Alanna La Rose

Director, Strategic Initiatives at RBC | MBA | Insights + Thought Leadership

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Experience

  • RBC (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Director, Strategic Initiatives
      Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    • Senior Manager, Enterprise Strategy and Transformation
      Nov 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Specializing in strategy and insights: collaborating with senior leadership to bring an external and challenge lens to strategic initiatives including process optimization and efficiencies, market and competitive analysis, best practices and the integration of emergent themes from sustainability to LLM.

    • Economics & Thought Leadership | Office of the CEO |
      May 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

      • Responsible for strategy development and enablement for RBC's Thought Leadership & Economics team, and launch of RBC Climate Action Institute with forays into research and writing on Canada's emerging trends and issues focused around sustainability, technology, and innovation. Passionate about the Indigenous economy, leadership, and partnerships.

  • MBA at Ivey Business School at Western University
    Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr

    • Dean's List • Francis Tardif Memorial Award • Ivey MBA Association Award

  • Project Manager at BTO
    Feb 2015 - Jan 2020 · 5 yrs

    Heavy Industry - Infrastructure and Remediation Project Manager • Operations and Cross-functional management: implementation of project contracts, committees, working groups and planning, stakeholder management including engineers, vendors, sub-contractors, human resource management - executing projects and programs ranging from regulatory and risk evaluations to procurement • Sustainability: Evaluations and reporting, resource optimization, environmental programs best practices HSSE Lead,Project Coordinator • On-site lead: environmental, health + safety, schedule execution, permitting, procurement, talent acquisition and resourcing