Lisa Durante
Member of Community Engagement Committee, Quality Committee
Lisa Durante is a director on the CommunitiCare Health Board of Directors. She is also the Committee Chair for the Community Engagement Committee and participates as a member of the Quality Committee.
Lisa is a marketing and communications expert with 20+ years of experience that include executive communications, content marketing and social media. Lisa has also led communication strategies for large-scale organizational change projects.
Lisa is currently the managing principal of Jack Communications – a boutique communications and marketing agency that helps organizations from start-ups to Fortune 500 global companies. Previously, Lisa led internal communications at KPMG International in Toronto, and MetLife and Deloitte in New York. Lisa holds a masters in strategic communications from the University of Missouri – Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in social history from the University of Toronto.
Lisa is an active member of her community, lending her expertise to organizations that support and advocate for women and their families. For the last 3 years, Lisa served as the board co-president for Ellevate Network in Toronto – a professional network serving women+. Previously, she oversaw marketing and community relations as part of the Board of Directors for Literature for Life – a not-for-profit that uses literature to better the educational and social outcomes for young, marginalized mothers and their families.
Lisa, together with her husband and their two daughters have called the West End home for 12 years.