About Us

Leah has over 25 years of experience working at the intersection of communications, organizational change, and cultural transformation. As a former executive at Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan), Leah led both the communications and human… Read full bio

Josef Jurkovic is a founder of the CEC. He has over 40 years of public and private sector experience across diverse areas of internal and external communications, media relations, stakeholder and public consultations, branding and marketing. In over… Read full bio

Owner and Principal Consultant at SMRT Solution Consulting Inc., Basia Radomski brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications and journalism to her consulting work. She started her career at the CBC as a writer and producer,… Read full bio

Bernard Gauthier, PhD brings more than 40 years of professional communication experience to each workshop he presents. His work includes communication of all kinds in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Training participants across the… Read full bio

Owner and Principal Consultant at SMRT Solution Consulting Inc., Bill McKee is a sought-after trainer, facilitator, and business strategist, leveraging his emergency management experience to help organizations build resilience and sustainability in… Read full bio

Carolyn Brown is a science and medicine writer and editor with 18 years’ experience at Canada’s two largest scientific publishers—Canadian Medical Association publications and NRC Research Press. She has written everything from speeches for Cabinet… Read full bio

Chris Cobb is a multi-award winning journalist and author, Chris enjoyed a 25-plus year career at the Ottawa Citizen and was a long-time member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery. He travelled broadly on many overseas assignments. Parallel… Read full bio

Claude Panneton is a former public service executive with over 20 years of communications experience including risk and crisis communications, issues management, strategic communications and oversight of departmental public environment analysis,… Read full bio

Dan Hebert is the special advisor to the Director General of Communications at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). He is also currently leading the CRA’s efforts to adopt of generative AI as a communication tool and leads the government-wide community… Read full bio

Don Smith is a former broadcast journalist and Government of Canada communications executive. During his ten years in radio Don produced two highly successful talk shows at CFRA Ottawa, and later was senior reporter for CKOY/CKBY Ottawa and a… Read full bio

Women-owned and 100% Canadian, H+H is a newly launched bilingual design and marketing studio committed to empowering organizations with the tools needed to drive meaningful change. Offering research, strategy, design, and digital services all in one… Read full bio

Scott Hannant is a seasoned communicator with extensive experience at the executive-level. Scott has worked across the corporate, government, academic and not-for-profit-sectors. Prior to stepping away from full time work, he was a director with the… Read full bio

Sylvia's passion is to help people figure out what they want to say – and say it effectively. For over a decade, she has worked as a Presentation Skills trainer and facilitator to help people get their message across to various audiences, in Canada… Read full bio

Tim Weil is a former Director General in the federal government with 30 years experience developing and managing a wide range of communications plans and activities. He began his career on Parliament Hill, where he developed a strong passion for… Read full bio