Creating Opportunity from

Corporate Social Responsibility

You are invited to attend our second interactive open forum discussion as Business and Technology leaders discuss Corporate Social Responsibility.

  You will learn 

• What Corporate Social Responsibility actually means
• How Corporate Social Responsibility will positively impact revenue
• How Corporate Social Responsibility will positively impact recruitment & retention
• How to get involved
• What options are there for Small and Midsized businesses

Speakers include:

Karen Brar - Manager Corporate Events, Softchoice

Susan Elliott - Manager, Corporate Development, Canadian Cancer Society

Susan Elliott joined the Canadian Cancer Society as National Manager, Corporate Development in 2012 where she is responsible for the development and implementation of a National Corporate Engagement strategy aligned to corporate philanthropic giving. This includes identifying prospective nationwide organizations and engaging them through various strategies - corporate giving, cause marketing initiatives, employee engagement, and sponsorships.

Before working in the not-for-profit field, Susan enjoyed a diverse, 20 year career at the CIBC Group of Companies, primarily in the technology and infrastructure areas. During the latter half of her tenure, she served as the voluntary Employee Campaign Chair for CIBC’s annual United Way campaigns. She left her position as Vice President, Executive Services and joined the United Way of Toronto’s annual campaign as a Loaned Representative in 2004. It is through this experience, and through serving as a volunteer on the United Way of GTA’s allocation committee, that she discovered her passion in working with and advocating for not-for-profit organizations.

Susie Ibbotson - Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, Navantis

As the Vice President of Marketing, Susie Ibbotson is responsible for managing and executing all marketing strategy and initiatives including the company brand, marketing campaigns, public relations and sales alignment. She also leads Navantis’s national relationship with Microsoft.  Under Susie’s leadership, Navantis’s marketing efforts have achieved global recognition from Microsoft. She has been instrumental in shaping and implementing a complete alignment of Navantis’s marketing, sales and delivery teams with Microsoft’s partner programs to ensure that Navantis’s competencies and capabilities are in tune with what Navantis markets and sells.  With over 15 years of growing businesses through intelligent B2B and B2C marketing for the likes of non-linear creations, Cyberplex, IT World Canada, Cybermation and Xwave, Susie is highly skilled in the planning and execution of national and global marketing programs that work. 

In 2012, Susie was awarded a Gold Stevie® Award for Female Executive of the Year for Canada, was recognized by CDN Magazine in 2011 as one of Canada's Top 25 Most Influential Women in the IT Channel, and in 2010, Microsoft awarded two Impact Awards for Marketing Innovation and Microsoft's Choice Partner of the Year, directly related to Susie's creative marketing and events strategy.