Anna Paluzzi, C. Dir Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Develop a Community of Practice and provide leadership to the Power User community in the Intelligent Automation space. Lead the marketing and communication of the breakthroughs, achievements and evolution of the Power User CoP and the Intelligent Automation organization at large, within and external to Canadian Tire Corp.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for - managing risks to the IT portfolio- driving collaboration within the ePMO and across other peer groups - leading the marketing of IT and its strategic initiatives and successes to the organization at large- managing project delivery across the enterprise ensuring a consistent and efficient delivery of the tools and processes- providing strategic input; managing changes to portfolio allocations; leading project prioritization and gating processes - developing and reinforcing the use of consistent methodologies and quality assurance

Calgary, Ab, Ca

 Lead the development and execution of global and regional communication strategies for SMART’s North American and international channel partners.  Advise business units, services organization and product management on appropriate and relevant messaging, optimal vehicles and time frames to ensure channel partners at all tier levels have the tools required to increase their sales of SMART products and solutions Manage the creation, delivery and measurement of all communications vehicles including, executive messages, bi-weekly e-newsletters, video/web conferencing, virtual and live events, web partner portal required to deliver on integrated sales, marketing and channel initiatives Manage projects to support channel communications through influence and strong relationships cross functionally at all levels of the organization, and with external vendors and consultants Business lead with responsibility for the implementation of a new partner portal in 2011, re-work of web based Partner search application in 2012 and for the ongoing strategy, design and content enhancement decisions for these portals

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Led the development of detailed and integrated communication strategy, plans, tools and tactics to address internal and external stakeholder community change management initiatives Led the internal Stakeholder Communications and Engagement team responsible for all internal BT communication, Managed the execution of all internal BT communication including: rogersbt.com, an internal social networking site for the BT team; a weekly team e-newsletter; executive to executive and executive to employee messaging and presentations; employee and executive events including: bi-annual VP Readout; quarterly town halls; employee recognition events

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Defined, developed and implemented strategic communications plans and stakeholder relationship management strategy to advance the adoption of Systemic Treatment Computerized Physician Order Entry (ST CPOE) solutions in hospitals and regional cancer centres across the province  Developed communications, content and gathered feedback for monthly user webinars and an annual user forum, to engage with key stakeholders (physicians, nurses, pharmacists and IT participants) from all regions of the province to share best practices and set direction for upcoming system releases; (average rating of 80% for overall satisfaction) Created abstracts and awards submissions for external healthcare events, conferences and publications. These abstracts were selected for the highly visible and largest of healthcare conferences in the country -- Ontario Hospital Association’s Health Achieve 2009 and for the eHealth Conference 2010  Successfully developed a strategy and proposal to acquire $10M in additional government program funding to assist Systemic Treatment Information Program (STIP) in achieving 90% adoption of ST CPOE in Ontario. Funding was granted in December 2009

Ca

Led the definition, alignment and implementation of the global Multimedia Services (high definition video conferencing and Telepresence) marketing and communications strategy

Ca

Led the definition, development and execution of the Unified Communications (UC) sales & channel partner marketing campaigns, partner communications to support sales efforts resulted in over 20$M in revenue

Ca

Managed the planning and execution of Nortel’s Global Sales CRM solution and processes to over 1400 sales and marketing professionals worldwide

Ca

Manager, Business Operations, Information Technology (Nortel 1998-2001)Business Operations Manager for IT Enterprise Services organization (over 400 employees worldwide); led a team of five with responsibility for strategic direction, organizational development (succession planning, performance measurement, mentoring and recognition program), internal communication, and executive presentations/briefings/events

Ca

Implemented several HR information systems projects, most notably -- a new internally developed HR and payroll system (was project lead on executive compensation, Workers’ Compensation and pension payroll modules); the set up of an HR employee benefits call centre with a new suite of tools and processes; the implementation of the first web-based employee self-serve HR portal

Toronto General and Western Hospitals 1990 – 1992Information Systems, Patient Care Systems Business Analyst

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Chartered Director Designation (C.Dir), Chartered Director

Professional Certification, Marketing Management & Competitive Intelligence, Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics

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