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Maria Grant-Kinnear

Partner, Business & Technology Transformation

Driving high impact business transformations through human centred change leadership.

About Maria

With over 15 years of experience, Maria is a technology and business transformation leader specializing in delivering large-scale enterprise change that drives strategic business outcomes. She is passionate about helping organizations grow with purpose building the capabilities, culture, and leadership needed to thrive amid disruption and deliver enduring performance. Maria has led transformation portfolios exceeding $100M and complex business and technology initiatives impacting more than 3,000 people across the financial services, healthcare, mining, and real estate sectors.

Maria partners with executive leaders to define strategy and translate it into execution, leading digital transformation, organizational change, and operational improvement initiatives. She brings clarity to complexity, building alignment across diverse stakeholders groups and leading with empathy to achieve sustained outcomes.

As a long time leader of global transformation initiatives, Maria believes that successful transformation is powered by people as much as technology, because change only works when people adopt it. By combining strategic program leadership with human-centered change management, Maria enables organizations to accelerate adoption, strengthen organizational capability, and build long term business value.

Education & Certifications

  • Bachelor of Business Administration, Wilfrid Laurier, 2009

  • Certified Professional Accountant, CPA, CA 2010

  • PROSCI Change Management Certified

Projects

  • Process Improvement - Rivera Homes / Toronto, ON

  • Finance Transformation and Process Improvement - Kinross / Global

  • SOX Reporting - Vale / Toronto, ON

  • Operating Model Redesign and Process Improvement - DREAM Unlimited / Toronto, ON

  • Operating Model Redesign and Process Improvement - Brookfield Relocation Services / Toronto, ON

  • Shared Services Strategic Analysis - RBC / Global

  • Payment System Transformation - CIBC / Toronto, ON

  • Technology Transformation (ERP and FPM) - Canadian Tire / Toronto, ON

  • Process Improvement - Hudson’s Bay Company / Toronto, ON

  • Call Center and Shared Service Center Vendor Management and Process Improvement - Sears / Toronto, ON

  • Process Transformation - Finstra / Global

  • Business Transformation and Financial Systems Implementation (ERP and FPM) - Finstra / Global

  • ServiceNow Implementation - Finstra / Global

  • Business Relationship Management and Technology Transformation - OMERS / Toronto, ON

  • ERP Implementation - Agnico Eagle / Toronto, ON

  • Technology Implementation - VHA Home Health Care / Toronto, ON

Expertise

  • Technology Strategy and Roadmapping

  • ERP and FPM System Implementation

  • Program and Project Management

  • Relationship Management

  • Change Management

  • Organization Model Redesign

  • Training

  • Vendor Management

  • System Integration

  • Shared Services Implementation

  • Outsourcing / Nearshoring / Offshoring Strategy

  • Business Case Analysis

  • Process Improvement