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Team

Get to Know Us!

Each of us brings a unique combination of expertise, experience, and skills.

Your Goals. Our Team’s Priority.

As we are trusted to guide our clients through some of their most personal and private challenges, we recognize how important the relationship is between our team and each client. We take care to hand match each client with a team member based on the client’s needs, goals, and priorities.

Sharon Robson RN

Director, Client Delivery

Sharon is a Registered Nurse with a distinguished career spanning over three decades in community nursing, clinical leadership, and nursing management. Sharon is also a long-standing Board Member of Shelter Them – a mission to empower vulnerable and underprivileged children in Rwanda.

She came to Silver Sherpa following a life-changing personal event, dedicating herself to supporting others with meaningful solutions as they navigate equally challenging experiences.

Colleen Lewis RN

Manager, Client Delivery

Colleen has an extensive background in nursing both in Canada and the US, including experience in complex case management, community nursing, as well as medical-surgical and cardiac care. She was drawn to Silver Sherpa with the opportunity to support clients with the specialized and integrated client-centred approach Silver Sherpa brings to each client situation. Colleen enjoys celebrating positive outcomes with her clients and feels fulfilled knowing that her skills and experience make such a difference in the lives of others.

Rhonda Sloane SSW-G

Client Director

Rhonda has led a long and successful career in complex healthcare navigation and effective advocacy in community and hospital environments. She discovered Silver Sherpa while supporting a client in a hospital and was instantly fascinated with the valuable work we do. Rhonda’s firsthand experience in caring for her mother with Alzheimer’s while encountering significant obstacles to her care and safety compelled Rhonda to join our team. She has been an invaluable asset to our clients ever since.

Aileen MacDonald BCom

Client Director

Aileen has always felt a deep commitment to her community and this is reflected in her successful business career as well as diverse accomplishments in community development. As the primary caregiver to her own parents and mother-in-law, Aileen experienced firsthand the stress and confusion that families go through when trying to navigate crises. She came to Silver Sherpa with a desire to empower others with hope and practical options. Aileen is dedicated to providing personalized advice and solutions to clients so that families can make informed, confident decisions even in challenging circumstances.

Candace Liburd RPN

Client Director

Candace is a dedicated and compassionate Registered Practical Nurse who brings a wealth of experience in primary and palliative care across hospital, community, and home settings. She is recognized not only for her extensive knowledge and passionate advocacy but also for the depth of empathy she brings to each client and family, as well. Candace appreciates the trust clients place in her and is committed to empowering them through life-changing events.

What keeps Candace at Silver Sherpa is her shared sense of purpose with her team and the ability to go above and beyond for clients made possible with Silver Sherpa’s unique approach and expertise.

Sheri Panesar BA, CMLA

Client Director

Sheri came to Silver Sherpa following a lengthy and diverse career in healthcare services, recognizing that her skills and resourceful nature would go far in supporting Silver Sherpa clients. She is driven by the fulfillment she feels when clients accomplish their health and wellness goals – especially through formidable challenges. Sheri’s clients have come to rely on the trust and partnership they feel with Sheri.

Caren Crivari CPA, CMA

Client Director

Caren supports clients’ well-being every day by coordinating key resources essential to ensuring a comfortable and fulfilling Silver Sherpa service journey. Caren is passionate about the wealth of knowledge and life experience older adults bring but are often overlooked, and came to Silver Sherpa with a commitment to advocate for older adults’ voices to be heard every day.

Andrea Kho BSc, CCPE, ARCT

Director, Client Solutions

With an extensive background in pharmaceutical and healthcare strategy combined with firsthand experience navigating care on behalf of loved ones, Andrea came to Sherpa with a unique understanding of the challenges families frequently face while caring for a loved one and a commitment to inspire families with clear direction.

With a view that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” Andrea’s focus is on creating long-term relationships and durable, flexible solutions by connecting “parts” in unique and innovative ways.

Andrew Crane BA, LLB, MBA

Chief Executive Officer

Andrew thrives on working with teams to accomplish meaningful goals. As a lawyer and business executive, Andrew enjoys helping new entrepreneurs get started from the ground up and assisting more established businesses in their ongoing growth and development.

Andrew came to Silver Sherpa after repeatedly seeing family and friends struggle to navigate through challenges and crises related to senior care without knowing where to go, what questions to ask and what options were even possible.

Susan Hyatt BSc(PT), MBA

Chair & Co-Founder

Susan is passionate about changing the way we look at ageing and is determined to empower clients with innovative ways to embrace the longevity revolution. Susan draws on more than 40 years of experience as a corporate strategist, management consultant, teacher, physical therapist, and expert in transforming health care systems. Known for her pragmatic common–sense approach, she is widely quoted on smart ageing, eldercare, and estate planning issues.

Advisory Board

Keith Monrose

Co-Founder & Advisory Board

Keith Monrose is a co-founder of Silver Sherpa Inc. and is the Executive Director of Seneca International where he leads global post-secondary initiatives. Keith held previous leadership positions in the post-secondary, health and technology sectors at McMaster University, Mohawk College, Merck Canada, Canada Health Infoway and Telus.

Throughout his career, Keith has led or contributed to transformation initiatives focused on organizational alignment, performance and growth strategies. He is a frequent speaker on the future of work and volunteers on a number of sector advisory groups, committees and boards.

Elizabeth Lea

Advisory Board

Elizabeth Lea joins the Silver Sherpa team bringing insights and experience developed through her years in the public broadcasting, healthcare, electricity, and municipal affairs sectors. She has contributed to organizations in a number of roles, including senior Public Affairs practitioner, innovation strategist, and urban and regional planner.

With a focus on culture, literacy and education, Elizabeth currently serves as a member of the University of Toronto Press Board of Directors and has served on the Board of A Cappella, a prevention and early intervention initiative that assisted young women who were at risk of leaving high school.

Fred Ryall CHS

Advisory Board

Fred brings 40 years of experience as an estate practitioner and member of ADVOCIS, an association for Insurance and Financial Planners. For over a decade, Fred has focused his considerable expertise on families with special needs children, putting tremendous effort into ensuring each is well looked after.

As Past President of the Peel region ADVOCIS board and a founding Member of the Estate Planning Council of Mississauga, Fred has been featured and recognized across television, radio, and written media. He has also lectured for numerous not-for-profit organizations, including Cystic Fibrosis, Autism Ontario, Canadian Down Syndrome Society, Peel Public School Board, ALS Canada, and Alzheimer Society of Canada.

SUCCESS STORIES

Discover What Our Clients Say About Us

“If we had been left to deal with this situation alone without the skilled and focused intervention of the Silver Sherpa staff, we would not be in the positive place we find ourselves today. They created the conditions that shaped the possibility of obtaining the neurologist outpatient assessment at a teaching hospital, the ophthalmology specialists, and the audiology assessment.

Without Silver Sherpa’s expertise, I compare the process of having to make these appointments to carrying a sheet of plywood up a hill against the wind. Not easy. The journey continues.”

– J. T.

We are with you each step of the way.

Ready to discover more? We offer a complimentary, confidential consultation.

(905) 491-6972

Or email us at firststep@silversherpa.net

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