Stephanie Myers Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Providing high-level, exceptional communications in the Change Management Office.
• Executive communications support within Global HR Solutions, including at the VP and SVP level
• Planning and executing function-wide events including Town Halls and All-Hands meetings
• Managing an executive-appointed engagement committee, overseeing all communications, events, and vision for the committee
• Building relationships within Global HR and HR Business Partners to ensure inclusion, equity, and accessibility for employees at Scotiabank

• Helping to tell stories by Indigenous authors for young people that are beautiful, funny, and honest.
• Acquiring and editing children's books by Indigenous creators, including picture books, early chapter books, novels, and graphic novels in both fiction and non-fiction
• Creating catalogue copy for upcoming titles and updating backlist copy as the market demands
• Writing sales pitches for each of my titles for sales, marketing, and publicity purposes

• Getting Annick’s books into the hands of gatekeepers in Canada and the US.
• Building relationships with booksellers in Canada and the US, as well as regional organizations, and coordinating events with booksellers and creators.
• Creating and coordinating co-op programs with independent bookstores in Canada and the US
• Leading two major projects at Annick Press: one focusing on working with independent booksellers, and the other working with libraries in the north to get books to remote and isolated Indigenous communities.
• Participating in the Indie Social event with a number of other Canadian independent publishers.
• Coordinating the creation of seasonal print catalogues.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Daily specialized interaction with professors, administration, and students from all Canadian universities and colleges.
• Maintain daily record of orders and facilitate corrections to maximize client satisfaction.
• Coordinate eBook and WileyPLUS uploads to Campus eBookstore.
• Process custom textbook creation and production.
• Administrative tasks such as submitting internal and external invoices.
• Marketing research and lead generation to aid in directing sales specific to the Canadian market using a client retention management system (CRM) - Salesforce.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• The liaison between the board, the Indigenous Advisory Council, members, and non-members to help promote oral storytelling and respect for the oral tradition of Indigenous storytellers and storykeepers.
• Correspondence across Canada and contribution to Storytellers of Canada social media platforms.
• Spoke on behalf of the Indigenous Advisory Council when planning the Storytellers of Canada annual conference.
• Maintained close contact with members of the Indigenous Advisory Council on the board as well as outreach to prospective members, storytellers, and knowledge keepers.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Coordinated regional and national gatherings of Indigenous peoples within The United Church of Canada.
• Created reports to the Executive of the General Council.
• Contributed to newsletters for the Indigenous church and the wider United Church readership.
• Reported in both video and written capacities at the United Church’s 43rd General Council.
• Various administrative tasks such as meeting preparation; maintaining minutes and action items from meetings; coordinating travel for members and staff; assisting with membership lists; maintaining property details for.

• Gathering subject interviews, extracting samples, and compiling appropriate reports for the Ontario Dialects Project (2010-present, ongoing).
• Assisted with the first line edits and indexing of Dr. Sali Tagliamonte’s textbook Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Honours Bachelor Of Arts, Linguistics And English

Postgraduate, Publishing

Corpus Linguistics

Project Management