Lissa Foster Email & Phone Number

London, Canada Area

Lead a small team to develop and implement action plans toward the achievement of strategic priorities. | Ensure the delivery of high-quality programs and events across Canada involving thousands of high school students, medical students, academic and clinical health providers and researchers | Implemented equity and inclusion initiatives, increasing board, laureate and program participant diversity | Strengthened existing stakeholder relationships and negotiated new partnership funding agreements with national health organizations, corporations and faculties of medicine resulting in increased funding, expanded programs and greater impact | Initiated analysis and resulting improvements to program processes, organizational rebranding, online presence (new websites, social media channels), human resource tools (performance evaluation) and data management (conversion to new customer relationship management software platform) | Working with multiple stakeholders and committees, manage high calibre national events with a focus on ‘flawless execution’ to honour outstanding Canadians and their contributions to the health sciences

London, Canada Area

Managed corporate community relations activities for Citi businesses in Canada including Citi Foundation granting oversight in the Canadian market. Oversaw all site corporate communications locally and served as the corporate communications senior leader SME during a challenging time of divestiture.

London, Canada Area

WIL is a nonprofit, community-based training agency specializing in employment preparation for immigrant professionals.Developed marketing strategies and revenue development opportunities. Initiated a cross-community collaboration for immigrant professional skills searching known as Skills International.

London, Canada Area

A national, multi sport event with 3,000 athletes that took place over two weeks and across 42 venues Managed a fantastic team of leadership volunteers to attract 13,000 volunteer applications for this premier London sporting event.

Ontario, Canada