions and answers; newspaper articles; newsletters; and brochures.• Issues management including media relations liaison.

• Wrote and edited communications products including: articles for community newspapers, news releases, speeches, fact sheets, communications and marketing plans, and executive reports and correspondence.• Provided strategic communications advice to President; and executive board members of the GFEDC. • Prepared and maintained a communications and marketing budget.• Planned and promoted a variety of events including news conferences; entrepreneurial workshops, seminars and conferences; monthly board meetings and annual general meetings.

• Planned and executed with a team of volunteers the annual United Way Fundraising Campaign.• Planned and implemented a series of presentations about the United Way to all levels of government, small business; educational and health institutions. • Prepared and maintained a communications and marketing budget.• Recruited, organized and led a team of volunteers responsible for the education and awareness of the United Way’s campaign and the organization itself.

• Planned and implemented employee and community communication activities, and events in Canada and the United States.• Wrote and edited communications products including: news releases, feature articles, fact sheets; and employee biographies.• Organized advertising and corporate sponsorships in Canada and the United States.• Researched and wrote speeches and presentations for Harrison and Wallace McCain.• Associate editor for the McCain “The Star” corporate newspaper, distributed worldwide to North America and Europe.• Coordinated all aspects of event planning and media marketing efforts for the McCain/TSN SuperSpiel East and West (cross Canada curling cash event).• Organized communications and marketing efforts for the McCain World Cup Figure Skating, presented live in Kitchener, Ontario and broadcast on television networks across Canada, the United States and Europe.