Senior Consultant - Circular Economy

• Jan 2022 - Present

Founder & Executive Director

• Feb 2020 - Present

Impact Zero is a Toronto-based incorporated non-profit that I founded in early 2020. We’re growing the circular economy by empowering passionate people to bring business and community-led solutions to life.Responsibilities: Set the organization’s vision and direction, Lead a high-performing operations team (paid and volunteer), Build external relationships with local governments and private organizations, Manage financials in collaboration with our Treasurer, Fundraise $100,000 with the BoD, Track progress towards our impact and financial goals.Accomplishments:- Retain and manage a high-performing team of 30+ volunteers (Operations and BoD) to ensure organizational success- Lead the team to generate $50,000 (50% of our 2021 fundraising goal by October) in government funding, individual donations, corporate sponsorships, and sales revenue- Develop, Run, and Grow our Impact Project Accelerator where I act as a mentor to accelerate innovative circular economy start-ups in a diverse industries since March 2021, attracting municipal and federal attention- Lead our education team to share well-researched comms with >150 sustainability professionals, entrepreneurs, and sustainability enthusiasts every day in the Impact Zero Network- Host & Manage our podcast, Inner Circle: Making the Impossible, Possible where I interview leaders from high profile sustainability professionals to small startup owners, growing it to 4,000+ downloads in the first year

Circular Economy Consultant

• Jul 2020 - Jan 2022

After receiving requests from businesses to support the identification and implementation of possible sustainability initiatives in their business, I formally incorporated my firm. We now focus on informing & empowering companies to find cost-savings and revenue-generating ESG opportunities specifically tailored to them.Accomplishments:- Designed and operationalized an online zero-plastic waste e-commerce site for Bare Market in Toronto, enabling them to offer at-home deliveries- Worked with a paint manufacturer to reduce their hazardous waste by 71% compared to 2018 levels, and go from a 100% disposable packaging solution to a 90% circular one- Present at a variety of companies highlighting opportunities that can exist when their employees feel empowered to take action

Associate, Environmental Affairs

• Sep 2019 - Jul 2020

I worked on the pilot of an Environmental & Social Risk assessment tool used to assess financing deals, and worked on the core team developing the Bank’s first ever ESG/Sustainable Finance strategy. I managed the execution of ESG initiatives and ESG product development work in collaboration with senior management across Retail, Small Business Banking, Commercial Banking, Direct Investing and TD Insurance.Accomplishments:- Educated our retail partners about the financial impacts of the climate crisis, using my knowledge in risk assessment and my ability to communicate with TD Insurance actuaries to gather reliable data- Successfully advocated to include circular economy in the ESG strategy to address C-Suite desires to reduce resource extraction, by educating the team about how transitioning to a circular economy is how we reduce extraction- Project Manage our ESG disclosures: Led our RE100 and CDP disclosures, and supported on our DJSI disclosure

Insider Risk Analyst

• Nov 2017 - Sep 2019

I was recruited into the newly-established Insider Risk Management Program to operationalize and optimize theoretical processes to aggregate a growing library of data used to identify employees at high-risk of committing insider fraud.Accomplishments:- Created a macro-enabled tool that made managing our large (>1500) dataset possible, and enabling rapid expansion of the program to satisfy management's desire to expand across a number of high-risk employee groups- Created a quality assurance macro to ensure that manually-inputted data is complete and produces accurate risk flags. This tool was critical to ensure we didn’t miss flags or escalate false flags- Became the SME and final opinion for any data, process, or communications-related questions for the Program

Process Analyst - Contract

• Apr 2017 - Nov 2017

- Effectively automate tedious team processes or tasks that require significant resources - Consult various teams to identify projects that require automation: conduct a cost-benefit analysis using estimated time saved, number of people impacted, and financial savings to prioritize each requested project; create a recommendation list for executive approval- Craft monthly executive reports, PowerPoint presentations, and data visualizations based on various stakeholder updatesAccomplishments:- Created an Excel program in VBA that makes a monthly scorecard showing all activity reported to the bank's incident reporting center: separated regional reporting, trending month-over-month, and visuals for monthly presentations - Quality Assurance (QA) Dashboards: created forms for managers to track all employees' QA scores; and generated an Executive dashboard aggregating each team's QA scores - Third-party Vendor Questionnaire: created a password-protected, comprehensive (over 100 questions) and dynamic Excel form to send to TD's vendors to evaluate their security/fraud risk. Wrote logical VBA scripts to continually update the form's structure based on vendor's responses, which would then show or hide questions as required- TD's Corporate Security Clearance Data Master List and Forms: Automated a previously manual and error-prone process by creating new joint Excel and Outlook Macros, to process to collect, store, and update security clearance data from all TD corporate locations across Canada. Using macros, this new workbook enables both data input (from various disparate sources) and automated export of data in a completed form and email- Vendor Invoice Validation Macro-enabled Template: Created a template that reconciles vendor invoices and flags errors (e.g. invoices for services not rendered) to be further researched- Create Access Databases linked to SharePoint to maximize sharing ability and facilitate real-time updates

Co-op Student

• Apr 2015 - Apr 2017

First Co-op- Work with American counterparts to coordinate settling severely outstanding payments to US vendors- Fix broken processes to ensure these issues don't happen again in the futureAccomplishments- Automated a previously manual invoicing process (i.e. transferring data from PDF invoices to Excel), effectively speeding up the invoice reconciliation process by 500%.- Cleared six months of backlogged invoices in two months; automated process could do this is seconds, versus the six months. Since implementation, invoice payments are up-to-dateSecond Co-op- Insecure/Unarmed Branches Cost-savings Project: led the project by analyzing data from various sources to find the cause of a common error involving multiple external and internal stakeholders; if unarmed/insecure branch was due to vendors, TD would then claw-back costs- Created a program using VBA to filter and link quantitative and qualitative data, then created a daily visual report using the linked data- Wrote Executive briefing notes describing the issue and recommendations for resolution- Create presentations for each vendor outlining the results, explaining their involvement in the errors with the goal of clawing-back costs

Founder

• Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

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Residence Advisor

• Sep 2014 - Apr 2015

- Mentor a floor of 26 first year students as well as plan and execute a monthly quota of floor programming.- Work alongside an upper year student volunteer who lives in the residence.- Provide leadership and other growing opportunities for the floor leadership team.- Be on call 9 nights per month with a team of other residence staff to ensure the residents are upholding the residence rules and understandings.- Establish a diverse, open and accepting floor community for all residents to feel welcome and secure- Establish personal relationships with each residents to ensure genuine trust and support.

Senior Counsellor

• Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

- Program a variety of potential programs to use during down time for campers to remain occupied.- Lead a group of 20 children aged 8-13 through a constant camp related games and activities.- Monitor an assigned bus stop in the morning and at night keeping track of all of the children at that stop. (attendance ranged from 5-15 children at a stop)- Monitor an assigned bus route with 2 other counsellors, continuing programming on the bus. (busses were usually full to 60 children) - Program a variety of potential programs to use during down time for campers to remain occupied.- Lead a group of 20 children aged 8-13 through a constant camp related games and activities.- Monitor an assigned bus stop in the morning and at night keeping track of all of the children at that stop. (attendance ranged from 5-15 children at a stop)- Monitor an assigned bus route with 2 other counsellors, continuing programming on the bus. (busses were usually full to 60 children)