MARCELLA ROBITAILLE
Associate
Marcella Robitaille is a Senior Associate with Weiss International Ltd. She brings in-depth experience in how to get things done with a very enviable track-record of major successes in a variety of different complex initiatives.
Her consulting work focuses on high level projects in the areas of organizational transformations, talent management, and major change interventions.
Some of her recent projects include the following:
• Developed efficient HR strategies, transition and change management plans for the smooth transition to newly designed health care divisions that involved the transfer of 5000 positions in a unionized environment.
• Conducted best practice research and then designed, developed and implemented a talent management approach which focused on all executive and mid-level leadership positions in a large organization.
Marcella has also been recognized with the following awards:
• A bronze medal in the Managing the Human Dimensions of E-Government stream through the Federal National Distinction Awards Program.
• The transformation project: Leading the Transformation in Stewardship, received the 2009 IPAC/Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Silver Award.
Prior to her management consulting career, Marcella provided advice and leadership in senior policy and HR positions in the Ontario Public Service specializing in the areas of planning, program development, organizational design, labour relations, and change management.
Of particular note, Marcella led the multi-year process of creating an integrated information technology organization resulting in a reduction from 18 separate IT units to seven larger clusters. She developed the comprehensive change management framework & strategies to transform the culture of the newly created IT organization to attract and retain critical IT executives and professional talent. Subsequently, Marcella co-wrote the article: Leading the Way - Transforming the Information & Information Technology Organization of the Ontario Public Service (IRC Press, 2006) which documented this transformation as a best practice change project.
Marcella’s educational experience includes the completion of executive development in the Public Executive Program, and a Political Studies Program, from Queen’s University, and a Bachelor of Administration (Health Services) from the Canadian School of Management, Toronto.
