John Levatte Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Developed multiple change management strategies and plans and led discussions to help the Agency fully define its change management capacity (office).• Delivered regular change management workshops and presentations to hundreds of employees (including senior executives) across the country. • Created and delivered change management coaching sessions and ‘Ask the Expert’ national meetings.• Developed change management presentation tools – including job aids, PowerPoint presentations, speaking points and q and a documents for senior-level executives.• Wrote numerous scripts for team members to use in ‘How-To’ video productions.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Created and delivered a suite of change management tools for use in a planned change management efforts, including new enhancements to human resource and financial software programs.• Delivered regular change management workshops and presentations which boosted change and communication knowledge across the department. • Worked with a broad team as project/change manager delivering successful change planning to a major department-wide technology project.• Created outreach, engagement and consultation plans to ensure the widest possible stakeholder identification and involvement in change resulting in better acceptance of multiple departmental changes. • Provided online training to multiple departmental stakeholders which helped to finalize changes and ensure long-term acceptance of new projects.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Provided guidance to senior officials in the department to help create a Change Management Centre of Expertise complete with staffing recommendations, CM tool development, levels of training, etc.• Designed and delivered a suite of change management tools for use in multiple, planned change management efforts.• Led the development of several change management and communication presentation tools – including job aids, PowerPoint presentations, speaking points and q and a documents.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Led all aspects of change management and training to improve organizational effectiveness, including issues management and stakeholder identification. • Worked as a Project Manager/Change Manager responsible for daily scrums and high-level briefing sessions with top management. • Provided communication and change management expertise and advice to leaders including the DG and ADM and team members on best practices and approaches to utilize during a large-scale, enterprise-wide software introduction.• Created consultation and stakeholder engagement plans.• Worked with change sponsor to create an effective coalition of change agents throughout the organization who were then able to translate change and provide coaching to staff and stakeholders. • Project work helped answer the important change question: ‘what’s in it for me.’• Developed a long-term change and communication sustainment plan.

Brockville, Ontario, Canada

• Designed and developed comprehensive communication and change strategies, plans, and a framework to outline a successful approach to announce a new landfill area in the counties. • Worked closely with the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville project team to conduct organizational analysis. • Drafted all communication products, including speeches and speaking points for the chief administrative officer for delivery at key meetings and during media interviews.• Wrote news releases, media notices and online content as well as email text for distribution to a specific stakeholder list and attended public meetings with the CAO.

Merrickville, Ontario, Canada

• Created communication and change strategies and plans for Newgate – a drug and alcohol treatment facility. • Created a Social Media Plan, a Communication Plan, and a Marketing Strategy for the organization.• Led all communication product creation including speeches and speaking points for the executive director for use during staff and regional government meetings.• Interviewed staff regularly and wrote their biographies for posting to Newgate’s website.• Created a YouTube channel for Newgate. • The completed marketing strategy for Newgate and related communication efforts significantly expanded the organization’s client base and helped to grow the facility’s outreach program and advertising market base leading to significant increases new client registrations.

Whitehorse, Yukon

As Senior Communications Advisor, I am responsible for ALL departmental and Ministerial Communications materials coming through the Premier's Office. Currently in charge of ALL news releases as well as overseas missions for the Premier, Cabinet and Departmental Officials.Cover media relations as well as special communications products like Op-ed pieces, Letters to the Editor, etc.

I worked as Manager of Consultations, putting together full consultation strategies and planning and was Manager of Cabinet Affairs for the Agency which meant I was dealing with and sometimes attending Cabinet Meetings on behalf of the CFIA. I also worked as a Deputy Director of Interational Policy.

At Foreign Affairs I was Senior Communications Officer responsible for the re-design of the Department's North American Web presence. This involved hiring designers, consulting with embassy and consulate staff throughout North America and eventually putting a plan together that made the various sites make sense.

Ottawa, Canada Area

During this period I worked in media relations, served as the communications advisor on two different Deputy Minister Task Force projects -- one related to change management, the other producing and introducing a major Treasury Board submission. At AAFC I wrote speeches, media notices, organized local, regional, national and international news and teleconferences and travelled with various ministers within Canada and abroad.

Bachelor Of Communications, Communications

Print Journalism, Journalism

High School Diploma

Change Management

Diploma In Print Journalism, Journalism