JANA SCHILDER
First Principal

Jana Schilder has more than 10 years of experience in organizational communications, corporate transformation, and communication training. During her career, Jana has applied proven communication techniques for the benefit of many industries, including many of North America’s most admired corporations.

At KPMG LLP, Canada’s fourth largest accounting firm, Jana provided strategic communication advice, tactics and tools to all four of the firm’s industries, including: Financial Services, Consumer & Industrial Businesses; Energy & Natural Resources Group; and Information, Communication & Entertainment ("ICE"). Concurrently, she also served the needs of KPMG’s Regions practice, comprised of 31 offices across Canada (excluding Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal), as well as the communication needs of the Human Resources department.

Prior to joining KPMG, Jana advised the Vice-President of Communications and Public Affairs at Hydro One (formerly Ontario Hydro Services Company) on employee communication issues as the utility prepared for the deregulation of Ontario’s electricity market.

At Canadian National Railway Company, she headed organizational communications for Paul Tellier during 1995 to 1998, immediately following the initial public offering (IPO), using communication as a tool to help turn a money-losing, former Crown corporation into one of Canada’s most respected and profitable corporations. In his acceptance speech for the CEO of the Year Award from the Financial Post Magazine in 2000, Tellier widely credited the power of communication to lay the foundation for change. Paul Tellier was voted Canada’s Most Respected CEO in both 2002 and 2003 by his peers in an annual survey conducted by Ipsos-Reid.

Throughout her career, Jana has given many presentations and speeches about the value of communication to audiences at Ryerson, Fanshawe College, the Canadian Institute and Chicago's Institute for Quality and Productivity (IQPC).