Healthcare

Dr. Bob Bell, MDCM, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, FRCSE (hon). Robert Bell served as Ontario’s Deputy Minister of Health from 2014 to 2018. Prior to this role, he worked as President and Chief Executive Officer of University Health Network (UHN) for nine years. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Princess Margaret Hospital, the Chair of Cancer Care Ontario’s Clinical Council and the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. Dr. Bell received his Doctor of Medicine from McGill University, a Master of Science from the University of Toronto and achieved his Fellowship in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1983. He completed training in Orthopaedic Cancer Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University in 1985 and in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2005. Dr. Bell is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American College of Surgeons and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. As an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon, health system executive, clinician-scientist, and educator, Dr. Bell has more than 45 years of healthcare experience. Today, he provides advice to a number of private and public organizations and has published three novels, with all proceeds from these books benefiting UHN foundations.

People Leadership, Sales

Bram is a results-oriented executive leader with more than 25 years’ experience working in sales leadership and executive roles. Most recently, he was group, executive vice-president Americas of a global management consulting firm. He has created growth in turn-around challenges and high growth businesses with private and public companies. He has a proven track record at culture transformation to drive growth through focused people strategies, consistent and scalable approaches, and strong collaborative teams resulting in greater time to value. Bram received his Master of Education from McGill University and completed his Executive Leadership Development certification at the Kellogg School of Management.

Marketing

Brenda Gainer is a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University. She completed her PhD in consumer behaviour and marketing management and has published in a wide variety of business journals. She is a recipient of the Educator of the Year award at Schulich and teaches a variety of MBA and executive courses. Director of the Masters Certificate Program in Marketing Communications Leadership for Schulich ExecEd, she also consults for a variety of organizations in the areas of marketing research, strategic planning and communications.

Marketing

Partner, Gowling Lafleur WLG Brenda's practice has focused exclusively on advertising and marketing for more than 25 years. Her clients include top advertising agencies, Fortune 500 manufacturers, production houses and publishers.

Municipal Sector

Brenda is a strategy and performance specialist responsible for both strategy development and execution in an integrated way, with a specialty in developing SMART initiatives and strategic directions. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt responsible for leading teams in process improvement projects that provide value to the City of Kawartha Lakes, including coaching and mentoring of process owners and champions, team members and Green Belts. Brenda worked through the City of Kawartha Lakes to initiate the planning and strategy phases of SMART city related projects, KPIs and operational shifts. She is a powerful advocate of SMART culture and is a frequent conference presenter on the topic of Lessons Learned from the trenches of SMART integration.

Coaching and Collaboration

Brett brings more than 17 years of experience to the concepts of thinking and organizational intelligence within a business context. He has also served as a Master Trainer and Coach with the EQ-i® (emotional quotient inventory) and is the developer of Emotional Power®, a practical business-based model used to apply the concepts of emotional intelligence in the workplace. Brett is a senior facilitator for the Schulich School of Business at York University and holds a doctorate in Human Organizational Systems.

Financial Acumen, Healthcare

Brian Edmonds is a Chartered Professional Accountant/CA and holds a Master’s Degree in Health Sciences Administration from the University of Michigan. His executive interests include strategic planning, fiscal accountability, the development of new funding models for health care, change management, corporate governance and performance improvement. Brian is currently vice-president, support services and CFO of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, (CAMH) Canada's largest mental-health teaching hospital. CAMH sets the standards for care, research, education and leading social change regarding mental illness. Previously, Brian provided interim executive leadership and strategic consulting advice to a variety of Ontario-based teaching and community, private and public health service providers as these organizations looked for performance improvement opportunities. For seven years prior, Brian was the vice-president, finance of the Trillium Health Centre, where he was instrumental in the introduction of the Strategic Framework and developed tools to enhance decision-making and fiscal accountability. Brian started his healthcare career at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Sales

For more than two decades, Brian Harrison Smith has been a business educator. As an educator for the Schulich School of Business at York University, Brian has applied his wealth of knowledge to occupying the minds of Schulich ExecEd participants who have been fortunate enough to enrol in his areas of expertise such as supply chain and logistics management, key account management and client development, as well as sales skills for managers and sales professionals to name a few. Prior to joining the business education world, Brian was primarily involved with business renewal and new business development. Having always believed in a no-nonsense, results oriented approach to business, Brian enjoyed success at General Electric, Exide Electronics, as well as Maple Leaf Foods. Interestingly enough, it was time spent at General Electric that allowed Brian to enter into education. Participants of Schulich ExecEd will be quick to recognize that much of GE philosophy has stayed with and been introduced through Brian’s presentations and lectures.

Financial Acumen

Brian Metcalfe has been an associate professor in the Goodman School of Business at Brock University, Ontario, for many years, teaching in the international and domestic MBA and undergraduate programs. His programs include International Business, International Marketing, Financial Services Marketing, Services Marketing, Marketing Management and e-Business Strategy. Metcalfe began his career in corporate banking and has a doctorate in financial services marketing. He has researched and produced numerous reports on behalf of PWC, EY and KPMG in 14 different countries including Canada, Australia, China, India, Japan and South Africa. The reports have covered financial services areas such as asset management, corporate banking, investment banking, life and property and casualty insurance, and foreign banks and foreign insurers strategies in emerging markets. He co-authored “Consumer Bank Marketing”, a bilingual text produced for the Institute of Canadian Bankers. He is a former executive vice-president of McConnell International Asset Management Inc., a Toronto-based investment management company, which was acquired by Barclays Bank and has consulted for a wide range of organizations, including Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, Barclays Bank, Sun Life Insurance Company, Equitable Life of Canada and several major consulting firms. He has designed and published more than 30 thought leadership reports on financial services in Sub Saharan Africa on behalf of PWC and KPMG.

Project Management

Bruce Garrod is a PMP with over 25 years experience delivering project and programs. For over 15 years, Bruce has designed, built and delivered project management courses throughout North America as well as in the UK, Caribbean and Asia. At Schulich ExecEd, Bruce is a 3-time award-winning facilitator delivering the Project Cost Management course as part of the Master's Certificate in Project Management program. Bruce is in his second term as an elected official in the Township of Uxbridge, Ontario and the Regional Municipality of Durham. If free time can be created, Bruce will be found camping, motorcycling or enjoying a craft beer with family.

Marketing, Retail

Brynn Winegard is an award-winning professor, speaker and expert in 'Business-Brain Sciences'. Brynn completed her formal education at the Schulich School of Business (MBA, PhD) and McMaster University in Neuroscience and Psychology. After more than a decade in corporate marketing working for Pfizer Nestle and Johnson & Johnson, Brynn has dedicated herself to speaking about “Building Better Business Brains” to groups, organizations and companies, stemming from her research, which combines neuroscience and marketing phenomena – specifically, the brain science of why people buy. Brynn teaches at the Schulich ExecEd, School of Business at York University, Ryerson University and Guelph University. When Brynn isn't speaking professionally, she is a regular on media outlets discussing business phenomena using insights from social and brain sciences. Brynn is a regular contributor on CTV, BNN-TV, CBC, CTV, CBC, CityTV, Global, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and PROFIT Magazine, and has been seen in more than 40 other major media outlets.

As a leader in Design Thinking specializing in User Experience Strategy and Product Design, Candice focuses her career on developing brands and designing products and services with a human-centred approach. Understanding what motivates and influences people's behaviour drives Candice's passion for problem-solving, instilling empathy at each stage. Candice has built and led product design teams, innovation and R&D labs, and product development funnels from ideation to market delivery, grounded in data analysis, user research and a test-and-learn approach. She has worked with organizations to transform their perspectives on product development and service design, led by putting the customer first, data analytics and cultural collaboration. Candice has acquired specialized certifications in her field of work, including CSPO, CUA, and Certified PM. In her spare time, she enjoys travel, golf, real estate and design renovations.

People Leadership

Carley is a manager of learning programs at Rexall Pharmacy Group, where she has 14 years of experience in various positions within the organization. As a graduate of the AMCATD program, her experience allows her to bring a fresh, “real world” perspective to the program and its facilitation. She also is a certified InsideOut Coaching facilitator, Expert Certified in Articulate Storyline 2 and has other certifications from organizations such as Friesen, Kaye and Associates and the Canadian Management Centre. Her experience as a personal trainer in the fitness industry also provides her the opportunity to apply coaching and training techniques in different scenarios.