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Areas of Smith Knox expertise:
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Acquisitions,
mergers and divestitures |
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Business
start-up & strategy development |
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Corporate
strategy development & implementation |
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Organizational
development |
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Organizational design &
corporate
restructuring |
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Human Resource strategy & program design |
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Marketing and sales strategy & program development |
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New
product development |
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Executive
coaching |
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Project
planning and implementation |
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Compensation strategy & programs |
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Training and performance management |
Smith Knox professionals are
executives...
- with 'big picture' perspective
- with "hands-on" skill as implementers, mentors
and leaders,
- who provide bench strength, hit the ground running and
focus on results,
- with end to end experience in
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 issue identification,
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innovative solution
development,
- implementation,
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productivity
improvement, and
-
transferring
new skills.
- who
allow businesses to
- stay
lean,
- minimize
cost and risk,
- enhance
productivity,
- improve processes,
- deal
with sudden or temporary vacancies, and
- manage
business crises.
Patricia Smith
 Pat
has over 25 years' experience in human resources, communications, public & media
relations, administration and information technology gained in
corporate, entrepreneurial and institutional environments. She has proven executive and general management skills developed in the financial services, high
technology, non-profit, service and manufacturing sectors, in international and domestic
organizations.
In the positions of VP Human Resources
& Organizational Solutions,
Senior VP HR and Communications, Senior VP Corporate Resource Services and
Senior VP Corporate Resources, Pat has demonstrated her ability to provide strategic solutions and
creative leadership
strength to
organizations in periods of high-level change, uncertainty, rapid growth, merger,
acquisition and divesture. She is process oriented and driven by a focus
on the bottom line.
Pat has planned and managed a significant
number of large organizational restructurings.
She also has extensive experience in analyzing the service delivery
capabilities of organizational support functions and has successfully
realigned and restructured them to provide alignment with organizational goals,
improved service levels and increased levels of satisfaction in client
business operations.
She has been a senior volunteer with the
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and a member of CBCF’s Ontario Chapter
Executive Committee since 1998. She is currently CBCF Ontario Chapter
Past Chair, and has served as an active member of
the Chapter’s Allocations, Community Development Advisory, Professional
Advisory, and Communications Advisory Committees. She served as Chapter Chair
from 2002 through 2005. Pat served as a member of the CBCF National Board for four years, and as
Chair of the CBCF National Human Resource Committee for three years.
In
September 2005, Pat became a volunteer citizen member of the
Steering Committee of the Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition.
Philip Knox
Philip
brings considerable experience to the clients of Smith Knox. He is a highly polished, energized professional
with over 20 years' business management experience in marketing, sales, human resource development, coaching and
business development gained in a variety of organizations, crossing a variety
of industries.
In his consulting and corporate roles of Vice
President Sales, and Vice President Sales & Marketing, he has demonstrated the ability to provide marketing,
sales and technical projects with leadership, team
building and project management ~ experience acquired in international corporations, mergers and acquisitions,
start-ups and green field venture capital projects. He is an extremely innovative, creative process builder with a rare and unique marketing, technical
and profit and loss orientation.
Philip believes strongly in
"giving back" to his city and his community. As a volunteer he is actively involved, focusing on quality of life,
health and environmental issues and the arts.
He served as co-Chair of the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant
Neighbourhood Liaison Committee and as a member of the Toronto Waterfront Development Corporation's Portlands Community Advisory Committee.
In 2005, Philip was
appointed by Toronto City Council as Chair of the Community Environmental
Assessment Team (CEAT), which is dealing with the difficult problem of
Toronto's waste. He is also a
member of the Board of ShakespeareWorks, an organization whose mission
is to inspire students and teachers by making accessible the extraordinary
breadth of passion, drama, humour, poetry, and prose of
Shakespeare's plays.
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