Haley Barton

• Creates, manages and leads project management, change management and communication plans for transformational organization redesign and development projects in alignment with corporate strategy.
• Collaborates with senior leaders to understand learning needs. Offers innovative, achievable solutions to identified gaps and and utilizes the 70/20/10 model to prepare and design custom workshop materials and tools to support leadership development and achieve talent management outcomes.
• Plans and implements organization wide focus groups, workshops, surveys and interviews. Analyzes data to create themes. Prepares reports and presents findings to senior leaders.
• Builds strong, trusting relationships with Organization Development leadership, HR Business Partner team, and senior business leaders and maintains confidentiality when handling sensitive matters.

• Led a cross-functional, multidisciplinary leadership advisory team in the implementation of a departmental strategic priority involving organization redesign, business capabilities and the creation of new leadership development initiatives to achieve strategic outcomes.
• Built strong, effective relationships with a group of internal and external multidisciplinary partners to lead and manage the implementation of a complex, Regional substance use multi-year strategy.
• Effectively and positively led, and provided conflict resolution for a diverse team of Public Health volunteers supporting the rapidly changing COVID-19 response.
• Role modeled a standard of excellence with respect to leadership and employee engagement and fostered camaraderie to contribute to supporting the mental health, wellbeing, and happiness of employees.

• Produced and delivered effective Public Health communication materials to support leaders in the the ever changing COVID-19 response. Communication products included: daily FAQ updates, creation of executive presentations with speaking notes, supports for leadership quarterly town halls, and employee trainings with resources.
• Worked in a fast-paced environment to quickly respond to inquiries by interpreting and synthesizing complex information from a variety of sources and developing clear and concise public facing messaging for community partners, external business owners, and community members at large.
• Represented Public Health communications on key cross-functional teams and projects to provide strategic input that aligned with organizational priorities.

• Led the establishment of a community-based parent engagement committee to increase departmental knowledge of culturally relevant and appropriate approaches that would assist diverse, vulnerable, and marginalized populations to improve health and health equity outcomes amongst Niagara families.
• Co-led the implementation of a divisional social media strategy by chairing the social media committee, collaborating with coworkers to plan and post engaging content for the target audience, reviewing analytics, and making weekly improvements to meet objectives.
• Utilized strong interpersonal skills to foster team engagement to successfully manage the needs of multiple stakeholders while implementing an evidence-based parenting program.

• Provided leadership to all aspects of recruitment, on-boarding, orientation, training, performance, and feedback for paid staff, students, and volunteers within the youth engagement program.
• Fostered a team culture of trust, respect, collaboration, and fun to meet and exceed team goals and objectives.
• Worked collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to successfully implement and evaluate a Regional multi-year tobacco prevention strategy.
• Built strong partnerships and reputational credibility to successfully lead a diverse group of external stakeholders to plan, implement and evaluate a unique Provincial social branding campaign.
• Utilized adult learning principals to successfully create and facilitate engaging trainings for diverse individuals, groups and communities requested by stakeholders from across Ontario to promote health and reduce health inequities. Continuous improvements were incorporated based on attendee feedback.
• Coached team members through complex problems and challenges of day-to-day work.

Additional Project

• Collaborated with a team of senior leaders and human resources staff to design, conduct, document, and analyze focus groups, surveys, and interviews in the development of a corporate people strategy.
• Championed employee engagement across the corporation by educating and training staff at all levels, role-modeling and advocating for organizational culture shifts, and connecting to corporate strategic objectives.
• Led all aspects of a divisional culture change project which included planning and conducting face-to-face consultations and focus groups with leaders and employees, data analysis, strategy creation, communication and work plan development and implementation, conducting continuous improvement, staff training, managing the people side of change, engaging stakeholders, and maintaining buy-in. This project received attention from senior leadership in other divisions – project plans, findings, lessons learned and recommendations for expansion were presented to executive leadership.