Proven Expertise
Nancy Orr has addressed project needs across a variety of sectors, including: municipal corporate initiatives, economic and community development, strategic leadership, workforce development, housing, real-estate development, utilities, non-profit organizations, and addressing the environmental and engineering needs of the insurance, petrochemical, manufacturing, and development sectors. She also has a proven track record of successfully fulfilling interim leadership roles.
Nancy Orr excels at moving projects forward, allowing her clients to focus on leading their organization.
“As a Facilitator of Action, Nancy brings valuable experience and knowledge to every discussion, meeting, conference, and project. Moving projects forward is Nancy’s expertise. As an Advisory Committee Member to United Way Perth-Huron’s United Housing initiative, Nancy’s input, sound advice, network of contacts, advocacy and innovative approaches have been invaluable.”
“Nancy is a passionate and effective facilitator of community development. In our professional collaborations, she comes prepared, organized and equipped to deal with the task at hand and steer the project to completion.”
“Nancy is a resourceful professional who is able to get any task or project done! Her commitment to people succeeding is unwavering and her enthusiasm can help build and transform a team to reach new heights. I would strongly recommend Nancy to help any organization achieve its goals and objectives.”
“Nancy is very attentive to both a community’s AND business’s needs. She is very proactive suggesting forward looking action to boards and councils to accomplish their stated goals. An excellent listener and clear communicator.”
“Nancy has sound business knowledge and expertise, great marketing skills and is a highly motivated individual”
“She took charge of prioritizing tasks, monitoring and facilitating progress, and kept me appropriately informed. Her technical writing skills are well refined, and her reporting is succinct and effective. Nancy is resourceful, creative, and able to deal with a variety of personalities while ensuring a collaborative team approach. Nancy is able to maintain a high level of professionalism in many situations. She is extremely flexible and a successful facilitator, adding an element of humour and enthusiasm to her work that makes her optimistic attitude contagious. ”
“Nancy is able to take ideas, pull together the necessary resources, and translate strategic goals into operational results.”
“Detail-oriented, dedicated and helpful. Any business/organization would benefit greatly from Nancy’s dedication and professionalism.”
“Nancy is a committed leader and very dedicated to achieving her goals. She would be an asset to any organization/business needing project coordination, communication, community outreach, or strategic partnerships. Nancy has a wealth of experience in the business community.”
“She was extremely helpful and very organized. It is without hesitation that I would strongly recommend Nancy to join your team for any complex project.”
“I have yet to find a business development or economic development assignment that is outside Nancy’s scope and capacity. If you ever have an unsolveable challenge or just need someone to take a project and run with it, Nancy is the first call to make.”
“Nancy is resourceful, engaging, resilient and professional.”
“I’ve honestly never met a more passionate and driven individual. I think Nancy’s ‘secret’ is that she simply loves to see people succeed. She possesses the skills (and confidence) to move ideas and concepts forward in a personable and professional manner. She is great at outreach / networking and has an innate ability to connect with people. ”
“Nancy and I worked together on large scale remediation projects. Nancy was the project coordinator and field liaison addressing all technical support, data gathering, implementation, and health and safety. She was also a part of the team leading negotiations with municipalities and agencies. Nancy is strong at managing action and data, leading team organization and ensuring follow up activities. Nancy is very dedicated, focused, and has a results-driven management style. Having Nancy on a team would ensure the success of any project.”