Julie O’Driscoll
Fractional CEO
Julie O’Driscoll is a Principal at GT & Co., an executive advisory consultancy firm based in Toronto. She is a distinguished public affairs and communications professional with extensive background in strategic advisory roles, media relations, and advocacy.
Julie’s experience includes advising senior federal and Ontario cabinet ministers, as well as orchestrating high-profile communications strategies across both public and private sectors. She is also active in charitable fundraising for causes that are important to her.
Julie grew up in Toronto and calls Vaughan home, where she lives with her husband and three children. She has a Communication Studies degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was an NCAA rower, and a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University.
Board of Directors
Terrie-Lynne Devonish (Board Chair)
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
Altus Group
Paul J. Brown (Past Chair)
Partner
Campbell Strategies
Sarah Skinner, CPA, CA (Chair, Audit & Finance Committee)
Monitoring Officer
CPA Ontario
Andrew Siqueira
(Chair, Fundraising Committee)
General Manager
Bell Lifestyle Products
Jonathan Rose
Vice President
Policy Concepts Inc.
Matt Stone
Managing Director Huntstone Capital
Lauren Andre
Manager, Power Strategy & Fundamentals, Enbridge
Genevieve Tomney
Principal GT&Company
Melissa Tobenstein
VP, Managing Director Cossette
Drew Rankin
Managing Partner Parkway Food Group
Dr. K. Kellie Leitch
Founder
Dr. K. Kellie Leitch founded The Sandbox Project in 2009 as a result of her extensive research conducted for the Government of Canada in her report Reaching for the Top published in 2008. At the time, Dr. Leitch's experience as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon and associate professor of surgery, along with her role as Chair of the Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership informed this work.
Dr. Leitch was selected as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 for her work in both medicine and business in 2005. She has published in the clinical and best practice model areas of the health care field. In 2010, Dr. Leitch received the Order of Ontario for her work advocating for children and youth.
Elected to the Parliament of Canada to represent the constituency of Simcoe-Grey in 2011, Dr. Leitch served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Labour and the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada from 2011- 13, and was appointed as Minister of Labour and Minister of the Status of Women for the Government of Canada from 2013-15.
In 2019, Dr. Leitch was appointed chief of orthopaedic surgery at Children’s of Mississippi, and joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi as an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery.