Sonali Sharma Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

As the Director- Integrated Markets and Tech Adoption programs, I am responsible for the successful delivery of the programs and its alignment towards the overarching strategic goals. Program Management, Communication, Stakeholder Relationship, Project Reviews, Fund Disbursements, and Budget allocation are some of my key focus areas. Parallelly, I am leading the Strategy Execution Process at IBC, with a purpose to create Organization wide alignment, skill building, and adoption of the new strategy and performance management framework. Enabling Organization wide adoption of globally accepted strategic management tools such as Strategy Maps, Balance Score Cards, Logic Models etc.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Integrated Marketplace (IM) is a demand-driven program that accelerates the commercial adoption, de-risking, & scaling up of domestic innovations while assisting key areas of the provincial economy to decarbonize, increase competitiveness and strengthen health & safety. Developed by the Province of British Columbia as part of the StrongerBC Economic Plan and supported by PacifiCan, the program is delivered through Innovate BC in cooperation with partnering Testbeds. As a Program Manager, I oversee IMO operations as well as communication with stakeholders. My priority is the timely and effective achievement of program strategic goals while strengthening relationships with key stakeholders.

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Nugu is an impact business with the vision to build sustainability and togetherness through conscious crafting. We specialize in building sustainable micro-factories for handcrafting premium homewares. We are addressing the massive social and environmental damage caused by large factories and promoting a micro-level sustainable production model that empowers the marginalized craft community.After successfully designing sustainable ceramic dinnerware for hospitality brands such as Marriott, Westin, JW, Radisson; Nugu is committed to being a conscious homeware brand in the North America. Nugu Home launched its E-commerce vertical headquartered in BC - Canada in November 2022. Currently selling D2C across North America and B2B to eco conscious retailers and Hospitality brands in Canada and US, Nugu offers one of the largest collection of sustainably handcrafted bespoke ironstone dinnerware. Our goal is to make handmade affordable!

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Mentoring, Guiding and Coaching a group of entrepreneurs as a part of UBC's entrepreneurship program.

I facilitated the co-creation of various Leadership and Management Programs for leaders in the Indian government Education sector. The entire experience with this foundation was immensely rewarding and intense and helped me gain expertise in collaborating and designing learning experiences that involve multiple stakeholders for varied environments.

Bangalore

•Leading, coaching, training and inducting the team of trainers •Planning and managing the annual training calendar•Coaching and training School leaders and teachers for various clients of South India•Working with the content design and development team to create training programs for our clients•Delivering various certificate level and professional training programs•Organizing efficient inbound and outbound training programs

New Delhi Area, India

I worked with this beautiful organization for almost 10 years, holding various positions like teacher, trainer, project manager and event manager. In 2006, I became the training head for the education training academy called Knowledge Tree ( a unit of Mother's Pride).As a training head, I was responsible for the training and development of a staff of over 1000 teachers and 50 academic leaders over various branches of Mother's Pride schools.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Innovation In Products And Services: Design Thinking

Bachelor In Science, Biology, Child Development

•3 years diploma in Computers from NIIT Ltd., Delhi (2002) •Microsoft Certified Product Specialist in Win-95, VC++ and Sequel 6.5..