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Toronto, ON, CA

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

In my role as Vice President of Business Development and Learning at OTEC - Workforce Innovation, I oversaw business development, marketing, and learning product development for an $8 million non-profit. I successfully drove a significant increase in fee for service training revenue, secured new grant funding, and established partnerships with key.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

This consulting role is focused on directing and implementing the national expansion of Stone Soup Network. A social innovation project of the United Church, Stone Soup leverages the power of technology to virtually match gifts of products and services with individuals and families in need. Sharing abundance and strengthening community through people and.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Led national expansion of VFC's Fellowship and Internship Programs including planning, hiring and people management, and marketing.Key achievements since spring 2018:
• drove program growth of 350%; expanding Fellowship Program into six provinces
• scaled competency-based Fellowship recruitment, selection and onboarding; enabling 100% virtual selection and onboarding in 2020
• oversaw launch and scaling of Internship Program, from 30 participants (2018) to 1000 (2020)
• led creation of Entrepreneurial Skills Roadmap underpinning all VFC entrepreneurial training; led delivery of 250 hrs. of annual in-person and 980 hrs. of online skills training
• drove strategy and execution of VFC brand refresh, including new website and VFC's first digital Impact Report

Toronto, Canada Area

• Futurpreneur Canada | Toronto, ON Director, Corporate Development
• Signed crucial multi-year partnerships with top Canadian banks.
• Strengthened relations with key program funders, by improving funder reports, modernizing stewardship efforts and developing theory of change for core programming.
• Collaborated strategically across departments to secure new funders and in-kind sponsors.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Levered strong business contacts to seed a new donor base for this project in Toronto’s Jane/Finch neighborhood, generating ++ $1 Million.
• Led development of a highly collaborative, outside-the-box business plan; generating new revenues and many more partnership opportunities for Toronto’s first community-led organic farm.

Toronto

• Managed comprehensive introduction of new social enterprise and the Caja Box sustainable growing container in S. Ontario, establishing demo gardens at Evergreen Brickworks, Humber College and Ryerson University.
• Worked directly with local charity, to raise funds for pilot garden in Thorncliffe Park, managing project launch, volunteer training and project evaluation culminating in feature news story on CBC National and visit.
• Assisted with business planning for parent company; Caja Boxes now scaling in Canada.

Toronto

• Led a successful two year change management project focused on upgrading technology systems and overseeing the complete redesign of Smart Serve training and professional certification.
• Guided key technology upgrades including website, CRM and LMS, driving efficiencies and a record $350K in annual cost savings while improving access to 80,000 users/year.
• Led redesign of Smart Serve training, including external vendors and working collaboratively with Ministerial staff and Ontario regulator.

Toronto, Canada Area

Humber College  Toronto, ON Recurring Contracts, School of Applied Technology/Professor Helped prepare more than 100 students annually for college success and coop job search.  Increased annual student placement numbers 100% and introduced numerous new employers to Humber.

Master Of Science - Ms, Performance Technology

Fellowship, Social Enterprise

Diploma, Workplace Learning

Activities and Societies: ASTD, ISPI, CSTD,

Ba (Hons), Political Science

Activities and Societies: Served 4 years in student government. 1 year on Faculty Hiring Committee (Political Science). Married to former.