Cathie Scott, PhD, CEC, ACC

Experience

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  Technical Resource Centre

  Jan 1986 - Sept 1989

  Technical Aids Consultant

  The mandate of the Technical Resource Centre was to support people with physical disabilities to find appropriate technologies (e.g., mobility, communication, environmental controls) that would enhance there ability to interact in society and lead more independent lives. In this non-profit organizational, we learned about the power of a truly transdisciplinary team that was focused on a common goal.

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  CST Consulting

  Sept 1989 - Jul 2006

  Consultant

  Through CST Consulting I worked with people in the health and social services sectors primarily to conduct evaluations, research and evaluations for program development and planning purposes.

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  University of Lethbridge

  Jul 1993 - Mar 1995

  Community Liaison

  The role of Community Liaison was designed to make better connections between communities around the Lethbridge area and the university. Basically, we explored health promotion and population health needs and linked community stakeholders with researchers who were interested in exploring relevant questions with engaged communities.

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  University of Calgary & University of Alberta

  Sept 2004 - Aug 2006

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  The focus of my postdoc was on exploring connections (no pun intended) between social network theory and communities of practice for supporting knowledge exchange within organizations.

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  Calgary Health Region

  Aug 2006 - Dec 2007

  Director, Knowledge to Action

  The Knowledge to Action (K2A) department provided support to people across the Calgary Health Region to make better use of knowledge in practice through connecting - people to people; people to practice & people to information.

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  University of Calgary

  Sept 2007 - now

  Adjunct Associate Professor
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  Calgary Health Region - Alberta Health Services

  Jan 2008 - Jun 2009

  Director, KM in Health Outcomes

  We kept the lights burning for knowledge management services within a health service organization during a period of organizational change.

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  Alberta Health Services

  Jul 2009 - Oct 2013

  As Senior Provincial Director of LPI, I worked with the LPI team (95+ employees) and the AHS Senior Leadership Team to create the conditions for leading, promising and emerging practices to be identified, assessed and, where appropriate, spread across the organization. The Leading Practices & Innovation team includes people with the diverse range of expertise to support connecting people to people, people to information and people to leading practice. The strength of the area is clearly in the diversity, creativity and ability of staff to stimulate thinking in new ways about health services issues. As such, the mandate is to support capacity and capability organizational learning and development. LPI practices reflect those of that identified as knowledge management practices in many other industries. Show less

  • Senior Provincial Director, Leading Practices & Innovation

    Aug 2012 - Oct 2013

  • Executive Director, Knowledge Management

    Aug 2010 - Aug 2012

  • Director, Knowledge Management - Capacity Building

    Jul 2009 - Aug 2010
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  Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research

  Nov 2013 - Dec 2015

  • Chief Operating Officer & Lead, Policy Research

    Nov 2014 - Dec 2015

  • Director, Policy Research and Strategy

    Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
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  PolicyWise for Children & Families

  Dec 2015 - Dec 2020

  Chief Knowledge and Policy Officer
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  K2A Consulting (a division of Scott-Taplin Enterprises Ltd.)

  Dec 2020 - now

  Lead Executive Officer
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  Royal Roads University

  Jan 2021 - now

  Adjunct Faculty, Faculty of Management
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  University of British Columbia - Okanagan

  Jan 2022 - now

  Adjunct Professor