Adler University

McMaster University

Sheridan College

University of Toronto

Queen's University

Leadership and Culture Consultant ~ Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator ~ Personal Resilience Practitioner

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Carolyn Swora

Workplace Culture Architect & Owner

Do the values your organization espouses match the values actually being enacted daily by employees?  Chances are they're not.  Using the Barrett Values Centre Cultural Transformation Tools, we help you clearly understand the values driving behaviour in your organization and help you align them to the espoused values.

Barrett Values Centre

Cultural Transformation Tools Certified Practitioner

What do key business metrics like productivity, absenteeism, safety, customer service, and sales have in common? They are all dependent and driven by employee engagement. Employee engagement builds through relationships and relationships build through conversations. Begin building engagement, one conversation at a time.The Actionable Conversations approach is deceptively simple: a three-stage process (Conversation->Action->Insight) that happens on the job, around real organizational issues in just an hour per conversation. Our 48+ Actionable Workshops are easy to run, outcome-based, and drive measurable change through a built-in accountability loop. Benefits:•	Simultaneously develops both leaders and their team members•	Your business becomes the focus of the conversation•	Build relationships among peers as they participate in a shared experience•	Turns passive, event-based learning into dynamic, real-time discussion with opportunities for coaching

Actionable.co

Authorized Partner Actionable Conversations

The model brings together 500 women (called Activators) in each cohort, who contribute $1100 each as an Act of Radical Generosity.  The money is pooled together and loaned out at low interest to 5 women-led Ventures selected by the Activators.  All Ventures are revenue generating with export potential and creating a better world through their business model or their product and service. The loans are paid back over 5 years and then loaned out again, creating a perpetual fund which we will pass on to our daughters and granddaughters.I’ve personally signed up as an Activator and hope you will join me in helping grow this global initiative.   Over 150 regions have expressed interest in bringing SheEO to their area. Isn’t that exciting? Being part of the Activator community connects you to an amazing network of women that can help you grow your own business or enhance your personal growth plans.

SheEO™

Activator

1-DEGREE/Shift

Shift Facilitator

Lead Link

Your organization is a collection of individuals and teams. Their level of trust and connection with one another – regardless of title, role or level – shapes your shared culture.We look at the organization through this lens, identifying patterns or pockets of behaviour that may be strengthening or undermining the collective.With an understanding of these patterns, we design organization-wide experiences that shift the collective consciousness, and the collective way of being and working together./SHIFT your consciousness. /SHIFT your team. /SHIFT your organization.

Senior Associate

Twenty One Toys is an award-winning social enterprise that uses toys to teach empathy,failure and other key 21st century skills in schools and offices worldwide. First featuredon TEDx, their multi-award winning Empathy Toy is in over 45 countries and even TIMEmagazine has praised it as a future technology!As an Associate Facilitator at Twenty One Toys, I help the Twenty One Toys facilitationteam when they deliver large workshops involving over 30 participants. During theseworkshops, I am responsible for supporting Twenty One Toys Master Facilitators as theygo through a series of game scenarios with the Empathy Toy, which are designed tochallenge players’ communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills. As amember of this amazing community, I have discovered the versatility of the EmpathyToy. This is why, I also use this powerful tool, with permission from Twenty One Toys, inmy own facilitation practice as well.You can learn more about Twenty One Toys here: <a href="http://twentyonetoys.com">twentyonetoys.com</a>

Twenty One Toys

Associate Facilitator

Ceridian LifeWorks Canada

Facilitator

- Constructed governance framework and embedded sustainable processes to ensure regulatory compliance and effective monitoring of pricing and contracts- Leading a team in developing strategic plans for pricing, contracts, trade relations and customer service while ensuring excellence in execution- Managing various change projects (from culture to systems) with my team, the division and the enterprise to ensure customer focus and business performance is maintained

GlaxoSmithKline

Director, Pricing and Key Accounts

- Played a lead role in the business transformation of the Marketing Division by creating a comprehensive change strategy and executing an implementation plan to effectively embed new ways of working- Instilled new performance standards and change management principles into the Marketing division by becoming a globally certified ADP Practitioner (ADP is GSK's Global Change Management Framework).

Chief Of Staff, Marketing

- Studied patient insights, analyzed complex market dynamics and assessed market research trends to create strategy and tactics to drive brand performance- Created a multi-faceted engagement plan for the Canadian salesforce resulting in improved delivery of key selling messages and increased understanding of Brand strategy by the sales representatives.- Contributed to the corporate Business Transformation Strategy through committee participation and advising Senior Management

Product Manager, Advair

- Managed Business performance of over 10 products and created individualized development plans for sales representatives- Embedded a new Sales Call Model with Direct Reports resulting in a deeper understanding of the customer's needs

District Sales Manager, Saskatchewan

- Improved performance of two different territory teams by creating a new culture focused on personal development and team dynamics, resulting in Top Sales Manager Awards in 2007 and 2009. - Created and implemented a Development Program for Sales Professionals across the country aspiring to achieve the highest GSK performance level (S2) - Developed and embedded change management plans for new systems and reporting structures in the province

DIstrict Sales Manager, Ontario

- Promoted over 10 products to Family Physicians and Pharmacists- By building an integrated customer plan with territory teammates and improving our tactical execution, the overall market share for our Top 3 products increased

Territory Sales Representative

- Managed team through changes in corporate structure and created a new mandate focused on program standardization and efficient execution of education programs for physicians.- Identified requirements and defined scope for new computerized program tracking system

Manager, Continuing Health Education

Developed innovative continuing education programs for the salesforce to implement with physicians resulting in a #1 ranking across the industry as best provider of continuing medical education.

Innovation Leader, CHE

Collaborated with Universities, Family Physicians and Specialists to create informational programs about COPD and Asthma focused on improving patient outcomes.

Program Designer, Continuing Health Education

- Developed strategic partnerships with Patient Advocacy Groups in Respiratory and Migraine.- Created a national education program for family physicians aimed at improving end of life care as part of the GSK Foundation’s commitment to Hospice Palliative Care.

Manager, External Relations

- Developed and implemented student curriculum and volunteer training programs that were used in 34 Canadian offices aimed at increasing business knowledge of elementary and secondary school students.- Created business strategies with volunteer boards and stakeholders to increase the quality and quantity of Junior Achievement programs across Canada.

Junior Achievement of Canada

Manager, Program Development

- Trained over 100 corporate professionals how to effectively deliver Business education programs to students in grade six, seven and eight.- Successfully partnered over 500 volunteers with schools in the Greater Toronto Area to deliver various Junior Achievement programs