Mary Korica 

MaryKorica.com
Toronto, Ontario

Professional Experience

Mary has written over 100 speeches for executive level on topics including defence policy, business management initiatives, bilateral relations, awards, event commemorations, and corporate change. While working as a Government of Canada Policy Officer, she wrote hundreds of communication products including briefing notes, presentations, reports, meeting minutes and ministerial correspondence. Mary also has extensive professional experience writing for non-profits and academia. She also loves to write personal speeches for milestone life events (she has a soft spot for wedding speeches and other celebratory events, but also loves to deliver sensitivity and meaning to eulogies and celebrations of life.) Mary has also worked as an editor at Carswell (Thomson Reuters). Whether the task is a corporate gala keynote, a motivational speech, a lifecycle event speech or a magazine article, Mary delivers top quality and customer service .

Education

York University Dispute Resolution Certificate M.A. Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto B.A. (Honours) International Relations and Psychology, University of Toronto

Keywords & Phrases

Mary has over a decade of experience writing and ghostwriting everything from business and lifecycle event speeches; blogs; articles; memoir; podcast scripts; ministerial correspondence; government reports; conference reports; briefing notes; presentations; meeting minutes; Annual General Meeting (AGM) summaries; event summaries; panel discussions; newspaper, magazine and newsletter articles; eulogies; funding proposals; website copy; business correspondence. Mary has written on topics including: corporate transformation; speechwriting; government; alternative dispute resolution; the arts; politics; public policy; international affairs; defence and security; business; change management; mediation; arbitration; law; legal issues; insurance; human rights; health; mental health; not-for-profit; awards; marketing.