About

Currently

Carmichael Worldwide Inc., President & CEO
Best Doctors Canada Inc., Chairman of the Advisory Board
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, Board of Directors
Women’s Brain Health Initiative, Chair, Board of Directors
DeGroote School of Business, Business Lecturer
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Personalized Medicine Institute, Advisory Board
Canadian Asociation for People-Centred Health (CAPCH), Advisory Board
ARC (academic e-health research collaborative), Advisory Board
York University, Faculty of Health, Dean’s Advisory Board
Garrison Creek Group, Advisory Board

Patients Association of Canada (PAC), Board Member
Women of Baycrest, Honorary Chair
Huffington Post, Columnist
International Keynote Speaker

President & CEO, Carmichael Worldwide Inc.

Dianne has over 25 years of extensive executive management experience spanning four industries (Consumer Packaged Goods, Technology, Financial Services and Health Care), including multi-national, entrepreneurial, startup and growth companies.

In 2004, Dianne’s father was diagnosed with cancer, affecting her profoundly. This lead to a major shift in her career and personal focus that would enable her to advocate and champion for patients, contribute to the highest quality of care in Canada and influence Health Policy.

Dianne recently stepped down as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Best Doctors Canada Inc.  As the former President she created a Canadian market for Best Doctors, an organization that empowers patients with knowledge - ultimately leading it to become a top employee benefit now covering over 6 million Canadians - in addition to overseeing the global branding and go-to-market efforts of 30 countries worldwide.

Dianne’s ultimate dream is to mobilize organizations and governments to rethink health care and lead to sustainable consumer-centred transformation. This led her to found Carmichael Worldwide Inc. in 2011 to provide executive leadership, innovation, commercialization and digital media strategies to dynamic early-stage, growth, mature organizations and government primarily focused in m-technology, wellness and healthcare whose mandate is to enhance the patient experience and/or impact system sustainability through disruptive innovation, technology, delivery systems and unique funding models.

Dianne is also Chair of the Women’s Brain Health Initiative, a Board Member of Holland-Bloorview Kid’s Rehab Hospital and recently appointed to the Board of the Patients Association of Canada.  She is working on a research grant with the Ivey Centre of Innovation on Personalized Medicine. She sits on the Advisory Boards of Mt. Sinai’s Personalized Medicine Institute, CAPCH (Canadian Association of People-Centred Health), ARC (academic e-health research collaborative), York University’s Faculty of Health and the Garrison Health Group, an incubator for mobile technologies to support health care. In addition, Dianne is a Business Lecturer at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business and regularly addresses the MBA graduates of many of Canada’s leading Universities.

Dianne is considered one of Canada’s leading authorities on Personal Leadership Branding including the importance and impact of social media.  She mentors fellow CEOs on enhancing their own leadership brands – and those of their senior teams - in alignment with corporate mission, vision and values.

Prior to her leadership roles in the Health Care industry, Dianne created and spearheaded Worldsource Wealth Management (a subsidiary of Guardian Capital Group Ltd.) where she was Chairman & CEO, overseeing four operations nationally, three reporting Presidents, 1200 Employees & Advisors and more than $8 billion in Assets Under Administration.

Before taking the helm at Worldsource, Dianne was Vice President, TD Waterhouse. As Senior Investment Advisor at Capital Management Group, she built and later sold one of the largest individual investment advisory practices, focused exclusively on sophisticated investors.

In her earlier career, Dianne held progressively more senior sales & marketing management roles at such leading consumer packaged goods organizations as Procter & Gamble, Gillette, RJReynolds-Nabisco and in technology at Memorex-Telex, focused on mid-range systems.

Dianne is an international keynote speaker and expert panelist. She is a frequent speaker at the Economic Club of Canada, the national podium of record. She writes for the Huffington Post and Health & Lifestyle Magazine. She is interviewed extensively in the media and television about health care, innovation, leadership and branding, including the Globe & Mail, BNN, SunMedia TV, Adler Show, and CBC. She was profiled twice on the covers of Women’s Post and FIND YOUR GREAT WORK, a series that highlights major international leaders who have made significant contributions to society and business.

Dianne is a member of the CEO groups TEC (The Executive Committee) and IWF (International Women’s Forum) an invitation-only organization representing 6,500 of the top female CEOs and leaders globally.

Dianne is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, in addition to a 3-yr Business Diploma in Marketing and holds multiple investment industry designations including CIM1, PFP, CSC Honours, CPH, and Officers & Directors.

In 2009 Dianne was recognized as one of the Top 20 Business Women in Canada.  She was recognized nationally as one of the top Women to Watch in 2012 and was recently nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year.