about

About Sheila McIntyre

Since founding McIntyre & Associates in 1995, Ms. McIntyre has carried out projects related to strategic, operational and human resource planning, change management, team building, dispute resolution and decision making. She has consulted on projects that have cut across entire government departments, as well as to those that affected a single branch or division of a government department; and has worked on a strategic planning project that involved setting the direction for a successful high tech company. Her work has also included teambuilding with small, intact teams, mediation between employees, and resolving issues of mandate and responsibility between two government departments. Ms. McIntyre coaches clients who are in the process of competing for executive positions, or who wish to improve their management skills.

Ms McIntyre has been President of the Board of Directors of Family Services à la famille Ottawa , and served as a Director 1996 to 2005. She served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Public Personnel Management Association from 1988-1992, including as President of the Association.

Ms. McIntyre began her career in the Canadian Federal Public Service, which she joined in 1974 following her graduation from Queen's University (B.A. Hons. History).

She spent 17 years in the human resources field, including managing a unit providing organization design consulting services to Revenue Canada , Customs and Excise. In that role, she pioneered a participative approach to planning and implementing organization change. She was a member of the task force within Revenue Canada Customs and Excise which prepared the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax, where she was responsible for aspects of the human resource and organization structure planning. She was Director, Classification and Organization at Customs and Excise and at Fisheries and Oceans.

In 1991 Ms. McIntyre joined The Canadian Centre for Management Development (CCMD) as a faculty member where she was responsible for change management program offerings, and was a member of the team responsible for the educational component of the Management Trainee Program. She designed managed and delivered the program "Managing Continuous Change" and was a member of the team which designed and delivered the "Benchmarking Change" program in the Spring of 1994. She has delivered numerous presentations and speeches related to the general topic of managing and coping with change.