Dalhousie University

Director, Public Engagement & Community Health Board Support at Nova Scotia Health Authority

- Led the development of the public engagement strategy and developed a program and support team.
- Oversight and management of 37 volunteer community advisory boards in the province, and
leadership of the 24-person team that supports them.
- Managed a $3 million annual program budget.
- Developed and led a strategy for a province-wide public engagement initiative.
- Developed policy, capacity-building and practice guides.
- Won international and national awards for public engagement.

Nova Scotia Health Authority

Director, Public Engagement & Community Health Board Support

- Led three teams (Patient and Public Engagement; Community Health; and Patient Relations).
- Developed a patient and public engagement program, engagement training and practice guide.
- Managed a $2 million annual program budget.
- Won international and national awards for public engagement work

Capital Health

Director, Patient and Public Engagement

- Developed a renewed vision and strategy for Voluntary Planning.
- Advised on the modernization and innovation of the organization's processes and overall brand
proposition.
- This was a six-month secondment role.

Voluntary Planning

Project Manager (secondment)

- Supported media relations, issues management and communications planning.
- Led crisis communication planning and response on several challenging issues (including medical
device recalls, infrastructure failures, storm-related emergency closures, medical errors).
- Developed engagement policy, procedures and plans.

Senior Advisor, Communications and Public Engagement

- Supported ministerial and departmental communications and media relations.
- Developed communication plans.
- Managed media/communications for a major national-level project.

Geoff Wilson