Laurie Lyle Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Overhauled financial systems including new integrated technology, restructured general ledger with 13 classes, and customized 40+ spending committee reports.• Processed annually more than $1.2 million in payables, oversaw all donations received via five different platforms, and tracked grant and bequest revenue over $100k, and delivered the first fully audited set of books.• Managed more than 40 contractors and trades to ensure a safe and secure facility including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, cleaning, landscaping, communications, and fire and security systems including CCTV, door fobs, and security/fire monitoring systems.• Implemented a new database with 2k+ records used for the distribution of a weekly newsletter, annual tax donation receipts, and for daily tracking of confidential member information and volunteer engagement.• Launched a cloud-based file management system and introduced an organization-wide application subscriptions policy to save more than $5k per year, and an online security practice for all staff.• Supervised and directed workload and performance of two direct reports, coordinated HR systems and filing requirements for ten full-time staff including work schedules and vacation allocation, plus distributed T4As for 20+ part-time staff and liaised with bookkeeper and ADP on payroll adjustments and reporting.• Managed the main office, providing daily support to the customer service team, ensuring they had the necessary technology and supplies, and developing front-line communication practices.• Managed tenant and renter relations including day-to-day requests, approving special bookings, preparing contracts, establishing a multi-room scheduling system, and addressing facility usage issues.• Participated in board, trustee, and committee meetings, taking minutes and providing reports as needed, plus supporting all volunteer committees and working groups with finance, staffing and facility needs.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Our charitable foundation's endowment enables us to fund the Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club, the Toronto Music Festival, and provide grants to organizations that provide children and youth with the chance to learn and succeed. During my six years on the Foundation Board, I lead a member consultation process to identify the Club’s grant funding focus, introduced an online grant application process and participated in the review of grant applications from children’s charities.

Toronto, Canada Area

The Kiwanis Club of Toronto has helped the children and youth of Toronto's inner-city for more than 100 years! Kiwanis is a global organization dedicated to Serving the Children of the World. It was my honour to service as President for two years during which time we developed a strategic plan, celebrated our 100th Anniversary, and increased membership and club service, earning Distinguished Club honours. I remain an active Club member (since 2014), serving as Immediate Past President and Chair of the Governance Committee.

Toronto, Canada Area

Humbercrest was established in 1915. We serve a student population of approximately 700 children from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8. We believe a strong partnership between school and home is key to providing our students with the best environment to achieve success. Parent Council plays an important role in achieving this goal and communications is key to parent engagement.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Toronto Kiwanis Festival showcases and adjudicates more than 30,000 performances each year in music, dramatic arts and dance. As Vice-President of the Board, I've had the pleasure to oversee volunteer management by introducing a new online scheduling structure to fill 200 spots at 13 venues over 10 days.

Toronto, Canada Area

The School for Continuing Studies offers courses to earn professional education certificates. It was exciting to be brought in to write the course syllabus for the Marketing & Sponsorship course in the Event Management program, which included responsibility for preparation of all lessons, creating assignments and projects, and developing the grading rubrics. In all I delivered the 3-hour class every week for 10 weeks, for 3 semesters during the two year run of the program.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Clubs work with young people and their families to enable them to develop the life skills, knowledge and values essential to becoming healthy contributing individuals. During my seven years on the Board, I created a fundraising event called "Blueprint for the Future" to kick-off a $7M capital campaign. The success of the event continued and grew for 10 years. As Treasurer, we overhauled GL codes to deliver consistent year-over-year comparisons, improved mid-year projections. As President of the Board, I collaborated with the ED to re-write the charities bylaws. I continue to support TKBGC as an Honourary Director.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

While leading the Membership Department, we launched ten new member benefit programs, implemented new CRM technology and improved database integrity of more than 9,000 company records and 20,000 individual records. We also adopted a new membership sales cycle, created an annual multi-channel sales strategy to promote membership benefits and created customized sales presentations to prospective members. It was a pleasure to also manage four industry committees, working with the chair to set the agenda, take minutes and deliver committee objectives.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I was brought in to deliver profitable, professionally-executed roster of events. Within three years we had increased attendance levels and had industry events ranging from CEO Breakfasts for 40, to a golf tournament for 200, and a national convention for more than 700 including an industry awards gala dinner. We reduced department budget by 30% without compromising the number of programs offered or impacting the quality of the product. We also created a sponsorship program which resulted in a 50% increase in revenue, in addition to securing more than $600,000 in products and services at no cost to the company. In 2002, we launched a new name and brand/logo for our national conference and overhauled our industry awards, both of which are still in use.

Toronto, Canada Area

I was responsible for all event promotions, media relations and marketing communications for 23 varsity sport teams and the campus wide recreation program and worked closely other university departments in areas of alumni relations, student engagement, donations and sponsorship. I provided interviews and live-to-air updates on radio sports programs like Fan590, and secured one-on-one interviews for coaches and athletes.

Toronto, Canada Area

In addition to all administrative duties involved in running the office, I wrote and designed a 100-page annual directory and sold advertising to cover the cost of producing an annual directory. From an association management perspective, I also updated and amended the annual operations manual which included all policies and procedures and league/sport rules, and produced all documentation from the AGM.