Anne M. Patterson Email & Phone Number

Canada

As Director of Communications at Canada's Labour Market Information Council, I created accessible experiences and content to help people engage with important trends that shape the world of work in Canada. My role involved: • Leading a strategy portfolio that includes communications, content strategy, stakeholder engagement, media relations, public affairs, government relations, events, and content production;• Managing relationships with key stakeholders and… Show more As Director of Communications at Canada's Labour Market Information Council, I created accessible experiences and content to help people engage with important trends that shape the world of work in Canada. My role involved: • Leading a strategy portfolio that includes communications, content strategy, stakeholder engagement, media relations, public affairs, government relations, events, and content production;• Managing relationships with key stakeholders and partners;• Performance management and reporting, including charting achievement toward strategic goals, developing project-level logic models and KPIs, and using data to inform strategy;• Overseeing the delivery of a full suite of French translation and editorial review services;• Managing and coaching a distributed team of communications professionals and several consulting designers, editors, translators, and UX/UI specialists. Show less

As a member of DOT’s senior leadership team, I was the strategic and functional head of communications, brand, and digital strategy at a rapidly growing international organization that spans 25 countries and a diverse array of youth-focused incubator, accelerator, and startup programs. My role involved:• Leadership of all global communications, public affairs, and brand portfolios, including overseeing the performance of integrated communications portfolios across 12… Show more As a member of DOT’s senior leadership team, I was the strategic and functional head of communications, brand, and digital strategy at a rapidly growing international organization that spans 25 countries and a diverse array of youth-focused incubator, accelerator, and startup programs. My role involved:• Leadership of all global communications, public affairs, and brand portfolios, including overseeing the performance of integrated communications portfolios across 12 countries;• Creating stakeholder engagement strategies, campaigns, and brand partnerships to expand the global reach and impact of programs, advocacy, and initiatives;• Organizing an annual international conference for youth and partners;• Representing the organization as spokesperson at events, panels, and speaking engagements;• Managing and coaching a local staff team, a global team of communications leads, consultants and vendors, and overseeing the organization’s Youth Advisory Board; • Leading a community of practice for communications practitioners across the global organization;• Executive profile management and thought leadership strategy;• Performance management and reporting, including charting achievement toward strategic goals, developing project-level KPIs, developing project-level Theories of Change and logic models, and using data to inform strategy;• Facilitating strategy sessions with executives, Board Members, staff, and partners;• Speechwriting, thought leadership, policy analysis and commentary. Show less

As DOT’s Senior Manager, Communications and Digital Engagement, I had the opportunity to:• Lead a comprehensive organizational rebrand and brand rollout across 25 countries;• Develop a globally applied and locally customized content marketing strategy;• Spearhead the design and launch of the organization’s first fully accessible and barrier-free website;• Execute an annual international innovation summit for entrepreneurs;• Lead the organization’s first Ottawa-based… Show more As DOT’s Senior Manager, Communications and Digital Engagement, I had the opportunity to:• Lead a comprehensive organizational rebrand and brand rollout across 25 countries;• Develop a globally applied and locally customized content marketing strategy;• Spearhead the design and launch of the organization’s first fully accessible and barrier-free website;• Execute an annual international innovation summit for entrepreneurs;• Lead the organization’s first Ottawa-based accelerator program for young entrepreneurs;• Coordinate annual Girls in ICT Day events locally (in Ottawa, with Global Affairs Canada, Invest Ottawa, and others), and internationally (in Ethiopia, with the African Union, ITU, UN Women, and others);• Write speeches for a number of high-profile appearances, including the World Economic Forum at Davos, Walrus Talks, TED, and UN addresses. Show less

As DOT’s Manager of Communications and Technology, I had the opportunity to:• Execute the first of an annual series of international social entrepreneurship conferences for 100+ attendees;• Lead a foundational global market research project to inform organizational strategy; • Develop and roll out a global cross-platform content strategy;• Lead all communications, brand, marketing, and digital engagement activities;• Facilitate human-centered design workshops;• Write… Show more As DOT’s Manager of Communications and Technology, I had the opportunity to:• Execute the first of an annual series of international social entrepreneurship conferences for 100+ attendees;• Lead a foundational global market research project to inform organizational strategy; • Develop and roll out a global cross-platform content strategy;• Lead all communications, brand, marketing, and digital engagement activities;• Facilitate human-centered design workshops;• Write speeches and coordinate event attendance for staff. Show less

As DOT’s Manager of Community, I had the opportunity to: • Develop digital-first stakeholder engagement strategies for youth, government, and partners;• Engage an online community of more than 6000 youth and establish a network of international community champions to sustain and grow an active online space;• Coordinate global communications, marketing, public relations, and media activities.

As DOT's Online Community Facilitator, I had the opportunity to:• Develop a series of virtual events and competitions for youth entrepreneurs in East Africa and the Middle East;• Design and deliver digital skills and social media curricula for entrepreneurship and youth leadership programs; • Establish the organization’s first global online community;• Work with international teams to create localized youth and entrepreneur engagement strategies.

The CSED mentorship program supports the skills development and professional growth of social entrepreneurs in CSED's incubator and accelerator programs. Learn more about their programs here: http://csedottawa.ca/programs/I'm pleased to contribute my experience in brand, communications, digital strategy, and community development as well as share what I've learned over 10 years of working closely with social entrepreneurs in 25 countries.

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. Awesome Ottawa supports local projects through monthly micro-grants. These micro-grants are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects.

As one of the founding editors of Popular Anthropology Magazine, I had the opportunity to:• Edit the visual anthropology section from the magazine's launch until it’s acquisition;• Work extensively with artists, documentarians, anthropologists, students, and journalists to create accessible articles that bridged the gap between academia and public interest.

As program manager and social planner for the SPRC’s Community Mapping Service, I had the opportunity to:• Evaluate the impact of urban planning and community development initiatives;• Tell compelling visual stories about community economic and social development;• Manage a revenue-generating social enterprise that offered custom research and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping to urban planners, developers, and non-profit organizations in the GTA;• Lead business… Show more As program manager and social planner for the SPRC’s Community Mapping Service, I had the opportunity to:• Evaluate the impact of urban planning and community development initiatives;• Tell compelling visual stories about community economic and social development;• Manage a revenue-generating social enterprise that offered custom research and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping to urban planners, developers, and non-profit organizations in the GTA;• Lead business development, grant writing, marketing, and PR. Show less

As part of the Geographic Information Systems team at the Social Development Centre Waterloo Region (formerly the Social Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo), I developed social impact evaluation maps for urban planning and community development activities in the region.