My passion is building genuine and lasting connections and supporting Leaders in doing the same within their teams. I light up when others have 'ah-ha' moments based on something I’ve shared. I am at my best when helping organizations address their pressing people priorities, operating at the intersect of setting strategic direction and building and leading execution plans and teams. Engaged employees are at the core of organizational success. I understand first hand the difficulty in building systems that work, the complexity in creating an adaptive people strategy that enables companies to thrive. I simplify that process, working collaboratively as part of Senior Leadership Teams and Boards to enable organizations to benefit from the rewards of operating people-first. Not only am I people focused, but I am a highly strategic and operational leader. In the past I served as the CEO of a tech start-up, for which I was shortlisted for the Business Leader of the Year - Women in IT Awards in 2019. I am excellent at transforming business ambiguity and challenges into clarity and opportunity using my years of expertise as a trained Management Consultant at Deloitte. I have global experience, ranging across Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, and am fluent in both Spanish and English. I bring my experience in Management Consulting, People Strategy, Start-ups and Tech in conjunction with my understanding of different environments from living in 15+ countries, to create and deliver impactful solutions that truly fit market needs. In my spare time, I am a Speaker and Ambassador for Manitoba Women in Tech, the CMO and part of the Executive Team of TechWPG and coach start-ups on how to create winning pitches. I love engaging a crowd by sharing business expertise and my personal experiences. Specialties include: • Leading the People & Culture Function in an Organization • Operationalizing People & Culture Teams and Objectives • Leading and Measuring People Analytics • Organizational Change Management and Process Re-design • Talent Vision & Execution • Business Strategy, Business Transformation and Business Model Innovation • Public Speaking • Strategic Partnerships, Relationship Building and Stakeholder Management • Executive and Corporate Communication • Complex Problem Solving: Mixing Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking and Analytical Thinking • Senior Leadership and Board Level Experience • Workshop Design and Facilitation • Start-up Pitching If you'd like to get in touch, send me a message via LinkedIn!

Freelance Photographer, Designer and Content Strategist

Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and a professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Columbia University and an AB from Brown University. She is author of the book You Have More Influence Than You Think (2021, Norton). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and other outlets, and her research has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and on NPR's Hidden Brain. Her research focuses broadly on social influence and the psychology of compliance and consent. In particular, she examines the extent to which people recognize the influence they have over others in various interpersonal interactions, including when asking for help, suggesting that someone engage in unethical behavior, and making romantic advances.

B2B brand strategist and creative planner with 25 years’ marketing experience helping businesses to strengthen their propositions in a more emotional, authentic and audience-centric way. At Transmission, I lead our Brand Services division, responsible for developing distinctive, high-impact strategies, creative ideas and campaigns that accelerate brand awareness, engagement and consideration. Alongside our client programmes, I've published a number of B2B focused research reports, including “The State of B2B Brand Building in 2023” and “Closing the CMO-CFO Brand Value Gap in B2B” and the launch of the first-ever B2B Brand Health Index for high-growth industries.

Vanessa is a creative, intentional and caring wellness entrepreneur focusing on bettering women’s lives through community building and specialized events with expert therapists and health professionals. With 15 years experience in social media and communications across many industries – TV, digital, retail, advertising, music touring and academia – Vanessa understands the power of connection and storytelling. She founded Flower Girls Meet while struggling with health issues which affected her physical and mental health. She wanted to bring women together to discuss the issues they faced in order to achieve healing. In 2023, Vanessa created Bring Flowers to Work, a new offering from her company, Flower Girls Meet to improve employee health, retention, and well-being.

I am a professional work in progress. My goal in anything I do is to spread warmth, passion, compassion, and a spritz of humor to those around me. People first. Here’s a glimpse of me in my self-taught, low budget element ✌️ https://www.screencast.com/users/vgarrabrant/folders/Camtasia%20Studio/media/f7eb860d-d43b-4abc-b59c-0a56db9e7421