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About Bob Fortier
Bob Fortier is President
of InnoVisions Canada (http://www.ivc.ca),
a telework and
flexible work consulting organization. With over 22 years of focused experience
with
telework, he is considered a leading Canadian expert in this field. He is also
the
founder and President
of the Canadian Telework Association, a non-profit,
telework-promoting organization.
In 1989, he spent three
years developing and implementing a telework
program for the
Canadian federal government. Offered to over 220,000 federal
employees, it remains one of Canada's largest telework programs. For
this achievement, he received several awards including from the Governor
General and from two federal Cabinet Ministers.
Since then he has developed
and implemented several enterprise-wide flexible work programs — each designed to save costs, time and jobs, while helping
employees balance their work and personal lives. He is also well-versed
in strategies to help organizations maintain and improve employee
morale.
Bob Fortier works from his home office
situated in a comfortable country setting
in Manotick, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario.
For some time he wrote a work-at-home column which appeared in all Sun Media
newspapers across Canada, and which was
read by some 3 million readers each month. He has also appeared in the media
over 800 times, including the Jane Hawtin Show, ROBtv, Canada AM, CTV, CJOH-TV,
Global TV, CBO Morning radio, CBC-TV, CBO-FT; and in many major
magazines (e,g. MacLean's Magazine, the Canadian Bar Association
Magazine); as well as in most major North American daily newspapers including
The San Francisco Examiner, The Washington Post, The National Post, The
Boston Globe, The Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail, The Sun, The
Calgary Herald, The Financial Post, etc.
He has presented,
including keynotes, at dozens
of events throughout North America and Europe, and has lectured at
graduate university-level programs. On the consulting side, his clients include: Transport Canada; Telus;
The City of Calgary; Sun Media; The Government of
Spain; Telework America; Bell Canada; Bank of Canada; Department of
Justice; TelecommuteCT (Connecticut); The
Ontario Government; Mitel; City of Nepean;
Work & Family Connection, Inc; Treasury Board
Secretariat of Canada; CEFRIO; The Canadian Intellectual Property
Office; IPMA Canada; the Portuguese
Association for Telework Development; the Institute for Professionals in
Taxation; Health Canada; Public Works and Government Services
Canada; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; etc.
Bob is a former board member of: the US-based
International Telework Association & Council (ITAC), and of the
International Personnel Management Association (Ottawa Chapter (with
which he holds a professional certification) . These roles
reflected his strong consulting and project-management background,
including some 25 years experience in HR (including labour-management issues and flexible work arrangements).
Mr. Fortier is a graduate
of Carleton University, has studied at University
of Ottawa Law School, and speaks English and French. He can be reached at (613) 692-0566 or by email at bobf@ivc.ca
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