Patti lives in Calgary, AB with her husband. She has three grown children and is President of our company. Listed as one of the World’s Top 30 Leadership Gurus for 2010 by Leadership International and a member of the Canadian Society for Training and Development, her mantra is ‘Happy Workplaces Succeed’.

A former leader of a team of specialists installing control systems world-wide, Patti has worked in Turkey and Egypt enjoying international business with celebrated cultural diversity. Patti is a speaker, trainer and visionary strategist working with companies and individuals to realize their career, company and business dreams.

Contact Patti at www.strategicsense.ca or book her to speak at www.pattiblackstaffe.com

Suzie Poirier, is Strategic Sense’s top virtual executive assistant and rocks our clients with her high energy and positive attitude. Her capacity in business environments facilitates the creation, knowledge, and proficiency for service oriented and client driven companies. She is an experienced professional and entrepreneur in her own right with over 27 years in business administration and customer relationship management.

Suzie is detail oriented and laser-focused on the specific needs of each customer, tailoring her service offering to meet individual wants, needs, requirements, and time constraints. She consistently delivers the highest quality results, with great efficiency, and provides dynamic project management across a diverse and global client base.

Kathie began her involvement in the community by spearheading numerous sporting and fund-raising events. Building on these experiences; in 2006, Kathie moved on to combine her display merchandising and a travel industry background to establish her event management company;  Kathie Madden Events.

In 2008/2009 Kathie was invited to represent the event industry as a participant in an international project being developed by Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council in Ottawa, Ontario to assist in building occupational standards and the competency framework for event professionals.  The result of this project; the International Competency Standards for Event Management is about to be published in 2009. In addition she has sat on a National Advisory Committee with CTHRC developing content for the 2008 HR Forum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Velma is a self taught web designer with skills spanning over 6 years of web development.  With an expertise in custom WordPress designs, her specialty is creating easy to update and manage blog sites that look like static websites but offer so much more.  With research and creative talent, Velma cares about the client, the designs and the functionality as if they were her own websites.

Have a vision of your ideal site? Looking for some functionality you heard about but are not sure what to do?  Chances are Velma will figure out how to make it work.