Carol Ann Cole
is a best-selling author, a professional speaker and
the founder of a national fund-raiser – the Comfort Heart
Initiative.
Bringing extensive business experience to the
speaking platform, Carol Ann shares detail of her twenty-seven year
career from typist to vice president at Bell Canada. With
presentations that speak to the balance we all seek between work and
home life Carol Ann addresses change, teamwork, leadership,
communication, humour, giving back, writing, career/lifestyle and
how to stay motivated in all that you do. She is as comfortable with
executives as she is with the first person of contact in any
company.
Carol Ann and her mother were diagnosed with breast
cancer within days of each other. Deciding there was more to life
than climbing the corporate ladder, Carol Ann walked away from what
she affectionately calls her “big job at the Bell.” The rest, as
they say, is history.
Comfort Heart,
Carol Ann’s best-selling memoir, was published in 2001. Lessons
Learned Upside the Head followed in 2006 and If I Knew Then
What I Know Now in 2009. From the Heart was
released in 2013 with net proceeds going to the Canadian Breast
Cancer Foundation. Carol Ann is currently working on her fifth book
- Paradise. This will be her first work of fiction.
Already a Member of the Order of Canada, Carol Ann
has received numerous additional awards including; the Silver and
Golden Jubilee Medals; the elite Maclean’s Honor Role; the Terry Fox
Citation of Honor, L’Oreals dozen outstanding Canadians celebrating
International Women’s Day, etc. She is profiled in ‘Canadian Who’s
Who’ and in the 2005 edition of ‘1000 Great Women of the 21st
Century.’
Volunteer work is important to Carol Ann. As the
founder of the Comfort Heart Initiative, a fundraiser that has
raised well over one million dollars for cancer research, Carol Ann
has put over 260,000 Comfort Hearts in the hands of Canadians and
people around the world.
In addition to Carol Ann’s website she can be found via her blog,
her facebook account as well as Linkedin and twitter.
