Dawn Campbell-Borland

AVP Change
Canada Life

Dawn Campbell-Borland is AVP, Change at Great-West Lifeco. Dawn specializes in organizational change and strategy execution, working with leaders and teams to build the skills and culture needed for results. Her experience with a variety of sectors and industries translates to insights on what it takes to transform and the organization and people dynamics that make a difference. As she began her career, she was fortunate to work in organizations where she was involved in large, complex initiatives. Then, while working for a small consulting firm, she focused on getting better answers to key questions - were strategies and programs delivering the results intended, why or why not and how could we accelerate our interventions to get the right results? Dawn’s current passion is improving organizational effectiveness. Specifically, getting to the front line – evolving our practices, systems and approaches to help teams improve performance and make work.

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Day One: Sunday, July 21, 2019

Sunday, July 21st, 2019

2:15 PM Shift the Way You Execute Results

Organizations create impressive strategies but fail too often in their attempts to get results. This session tells the story of how a division of CanadaLife leveraged Queen’s proprietary Sustainable Execution Diagnostic Assessment (SEDA) to dig deeper into specific execution barriers that were too often overlooked and needed to be addressed. At the core of SEDA is the novel concept of ‘drag’ – a competing force to execution that quantifies the degree to which execution barriers are causing valuable organizational resources are being misdirected and wasted. CanadaLife will explain how using this assessment helped them realize that despite investments in managing aspects of culture and engagement, they were not harnessing the collective intelligence and energy in their people. They will also share how specific barriers can be used to anchor a common language that associates execution to change and create urgency throughout the organization for improvement.