Carol Ann Cole
is an author, a professional speaker and the founder of a
national fund-raiser.
Bringing extensive business experience to the speaking platform, Carol
Ann shares detail of her twenty-seven year career from typist to one
of the first female Vice Presidents in a non-traditional role with
Bell Canada. With presentations that speak to corporate life and the
balance with home life Carol Ann addresses change, teamwork, leadership,
communication, humour, image/self esteem, 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 Mary 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.
If I Knew Then What I Know Now, Carol Ann’s third book, was published
in the fall of 2009 by Pottersfield Press. In this book Carol Ann
offers her incredible journey of the path she has walked from ages
sixteen to sixty. She writes of the clarity that comes with age and,
in her case, a recurrence of breast cancer sixteen years after her
initial diagnosis. Not taking herself too seriously, she shares the
lighter side of her breast cancer recurrence and finds a way to lift
your heart as you read her story. If I Knew Then What I Know Now also
includes Carol Ann’s passion for family, honesty, helping others,
the bond of friendship, and much more. If you are looking for that
special book that will give you hope and courage, this is the book
for you.
Comfort Heart Carol Ann’s best-selling memoir was published in 2001
and Lessons Learned upside the head followed in 2006.
Carol Ann is a Member of the Order of Canada. She has received
numerous additional awards including; the Golden Jubilee Medal; the
elite Maclean’s Honor Role; the Terry Fox Citation of Honor; the YWCA
Women’s Recognition Award; the Canadian Auto Workers Woman of the
Year; L’Oreals dozen outstanding Canadians celebrating International
Women’s Day and the Jewish Women International Woman of the Year.
She is profiled in ‘Canadian Who’s Who’ and in the 2005 edition of
‘1000 Great Women of the 21st Century’ published by the American Biographical
Institute in Raleigh North Carolina.
Volunteer work is important to Carol Ann and she lends her
time to numerous not-for-profit organizations. As the founder of the
Comfort Heart Initiative, a national fundraiser that has raised over
one million dollars for cancer research, Carol Ann has put hundreds
of thousands of Comfort Hearts in the hands of Canadians and people
around the world.
Carol Ann is a member of the Writer's
Federation of Nova Scotia and
LinkedIn.
