Gloria Lattanzio

Gloria Lattanzio is CEO and co-Founder of the Conference .ca

With over 30 years experience in healthcare Gloria has a rich, varied and extensive background in clinical work, administration, strategy and policy. She had the great pleasure of leading successful initiatives ranging from small innovative programs, to large scale complex projects resulting in transformative health system redesign.

Educated as a social worker Gloria discovered her true passion – geriatrics - early in her university life while interning in London, England with a small community based agency designing programs to deliver healthcare to frail, isolated and homeless seniors. She discovered how geriatrics challenged a traditional approach to healthcare delivery and found the opportunities and enormous complexity of working with an older population exciting and rewarding. Pursuing an interest in geriatrics she returned to Canada and developed one of the first provincial home visitation programs for frail seniors

She went on to administrative work design and oversee a cluster of specialized geriatric services for a consortium of hospitals across multiple settings including, outreach, ambulatory, rehabilitation and acute inpatient care. She was acknowledged for designing one of the first centralized system the frail elderly and their families to access a set of coordinated and integrated geriatric medicine and psychiatry services.

She was seconded to government several times.- initially to work to develop a blueprint for the delivery of provincial community based health services, then to develop a first of it’s kind internationally acclaimed Elder Abuse Strategy, and finally to lead the implementation of the redesign of the assessment process for community care services across the province of Ontario. This resulted in over 2500 nurses educated in a new system and over 40 organizations with redesigned business processes. This project was short listed for an international business award for its innovative, diverse and inclusive approach to change management and business redesign.

As a consultant Gloria had the pleasure to lead a province-wide ‘change initiatives’ resulting in the transformation and redesign of the health delivery system

The common thread thorough this career path is the recognition and appreciation of the richness of diversity of ideas and the power of people motivated by a shared vision. The ability to draw strength from diversity, to find valuable insights from diverging perspectives and to put them together to create something innovative, useful and new has laid the foundation for the Conference.ca  It is a marriage of social work values and sound business practices and represents a true integration of rich experiences working in this field.. The Conference is Gloria’s way of ‘making a small dent’ in the universe.. .