RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT - Through the Years

RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT
THROUGH THE YEARS
2009
Starting in March, I was hired on a contract as the Organizational Change Management Team
Lead on the $27M Education Information System (EIS) project within the Education Directorate of
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). Once again, I was busy ‘pumping out paper’ and
completed the following:
• Developed an Organizational Change Management Strategy and tactical Plan.
• Developed and executed a Communications Strategy and Plan.
• Developed leadership education material.
• Developed and disseminated newsletters, communiqués, letters, and surveys.
• Developed a Training Strategy.
The job lasted 9 months (was supposed to be 3 years) at which time I was replaced by a
Department employee, which would have been a lot cheaper for them. Perhaps, though, I was
‘let go’ because I really didn’t ‘play well’ with one of the elderly women who was also on the
project and was very close to the female Director responsible for it. I’m certain they conspired
to get rid of me.
While still in California, Tim was headhunted (that process never ends for him) for the position of
Regional Director of Supply Chain and Customer Service in Western Canada for Coca Cola.
He would be moved to Calgary from California in June where he would rent a nice home, which
I didn’t see (work got in the way) but Sharon managed to.
Tim was an Olympic Torch
runner this year, selected by
Coke, so was one of the
privileged few (many!!) in the
country. He ran a short stretch
in Nanaimo, B.C. and was
cheered on by Laura and
thousands of his fans!!
Chris is keeping exceptionally
busy in his ERT career and
was fortunate enough to get a
one-week training visit to Paris
where an international group of
‘men in black’ ran around
playing good cop/bad cop and
generally having a lark (but working nevertheless – no tourist
stuff!!). He has been kept busy (always late at night/early
morning) with high-intensity ‘kick-ins’ of the ‘residences’ of
the criminal element, mainly in Montreal. Josée continues her gainful employment as a wiretap
transcriber and so also helps keep us all safe and sound from the morons that abound in our
population.
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