Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Over 25 years of experience in IT within various sectors, including Energy, Education, Healthcare, and Technology. Background and specialties include IT Strategy, Governance, Risk, Organizational Design, and Service Management. Previously, I led a team of technologists delivering infrastructure control systems to over 40 countries across the utilities, oil and gas, and environment industries. Following that, I have been advising and consulting with technology leaders, ranging from Small Businesses to Fortune 500 companies.
Advising CIO and IT leaders in IT strategy, Governance, Risk, Organization Design, and Service Management with a background in Energy, Health, Education and Technology.
Digital transformation advisory and organizational change consulting specialist. Delivery of transformation consulting within the Energy, Health, and Business Sectors. Consulting focused on organizational change, digital transformation, Microsoft 365, Cloud, MS Dynamics, ERP, Service Management, and other enterprise technologies. Consulting on transformation with clients, impacting user counts of up to 50 thousand impacted direct users and up to 3.5 million indirect users. Relationship management held a key focus in this role, requiring communication, operational and system development and proposal writing. As the owner, I believe financial acumen and management are key while leading a consulting team of up to 29 organizational change practitioners or leadership advisors, as I have in the past. As client after client took on a new change, we realized that leaders still struggled to sponsor change well. We began doing transformation coaching for leaders. As time went on, we discovered increasing gaps in governance of those changes and saw a necessary rebrand. Strategic Sense Inc. evolved into a group of companies supporting Transformation, Change, and Governance. Two other avenues were emerging as well. The team had been helping clients and consultants with their website design and KDP publishing - an organic shift that spurred businesses. Small Biz Creative and In The Lead Seat was born. Our Group of Companies now consists of the following brand names: GlobalSway Small Biz Creative In the Lead Seat
Clients: RMA, Informa Tech / HDI, AUMA, AMTRA Solutions, NEB, Betach Solutions, Parkland Fuel Corporation, Business Instincts Group, Streamline Control, Plains Midstream, Enbridge, TransCanada, CHMC, University of Calgary, McKay Hlavacek Architecture / AHS, Shaw Communications, Vantage Enterprises and CCDS under Alberta Human Services, Business Instincts Group, Eqalix Bio-Tech, Public Works & Government Services Canada, Air North, Pipeline Solutions, Pipestone Projects (Access Pipeline, TransCanada - Coastal Gas Link, Kindermorgan - Transmountain Pipeline, Chevron - Pacific Trails Pipeline, CNOOC/Nexen - Aurora LNG), Phronesis Engineering, Edmonton International Film Festival, Dominion Lending, Me In A Tree Technologies, nonStopGolf, First Class Fashions, Cowbrand Webstores, Lonely Gourmet, The Sante Center. Coaching Engagements: Siemens, CompleteMASTERY Institute, City of Calgary-Project Manager, Fortune 500 Strategist, Senior Hotelier, Recreation HR, MacPhail School of Energy, Emerson, MBT Mortgage Brokers, Eqalix Clinical Technology Company, Alberta Health Services, Enthrill Entertainment, Tiferet, Pason Systems, Heinlein Publishing Services, Telvent, Event Management Professional, & CEO/Author.
GlobalSway is an executive leadership accelerator for digital leaders, solving operational ineffectiveness through Executive and workforce development. Still under the parent company Strategic Sense Inc., our rebrand to GlobalSway encompasses our commitment to leaders globally. • Digital products supporting executives and practitioners in leadership, transformation, change and governance. Active in those communities, I speak and am invited to participate in conferences, research, webinars, and podcasts. **Speaking • 2024 - CIO Canada Peer Forum, Calgary • 2024 - PINK 24,, Las Vegas • 2021, 2022, 2023 - Support World Live, Las Vegas • 2021 - CPC3, Calgary • 2021 - NARIMS, Virtual • 2021 - HDI Philly Chapter, Virtual • 2018, 2019, 2021 - Service Management World • 2021 - T Manager of Tomorrow, Poland • 2018 (2x), 2019 (2X) Haskayne School of Business, Calgary • 2018 - Rotary Club of Lethbridge • 2017 - Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation (CMHC), Keynote Edmonton • 2013 - Calgary Software Quality Discussion Group • 2013 - Distinctive Women • 2012 - Public Works and Government Services Canada, Keynote Edmonton • 2012 - Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton • 2012 - Social Media Unplugged, Calgary • 2011 - Dominion Lending, Lethbridge • 2010 - Podium Ventures, Calgary • 2010 - WOW Conference, 2010, Calgary • 2005 - SAIT Women in Technology **Recent Podcasts/Interviews/Webinars**: • 2024 - The DEX Show by Nexthink Eps. 82 • 2023 (3X) Digital Dialogue, Institute for Digital Transformation • 2023 - APMG Connect, Cyber Resilience Team • 2023 - Informa Tech (HDI) Webinar October • 2022 - The DEX Show by Nexthink Eps. 43 • 2023 - Ticket Volume by InvGate, Eps. 54 • 2023 - Tolerable Risk Eps. E016 • 2022 - IT After Hours (QSTAC), Eps. 3, season 3 • 2020 - Informa Tech (HDI) Webinars • 2020 - The Cybersecurity Librarian with Mike and Moro • 2018 - SPOCast Eps 5
Institute Fellows are Industry Experts who share insights, opinions, research, and real-life experiences about the transition from the Industrial Era to the Digital Era. Fellows have a unique set of experiences and perspectives offering our unique voice to understand the world that is shifting around you and what you must do to survive the transition and thrive in the Digital Era. We need organizations and leaders who are comfortable operating with uncertainty and who can rapidly evolve their operating models to adapt to changing markets and directions. That is a transformational culture. That is transformational leadership.
Four tech specialists, three seasons of conversation about technology solutions, service management, and leadership, tips and hints on dealing with tricky organizational topics in tech environments—51 Episodes total! => SEASON 1 The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still - Revel in the Chaos - The Edge of Something New - The Fork in the Road - The Adventurer’s Journey - Keeping the Energy Up - Filtering the Feedback - Writing the New Script - Pause to Recalibrate - Continuum - Eyes on the Horizon - Bold Leadership - A Better Question - Share Your Story Don’t Just Check that Box - The Reality Distortion Field - Mid-Air Transfer - The Decision Odyssey - Taming my Dragon - TBD - Tenacious, Brave and Dynamic => SEASON 2 We’ve Admired the Problem Long Enough - True North vs Magnetic North - Ingredients to Expedience - Don’t be invisibles - Knowing When It’s Time - Jamming with an Audience Falling Into Default - Crucible of Commitment - The Center of Gravity - But I digress - We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know - All is Hallowed - Getting Over It - Unrehearsed and Raw - There’s No Attitude Like Gratitude - The Empathy Baseline - Transformation vs Transaction - The Punctation at the End of a Wild Ride => SEASON 3 The Rub and the Radiance - An Episode for the Aegis - If This Is the Answer, What’s the Question? - Bubbles of Safety - Leaders Help Others - Bend an Ear, Bend a Mind - The Curiosity Factor - Crafting the Brouhaha - Where Do Dreams Go? - We’ll Be Here Long After - Ideas to Action - Finale: Going Forward