John Winkels Email & Phone Number

A strategic communicator and solutions-oriented leader with 20+ years of management experience in both the public and private sectors. I’ve helped my employers build successful business relationships and partnerships with major banks, telecommunications and energy companies, government, health care, education, and community organizations. Adaptable and collaborative by nature, I thrive when helping multi-disciplinary teams solve complex challenges to deliver on business objectives.

Listed skills include Leadership, Project Management, Editing, Corporate Communications, and 30 others.

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  Communications Advisor

  Halton Region

  Jun 2014 - Present - Oakville, Ontario

  • Currently lead a team focused on strategic communications and public engagement for over 630,000 residents, 14,000 businesses, 2,000 staff and hundreds of community organizations.• Successful oversight of the strategic planning, development, implementation and evaluation of communications and public engagement plans aligned to the Region’s Strategic Business Plan.• Responsible for several leadership roles over the past eight years, managing hundreds of projects, initiatives, events and issues for Regional Council, Economic Development, Public Health, Paramedic Services, Infrastructure Planning & Policy, Community Safety & Wellbeing, Social & Community Services and more. • Collaboration and partnership development with internal SMEs, local, provincial and national levels of government, school boards, hospitals, first responders, local businesses and community organizations.• Eight consecutive years of successful and exemplary employee ratings, complimented by 15 Excellence Awards (Regional, National and International).