About Catherine
I am a…
Designer, Producer, Project manager
Bio
Project manager by day - TEDxMontreal co-producer by night, I love being involved in passionate endeavours that aim to grow our amazing city and push the envelope! By day, I work for Quartier International de Montréal (QIM), which is a non-profit project management firm that specializes in planning and managing complex and large-scale construction projects with atypical challenges. The city revitalisation projects at QIM are all about bringing new urban spaces to life with high quality design using ethical and responsible standards. I work on extremely fascinating projects which involve complex management processes with a multitude of stakeholders including municipal, provincial and federal governments. By night, TEDxMontreal is a way I can give back personally to my community by helping Montrealers stay current by providing a local platform for the many amazing ideas and talents within our city so they can have the chance to shine and spread as far as possible. Did I mention I love my life? ;)
I'm passionate about
architecture + design, in all it's shapes and forms. Leadership + organization behavior, with all it's human variants. Project management + urban design, and how our surroundings impact our lives.
Areas of expertise
Architecture, Project Management - Construction
The TED story
I've been involved with producing TEDx events since late 2011. I took care of all logistics aspects for the first TEDxUdeM in March 2012, including managing all sourcing, budgets, contracts, event rundown and event-day volunteers. As a team, we then moved on to produce TEDxMontreal in September 2013. Again, I headed the Logistics department, but also ended up taking over the sponsors and finance branches to ensure a strong cohesion between all three as we went through some growing pains. We came out of it a stronger organization and I got to team-up with the fantastic Katy Yam who is now also co-producer for TEDxMontreal 2015! She was a lifesaver and I'm super excited about us heading the next TEDxMontreal event together! It's going to be an amazing ride.