For the past eight years, Cathy Lewis has connected the worlds of business and education, sharing unique and in depth education understanding.

As Director of Education for Nortel LearniT, she led the development and deployment of Nortel's education outreach initiatives. In this role Cathy provided technical, strategic and educational direction, worked with partners like NASA, along with international educators and multimedia specialists.

As a long time consultant for Microsoft's Education Solutions Group, Cathy has managed projects such as digitizing national standards in xml and continues to provide industry insights on how to gear marketing for the use of Microsoft Office in education.
As a founder and Executive Director of iSisters Technology Mentoring, Cathy has led the creation of five unique technology learning programs that support women in need. Four new technology learning centres have been built in the Ottawa/Capital region that offer employability and information communication technology learning opportunities for Intuit women, teen mothers, abused and immigrant women. iSisters has won national awards from ITAC (Information Technology Association of Canada) and the Conference Board of Canada.

Cathy has led numerous online education programs for public, private, non-profit and post secondary organizations. She led the creation of educational online resources on the history and heritage of Parliament Hill for Public Works. Cathy created a national technology learning program for at-risk parents for Family Service Canada and translates her overall understanding of the education sector to post secondary online strategic projects for clients such as Carleton University.

Cathy presents throughout North America on the integration of technology into teaching and learning, technology enabled learning and supporting professional development methodologies.

Other volunteer efforts include children's breakfast programs, coaching soccer, self esteem building programs and mentoring to troubled teen girls.

Cathy is passionate about education and brings unparalleled experience in online learning, elearning, instructional design, professional development and ebusiness learning strategy.

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