Gail Aller-Stead

Gail runs our Toronto office and is our practice leader for change management. Her three key areas of focus with her clients are strategic management (Planning), human resources management (People), and operational excellence (Leadership. Change).

Gail has held senior internal consulting positions in human resources and organization development in the oil and gas, telecommunications, transportation, consumer-packaged goods, and pharmaceutical industries.

Recent clients have included energy and natural resources; consumer packaged goods; pharmaceuticals; tech; environmental management; finance, insurance, and banking; and communications sectors.

Gail has also worked extensively in the not-for-profit sector, both as a member of a number of voluntary boards and in providing consulting services to not-for-profit organizations. She has served on the board of ACCORD (Association for Creative Change and Organization Renewal and Development) and as editor of its quarterly professional newsletter. She is also an active volunteer with the Strategic Leadership Forum in Toronto and in turn, is the consultant and facilitator for their own strategic management process.

She holds an MSOD (Master of Science, Organization Development) degree from Pepperdine University (California), an undergraduate degree from Athabasca University, and diplomas in human resources management from the University of Alberta and Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning. Gail is also an instructor in the postgraduate certificate program in the Business School at Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning www.humber.ca

Gail is co-author (with Stephen G. Haines and James McKinlay) of Enterprise-Wide Change: Superior Results Through Systems Thinking, published by Pfeiffer/Wiley. She is the delighted recipient of the 2004 “Distinguished Alumni of the Year” award from Athabasca University, www.athabascau.ca.

Phone: 416 924 0513
Fax: 416 924 9733

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