With over 25 years of professional experience in her field, Sheila Casemore is the Director of Client Services at Spinal Cord Injury Ontario where she is known for her dynamic leadership skills and unmatched expertise in community development.
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario’s mission is to deliver and champion excellence in service, support and advocacy for and with people with spinal cord injury.
Peer to peer. Strength to strength. These few words of their new tagline capture the core of SCIO, as their Peer Program brings peers together to share insights and experience from injury to recovery to rehab to achieving personal life goals. The challenging journey of life with a spinal cord injury (SCI) is a complex and surprising one, with each day bringing new ways to move from strength to strength.
Leading the way: SCIO follows their founders’ lead every day as they work to increase the health, mobility and options of those living with spinal cord injury and other disabilities all across this province. It’s a profoundly important job that is accomplished through an unwavering commitment to the person behind the disability, and by maintaining active relationships with the people and communities we serve and work alongside. They are experts in SCI and serve people with all disabilities.
● As a registered Canadian charity, SCIO inspires organizations and individuals to learn about issues relating to living with a spinal cord injury, and to take philanthropic action to effect change.
● They work with municipal and provincial governments to make changes on systemic levels.
● They work together with health care providers across Ontario to protect the health and well-being of people living with spinal cord injury.
● And they work directly with our clients and their families in large and small communities throughout the long and challenging journey from injury to recovery to rehabilitation to independent living.
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario has always been about making life with SCI easier and increasing knowledge around disability and accessibility. Which is why they are proud of their new social venture, Cortree Disability Education Centre. It’s where people with SCI and other physical disabilities and their families can go for info on relevant topics such as Choosing a Wheelchair, Pain Management, Sexual Health and Vehicle Modification. It’s also where business and medical pros can go for important expert training to include mediation services and specialized Personal Support Worker Training. To learn more, contact info@sciontario.org.
Sheila holds her Bachelor’s degree in Food & Nutrition from a university in Canada and is a member of PAVRO, a volunteer management organization. Moving forward, she plans on mentoring women in the healthcare fields and hopes to network as much as possible with like minded professionals worldwide.
In her spare time, Sheila enjoys vegan cooking and is a dog lover.
Women’s Networking Association Member, Sheila Casemore, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
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Architect graduated from the University of Los Andes with a master’s degree in historic preservation and postgraduate training in business administration (MAMD) and computer design (CDDMBT). She has developed an independent practice in the area of design and project structuring. Currently her practice participates from multidisciplinary teams seeking comprehensive criterion, the success and sustainability of projects through the experience of high-quality holistic design.
The introduction of computational thinking as a key factor in design may be suggesting that, in addition to understanding the problem and its rules, the designer could also define the framework and drive the formulation of the project as a whole. The work is developed as an ideal spatialized collective intelligence of an interdisciplinary team, working together with innovation managers, entrepreneurs, industry and government agencies.
In the current context of knowledge economy, the availability of data along with human intelligence and computational capacity, define the ability to make intelligent decisions in the face of uncertainty and the complexity of reality, seeking to raise the levels of competitiveness of businesses. The design of a strategy combines different models that involve learning from experience to promote innovation processes, implementation of new technologies and exploration of new business models.
Women’s Networking Association Member Paula Echeverri Montes can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
Veronique Sarthou is currently a Consultant at Syrphys Agro-Environment. In this role, Veronique works with farming and farmers organizations, natural reserves, national parks, and local organizations and provides counsel and resources with the goal of bettering the earth. She works as an engineer in agronomy, ecology and entomology.
After 7 years in research and development in the pesticide industry, she created her own structure, a research and development office linking agronomy and ecology. 20 years ago, it was very difficult to put in the same sentence agronomy and ecology or environment. The aim of the office is to make the agricultural profession understand the advisability of using nature to alleviate health problems, and the ecologists the interest of working with farmers and of no longer seeing them as enemies. This objective is achieved through training programs, conferences, or participation in research programs. It also performs ecological diagnostics of environments (agroecosystems, natural forests, mountain ecosystems, etc.) using a family of bioindicator insects (the Diptera Syrphidae), which are also excellent crop auxiliaries.
Veronique holds her Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de Toulouse -Toulouse-INP), which she earned in 1988; and a second one in 1997 in the same University. Also a prolific writer, she has been published in several scientific journals. Moving forward, she would like to work outside of France and hopes to expand her business by networking as much as possible with likeminded professionals worldwide.
Women’s Networking Association Member Veronique Sarthou can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
An exceptional attorney, Maria Grazia Boldrin specializes in corporate law, dairy industry, power and light and telecommunications. She practices Venezuelan law and international law, provides legal advice, and develops strategies to resolve cases favorably and cost effectively for clients.
Offering over 25 years of experience, Maria is looking to connect with international companies who currently handle or will handle business in the United States and Central and South America, as well as Europe. Willing to connect with people within these companies who make decisions about recruiting senior level employees, Maria’s main objective is to work in the legal area ofthese transnational companies. She can assist in providing services as a liaison between the different legal departments of each country, and to be able to help in the improvement of the processes from the legal point of view.
Maria attended Florida International University College of Law in Miami, FL and Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, earning her LLM (Letters in Law Masters) in May 2017 and becoming a Venezuelan Attorney, Magna Cum Laude, in June 1985. She is currently studying to take the BAR exam next year.
Maria Grazia is both, Venezuelan and Italian citizen, and speaks English, Spanish, and Italian.
Some of her leadership roles include the following:
Chief Legal Advisor and Judicial Representative of CADAFE (currently CORPOELEC), ELEORIENTE AND ELEOCCIDENTE (CADAFE’S Subsidiaries), all these companies providers of power and light energy.
In the telecommunications area, Maria Grazia worked as Manager of Legal Opinions, Tax Legal Adviser, and Legal Adviser to the General Managements of Network and Interconnection, providing an outstanding legal service, which earned her three consecutive years of recognition of excellence by the Company’s Chief Legal Advisor.
In the dairy industry, Maria Grazia worked as Attorney in INDULAC (Currently PARMALAT), one of the most important dairy industries in the country, providing legal services nationwide, wherever the company held operational bases and /or factories.
Maria Grazia works currently as a Paralegal in Mid-South Immigration Advocates, a non-profit organization based in Memphis, Tennessee, where she supports al staff attorneys in the daily activities and cases, withing the immigration field. She also worked as Legal Assistant in Catholic Charities of West Tennessee and have provided interpreting services in English Italian and Spanish in the Memphis area.
She has also served as Head of the Section of Instruction and Legal Advisor to the General Director Against Drug Trafficking and held the role of Professor of Criminal Law at the DISIP Academy. A full, detailed list of positions and trainings can be found in her WNA profile.
Maria believes that hard work, passion, and drive are the keys to her success as well as having a good work ethic and a sense of professionalism. Moving forward, she plans to continue to grow and further her success and hopes to network as much as possible with likeminded professionals worldwide.
A Member of the Venezuelan Bar Association and National Association for Foreign Attorneys (NAFA), she enjoys music, nature, animals, cooking, reading, and art in her spare time.
Women’s Networking Association Member, Maria Grazia Boldrin, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
With over 25 years of experience in healthcare, Tracey Baker is the Director of Myrtle Health where she spearheads strategic planning and management for specialist health pathways.
Tracey holds her Executive MBA from The University of Warwick, which she completed in 2020. Moving forward, she plans to work from home eventually and hopes to network with likeminded professionals worldwide.
Tracey’s specialty is in applying theory to practice in the healthcare world. Her professional background is in healthcare, having trained as a nurse 37 years ago. She has been a manager of heart, lung and organ transplantation services for 20 years and more recently have completed an Executive MBA.
She has highly tuned diplomatic skills having worked with market and clinical disruptors, including bringing challenging devices or approaches into mainline care pathways. Tracey is currently setting up her own business focusing on optimizing healthcare pathways, including improving access to care and support of mechanical devices to improve healthcare pathways. So often clinical staff are so engrossed in delivering the care that they don’t have quality time to pause and reflect on their approach or resources. Optimizing the simple to the highly complex pathway, it’s a challenge to understand clinicians needs and streamline their approach within local governmental frameworks.
Myrtle Health offers an outsider’s insightful perspective with extensive specialist clinical and operational management experience to support you to achieve the optimal care pathway for your patient cohort whilst streamlining staff effort. Activity is likely to be driven by local and national needs. Tracey Baker and Myrtle Health provide:
- Complex patient care pathway creation involving multiple Trusts and agencies,
- Diplomatic local and national work mindset. Liaison with senior Healthcare Commissioners, Directors and leaders.
- Experience of working within budgetary and governmental framework.
- Experienced innovator and embedder of new service approach with a broad matrix consideration to embed changes.
- Collaboration with Universities and New Start-ups. Advisor, facilitator, business case composition, presenter and educator.
- Trouble-shooting – process mapping, listening and walk-through to achieve efficacy and sustainability.
Women’s Networking Association Member, Tracey Baker, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.