Antoinette Sarpong Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lead the development of internal communications strategies, from drafting key messaging, memos, Q&As, and CEO speeches to coordinating employee engagement events, ensuring clear and impactful communication.

Canada / International

• Write news and feature articles for various publications around the world.
• Published content for: NOW Magazine, the Guelph Mercury, Queen’s Alumni Review, Popjournalism, Yellowpages.ca, South Africa's Genderlinks, Osaka's Kansai Scene Magazine, Canadian Government Executive.
• Wrote a monthly column on trains and Japanese culture for Tokyo's largest English magazine, Japanzine.
• Contributed feature stories on Ghanaian culture, as a blogger for the Toronto Star series "Africa Without Maps."

Toronto, Canada Area

Taught undergraduate students how to develop key skills related to employment and leadership in the Professional Skills and Communications course at the School of Public Policy.Developed experiential classroom activities that have helped 10 per cent of my students secure jobs and internships upon course completion each year.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I worked with a multidisciplinary team of in-house consultants to provide hands-on consulting services to ministries on policies, programs, and services to foster public sector innovation via three primary areas of practice: strategy/strategic foresight, service design, and systemic design.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lead the design and delivery of the ministry's Leadership, Learning and Development Program for current and aspiring leaders, with curriculum focusing on the following themes: Leading with Emotional IntelligenceConflict ManagementMental Health in the WorkplaceEffective Communication & InfluenceFostering a Culture of Respect in the WorkplaceInclusive.

As a member of Supply Chain Ontario's Stakeholder Management team, I manage a portfolio of clients in the Ontario Public Service (OPS), broader public sector (BPS) and health sector to source personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical supplies and equipment throughout the province to support the COVID-19 response.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Worked in partnership with Infrastructure Ontario to ensure an integrated approach to communications and stakeholder engagement for the Queen's Park Reconstruction Project --- an eight-year workplace modernization impacting 16 ministries and 7,400 OPS employees.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed and coordinated ministerial events to promote the heritage, tourism, culture and sport sectors.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Conducted research and data analysis to support the development and review of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities (AODA) standards.
• Prepared briefing notes and presentations for senior management.
• Drafted responses to public inquiries on AODA legislation and compliance.
• Designed an AODA compliance placemat that was used for Deputy Minister briefings.
• Tracked and analyzed over 1,400 public correspondences to identify stakeholder AODA confusion, culminating into a presentation for senior management where I provided low-cost options that are being implemented in 2020.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As an Impact Storyteller, I supported the communications team responsible for the Canada Service Corps grants program by:Conducting interviews (in person, phone, Skype, etc.) with #RisingYouth grantees representing all provinces and territories, about their project activities, producing 40 long-form Medium blogs. I also conducted outreach to establish.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Connected internal and external stakeholders to resources and information in the policy, agency and tribunal relations division.
• Designed a monthly newsletter, prepared correspondence and maintained a media relations database by tracking inquiries and responses.

Toronto, Canada Area

• As an Outreach and Education Advisor at the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD):
• Distilled complex information into accessible presentations for community organizations, schools, correctional institutions and police groups, to help them understand the public complaints system.
• Designed integrated engagement plans and outreach initiatives that advanced strategic partnerships.
• Developed an ESL presentation on police oversight that resulted in a new partnership with a newcomer organization in Central West Ontario.
• Produced a business case to successfully procure video equipment for the Communications Unit.
• Shot and edited a video series on police oversight, developing the OIPRD’s inaugural YouTube channel.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provided strategic communications advice to internal and external stakeholders.
• Wrote and edited a variety of communications materials to communicate the impact of Ontario's sport and recreation programs, which included: communications plans, news releases, backgrounders, speeches, presentations.
• Collaborated with the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario to produce a video that kick-started the Premier's Roundtable on Women and Girls in Sport.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Collaborated with program and policy areas to write and edit speeches and correspondence.
• Managed the editorial calendar and produced social /web content, increasing Twitter followers by 10 per cent.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Planned and coordinated multi-day training events.
• Edited youth justice communications products.
• Selected for the Ontario Black Youth Action Plan (BYAP) Committee, reviewing applications that provided funding to community organizations to deliver Violence Prevention Campaigns.

Toronto, Canada Area

• As a Digital Communications Intern at ServiceOntario:
• Tracked and categorized 600+ customer emails received weekly at ServiceOntario to produce reports that informed social media strategy.
• Consulted senior web specialists to develop and implement a new reporting system, resulting in more efficient info gathering.As a Strategic Communications Intern at the Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer.
• Conducted research for senior advisors.
• Wrote and edited accessible communications products.
• Provided clients services to engage stakeholders during the Top Baby Names campaign.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed press materials and generated media lists for some of Toronto's premier arts and entertainment events, including Cirque du Soleil and Just for Laughs.
• Carried out essential media relations for clients, including the Open Roof Film Festival, resulting in a full- page feature in The Grid magazine.

Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

• Developed and taught lessons at Korea’s premier educational institution that specializes in English preparation tests.
• Motivated and coached Korean high school students to prepare them for English proficiency tests for admission to international colleges and universities.

Moncton, NB / Otuam, Ghana

• Collaborated with community organizations and a Ghanaian project supervisor to facilitate an educational exchange program for 18 youth from Canada and Ghana.
• Solved an ongoing transportation issue by procuring bike donations from community members during a bus strike in Moncton, saving CWY over $2000 in transportation fees.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

• Coordinated a nine-month volunteer service-learning program, managing the program budget
• Fostered a positive group environment in a live-in position
• Facilitated a non-formal learning program and community relations.
• Promoted from Project Leader to Project Support Leader for Manitoba, where I coordinated the search for 50 billet families and was responsible for Manitoba-wide media relations.

Accra, Ghana, West Africa

• Led the execution of human rights events for the African University College of Communications.
• Wrote blogs on Ghanaian culture and politics for the Toronto Star's Africa without Maps web series.
• Delivered the keynote speech for Journalists for Human Right's annual Night for Rights fundraiser.

Osaka, Osaka, Japan

• Developed and taught ESL lessons for a public high school, managing a class of 40 students.
• Promoted to Head ESL teacher and developed English exams for Shimizudani High School.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Conducted research, wrote copy and worked daily with video editors to produce news and feature stories to deadline, with competing priorities, in a fast-paced newsroom.
• Greeted and wrangled on-air guests as a talent coordinator during the live show
• Responded to audience inquiries by phone and email.

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Master Of Public Policy, Administration And Law (Mppal), Public Policy Analysis

Activities and Societies: Featured writer in Canadian Government Executive magazine.

Postgraduate Certificate, Corporate Communications And Public Relations

Activities and Societies: • Awarded Most Creative Entry at the 2014 Voices Public Speaking Contest. • Elected Student Council.

Bachelor Of Journalism, Journalism

Activities and Societies: • Wrote news and feature stories for the Ryerson Review of Journalism, The Eyeopener, and McClungs Magazine. •.

Journalism

Activities and Societies: Worked part-time as an information officer at the main campus student centre. Completed investigative.

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