Antoinette Ellis

Duties and Responsibilities: Coaching: o Guided Arts Integration Specialist Certification learners through their arts integration learning program, ensuring understanding and successful completion of requirements. o Host virtual workshops per intensive, offering practical guidance and collaborative learning opportunities. Event Facilitation: o Collaborated with program organizers to plan and execute successful events. o Developed all necessary resources to accompany specific facilitation sessions. o Actively participated and supported learners throughout the entirety of events. General Faculty Contributions: • Actively participated in all relevant meetings and training sessions led by the CEO or Chief Academic Officer. • Frequently engaged with the community group to foster collaboration and share expertise. Performance Excellence: • Recognized for unique skills, abilities, and experiences that consistently contributed to the success of the program and its learners. • Maintained high responsiveness, efficiency, and dedication to learner success, ensuring alignment with the organization’s mission and goals.

- Supervise a team of contract staff to meet the operational objectives of the organization - Steward a dashboard of operational KPIs and report to the board on a monthly basis - Work with programs coordinator to track number of programs, participants and impact - Work with membership administrator to track Ambassador recruitment and engagement, including outreach of potential Ambassadors and follow up to ensure their success - Work with the communications coordinator to track engagement with various partners via social media, email lists and other channels - Work with financial administrator to track expenses and forecasting and support with reporting for grants - Support Ambassadors with developing partnerships with organizations in their community, including identifying potential community organizations to partner with and maintaining a database of partners - Lead the recruitment, onboarding and supervision of interns and other contract staff for the organization

ACE & Co. is a social enterprise that works to recognize, nurture and empower the women community by encouraging them to take up professions in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) As the founder & CEO of the firm, my efforts are centralized towards utilizing education as a tool to help female students & professionals find promising professional avenues across STEAM fields As part of the ACE & Co. portfolio, I lead and manage various service offerings including skill building, placement sessions, STEAM based experiential workshops & presentations

Professional speaker and facilitator for public, private sector and non-profit organizations. Speaking topics include but not limited to STEAM awareness, Diversity and Inclusion, Abuse against women and children. Personal Coach and workshops for public speaking, presentation skills, leadership skills and etc… Voice Over Talent for commercials and narration

As an Educator in residence, I provide both digital and written content for The Institute of Arts Integration and STEAM in the form of workshops, articles and voice over work.

• Assigned newly developed role in Canada to design and implement CSR programs and activities in the geography • Create multiyear plans for community engagement, including raising awareness about the organization and development of engagement pathways employee volunteers to support CSR initiatives in the areas of health, education, and environment • Execute CSR roadshows across Canada, introducing CSR programs and activities and focus areas to over 2500 + associates across 110 accounts • Raise STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) awareness through the launch of goIT, a student technology program for ages 9-16yrs, exposing over 6000 students to the impact of technology in their world, through training/mentoring programs • Partner and maintain relationships with external stakeholders (United Way, Toronto District School Board, Heart and Stoke Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society) supporting their initiatives through organization of volunteer programs and fundraising • Track and submit over $500,000 worth of donation matching for all fund raising events supported by groups of employees within the organization to external causes • Develop marketing and communication including but not limited to; activity summaries, recognition pieces and internal messages strategies and implementation for all engagement efforts, maintaining outreach and interest across the country • Achieve awards of recognition for innovative strategy and business integration of CSR programs • Mobilize pro-bono multiple technology teams to develop resources to support STEM education and mentoring

• Full service event management company servicing clients in Canada and Internationally hosting over 200 events ranging from corporate and social functions • Worked directly with clients to design their event vision from inception to onsite execution; including all logistics, site inspections, programming and negotiations • Collaborated and partnered with other industry professionals, negotiating for best rates, achieving production of events under budget • Developed vendor management program allowing for tracking of services and customer satisfaction increasing the ROI • Created pre, during and post-production schedules including budget analysis in collaboration with the clients, ensuring effective use of resources • Set clear, measurable performance expectations for the events and staff • Maintained ownership of creating a culture of passion, delivering the ultimate customer experience through engagement and empowerment • Defined contingency plan, outlining the risk management for company and events • Designed, developed and executed Élan Cachet’s largest corporate event for the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry for over 600 industry professionals and raised over $100,000 in donations for community funding

• Engaged in outreach to engage public, private and non-profit service providers to promote enrolment in the Canada Learning bond to employees, parents and clients who are eligible for the RESP • Organized and hosted training sessions and workshops for staff, agency leads and clients with organizations throughout the Peel Region to create awareness about government funding available and accessibility to said funds • Worked in collaboration with other non-profits to train staff on educating the general public on RESP incentive • Developed a partnership with local financial institutions and Service Canada to set up community events, allowing target audience to enrol in the Canadian Learning Bond • Created Volunteer Manual, Volunteer Job description and led volunteer engagement and recruitment efforts • Developed post analysis and follow up to support non-profits engaged in program • Established, designed and facilitated presentation skills workshops for audiences of 10-30 participants

• Acted as operations liaison for implementation, client services, sales and corporate action issues in a dynamic environment and presented concepts to potential clients • Responded to multiple client inquiries, managing client expectations