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6. 2012 OVATION Awards Winning Entries - IABC/Toronto

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communication programs related to pension, retirement and stock savings plans, as well as traditional<br />

and flex benefit plans. She currently works at one <strong>of</strong> Canada’s leading financial institutions, where she<br />

established the communication function in one <strong>of</strong> its key support functions, and oversees multi‐faceted<br />

communication programs related to changes in salary and incentive pay, performance management,<br />

career development, employee satisfaction surveys, and talent recruitment. She is a past Benefits<br />

Canada Communication <strong>Awards</strong> winner, as well as a Gold Quill and Ovation Award winner. She served<br />

for several years on the IABC/Toronto Board, and has judged for Ovation and chapter management<br />

award programs since becoming accredited in 2008.<br />

Cheryl Fletcher, ABC<br />

Director, Internal Communications<br />

RBC Insurance<br />

Cheryl Fletcher, ABC, is Senior Manager, Internal & Leadership Communications for RBC Insurance. She<br />

has more than 20 years <strong>of</strong> communications experience in a wide variety <strong>of</strong> roles at RBC and Rogers.<br />

Cheryl has been a member <strong>of</strong> IABC since 1995 and earned her ABC in 2010. She has a passion for<br />

organizational change communications and co‐authored the IABC manual “The Complete Guide to<br />

Integrated Change Communication: Best Practices for Major Announcements”. Cheryl has two IABC<br />

Silver Leaf <strong>Awards</strong> <strong>of</strong> Merit and three IABC Toronto Ovation <strong>Awards</strong> <strong>of</strong> Excellence.<br />

Nancy Gale, ABC<br />

Director, Strategic Communications<br />

Mississagua Halton CCAC<br />

Nancy Gale Director, Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Management Mississauga Halton<br />

Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) Nancy Gale is an award‐winning and accredited communicator<br />

through the International Association <strong>of</strong> Business Communicators (IABC). Nancy manages the<br />

Mississauga Halton CCAC’s strategic communications planning and stakeholder management to position<br />

and promote the brand <strong>of</strong> this community‐based health service provider at the vanguard <strong>of</strong> providing<br />

quality home care. Nancy has broad experience as a marketing communication pr<strong>of</strong>essional in both<br />

the private and public sectors ‐ at all levels. Prior to joining the Mississauga Halton CCAC, Nancy served<br />

as Marketing Communications director for Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga; communications lead<br />

for the Toronto District School Board; at Bell Canada's enterprise divisions; and both the Ontario and<br />

federal governments. A recipient <strong>of</strong> an IABC Ovation Award <strong>of</strong> Excellence in 2007, Nancy also won Bell<br />

Canada's Marketing Excellence Award and IP World's Best in Show Award in 2004.<br />

Ellen Gardner, ABC<br />

Principal<br />

Write to Know Communications<br />

Ellen Gardner is an accredited and award‐winning communicator. She started her own business, Write<br />

to Know Communications, in 1998, and began doing a series <strong>of</strong> maternity leave contracts in a wide<br />

variety <strong>of</strong> sectors and businesses. She managed internal communications and philanthropy at Hewlett<br />

Packard, did internal communications and community relations at Honeywell, marketing and public<br />

relations in family health and long term care at the Region <strong>of</strong> Peel, and communications for the business<br />

school at KPMG. Ellen is currently the Marketing and Communications Manager at HIROC (Healthcare<br />

Insurance Reciprocal <strong>of</strong> Canada). She is still actively engaged with her freelance clients and in her <strong>of</strong>ftime<br />

is an IABC mentor, is on a dragonboat team, sits on the board <strong>of</strong> Best Start Peel and is a volunteer

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