From the Empire and Canadian clubs in downtown Toronto to a school gym in Yukon, I’ve helped leaders deliver memorable speeches that resonate with hearts and minds.

I offer clients great writing that is informed by diverse experiences across the public sector. This includes serving as director of strategic messaging and lead speechwriter to the Ontario Premier, after having worked for ten years as writer and managing editor in the Ontario government Cabinet Office. Earlier in my career, I worked on Parliament Hill for Canada’s Secretary of State for Asia Pacific and then contributed freelance speeches to a range of cabinet ministers in portfolios such as Fisheries and Oceans, Environment, Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, International Trade and Health.

A career highlight was joining the diverse team at the TORONTO2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, where I worked with the CEO on his opening and closing ceremony speeches, delivered to a live audience of 40,000 and a broadcast audience in the hundreds of millions.

Speechwriting has led to other writing projects for public policy clients including the Ontario government’s first-ever poverty reduction progress report, the federal government’s report on the implementation of a national pharmacare program and the City of Toronto COVID-19 recovery report. I also work with research-driven organizations to create short, powerful stories of how their investments support quality of life and economic resilience in Canada.

I’m a quick study on policy briefs and effective in providing communications counsel directly to senior leaders. Communications executives and heads of organizations often stay in touch as they take on new posts. A CEO who I have worked with at three different organizations, put it this way: “David takes technical material and turns it into easily comprehensible material; he can take nebulous ideas and bring sense to them; and, he has a remarkable ability to translate thoughts into emotive language.”