KATHLEEN A. SCALZO M.S.O.D.
Phone: 604-738-9442
fax: 604-737-1671
Kathy Scalzo is President of K.Scalzo &
Associates, a Vancouver based consulting group. For the past twenty years,
Kathy has assisted individual, groups and organizations initiate, plan for and
adapt to change. Her expertise in strategic planning, organization development,
change and transition planning, and facilitation and training has been used by
more than 200 health care organizations, professional associations, and
non-profit agencies.
Kathy is the co-author of the British Columbia
Bestselling book - Picking Up
the Pieces Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer
(Raincoast Books. 2006). The book is based on four years of
qualitative research which includes interviews with over 200 survivors of
different types of cancer, as well as feedback from focus groups and conference
workshop participants. In the book, Kathy applies her experience, expertise and
practical 'know how' in planning and implementing change to the stated needs
and wants of cancer survivors. She presents a planned change approach to help
survivors address the physical, emotional, spiritual, and relationship issues
they face as they seek to move forward in their recovery and their life.
As an organization development consultant, Kathy
has assisted large organizations as well as small work groups in planning and
goal setting, issue identification, change and transition management, conflict
resolution, establishing new workplace agreements, and team building. Her
clients include such diverse organizations as: BC Paraplegic Society, Canadian
Medical Association, Royal Inlands Hospital Foundation, Kamloops Hospice,
Northern British Columbia Mental Health Services, Ovarian Cancer Canada, Richmond
Savings Credit Union, Girl Guides of Canada, Vancouver Coastal Health Society,
and the YWCA.
Kathy holds a Masters of Science in Organization
Development from Pepperdine University (Los Angeles, California) and a B.Sc. in
Occupational Therapy from the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington).
NATIONAL SPEAKER PLATFORM
2009 Minneapolis, Minn – National
Marrow Donor Program
2008 Toronto National Survivorship Forum
2008 Edmonton - Alberta Cancer Care Conference
2008 Saskatoon - CCS Living With Cancer Conference
2007 Montreal - Cancer Patient Educator's Network
2007 Regina - Canadian Cancer Society Rependa Conference
2006 Vancouver - 2nd International Cancer Rehabilitation Conference
2003 Vancouver, 1996 Calgary - Canadian Medical Association Leadership for Medical Women
Kathy also speaks regularly on the topics: Navigating thru times of Change & Transition, as well as Transitioning from Illness to Wellness.ť
PUBLICATIONS:
Co-author of
Picking Up the Pieces: Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer , Raincoast
Books, Spring 2006
“Motivation” in Pinched: A Management Guide to the Canadian
Health Care Archipelago, Pinched Press; Nepean, Ontario 1996
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting
Lecturer at Rancho La Puerta - Tecate, Baja California 2008
Short Term Technical Advisor for Pan
American Health Organization’s commissioning of the New Belize City
Hospital 1995
Canadian delegate to Spirit in the
Workplace Conference,
Mt Abu, India 1999
GOVERNANCE - BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXPERIENCE
Currently serving on the Board of
the Alzheimer Society of BC, Kathy has also served in the past on the Board of the
BC Rehabilitation Foundation as well as HOPE
House Cancer Society. On both of these Boards of Directors, she held the
position of President and Past President. In the past, Kathy has also served
on: the Board of the Centre for Faith & Healing, committees of the board
for Ronald MacDonald House and the Boys & Girls Club, and was the President
of the BC Society of Occupational Therapists.