IAAP Associate Members are companies who actively support the Toronto Chapter and its efforts to provide its members with opportunities for professional development and personal growth.
The Associate Member classification allows the company to own the membership and specify a contact person for the company. This also allows flexibility to transfer the membership to a different company representative if needed.
The cost for this membership includes a one-time processing fee of $15 (U.S.) and annual dues of $180 (U.S.), for a total of $195 (U.S.).
Our Associate Members have generously donated their time, goods and services and provide ongoing support to the Toronto Chapter. We would like to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge their support and to express our gratitude and thanks.
The Toronto Chapter is pleased to have the following companies (listed in alphabetic order) as Associate Members:
Art Gallery of Ontario
www.ago.net
Contact: Paul Ayers
The Art Gallery of Ontario, one of Toronto’s most venerable cultural institutions and one of the largest art museums in North America, just turned 111 years old – but is the hottest new kid on the block with a suite of the most up‐to‐date meeting spaces and seminar rooms in the all new Weston Family Learning Centre.
After a huge renovation three years ago that doubled the size of the building and added a brand‐new restaurant with a private dining room, the AGO has been jumping with visits from companies doing client events and staff outings.
CN Tower
www.cntower.ca
Contact: Vinta Borrison
While you may see the CN Tower as one of Toronto’s top attractions, you may not know that the CN Tower is also one of the city’s top corporate meeting and event venues. With flexible meeting rooms featuring the latest in high-tech communications and locally sourced seasonal cuisine, the CN Tower is the ideal choice for events of up to 2000 guests, including client or employee appreciation events, Holiday parties, regional meetings and entertaining out of town guests.
Our in-house team of Event Planning professionals will work with you in preparing the details of your event and in designing a menu to suit the needs of your guests and your budget.
CanPacific College
www.CanPacificcollege.com
Contact: Adam Arezo
We pride ourselves on our “Practical Instruction”, communicative and student-centered approach and to provide high quality and innovative language instructions with the skills and abilities for successful language learning and career training, and to assist in achieving personal and career goals by delivering highest quality language programs.
The Catalyst Learning Group
www.catalystlearn.com
Contact: Paul Gardner, President, Catalyst Learning Group
paul.gardner@catalystlearn.com
(416) 356-6750
The Catalyst Learning Group (formerly the Catalyst Institute) is a learning and development company focused on delivering innovative and impactful courses and programs to support staff (including administrative professionals and project coordinators).
For every course developed and program delivered, we make sure that:
• The skills we teach and the tools we provide are relevant, practical and quickly put to use.
• Participants confidently apply what they learn on a sustained basis.
• Colleagues and managers benefit from the improved support they receive.
This is only possible by ensuring that our team of experts and educators have not only been in similar jobs as our participants (they have!) but that they take the latest adult learning methodologies and apply them so our courses go beyond the theoretical and into the realities of your office.
Whether e-learning or workshops, standard or customized, Catalyst Learning Group delivers the hard and soft skills to maximize the potential of participants working in an increasingly demanding work environment where we are all being asked to do more with less.
de Stricker Associates
www.destricker.com
Contact: Ulla de Stricker
The de Stricker Associates consulting practice focuses on information related challenges of all kinds, helping organizations manage their internal documents and corporate memory, share knowledge among business teams, provide appropriate research information support to knowledge workers, optimize the operations of corporate libraries, and so on. Clients include North American public and private sector organizations of all sizes. A confidential, exploratory discussion is always free. More information at www.destricker.com.
Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc.
www.inalco.com
Contact: Robert Carter
Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. is a life and health insurance company that offers a wide range of life and health insurance products, savings and retirement plans, RRSPs, mutual and segregated funds, securities, auto and home insurance, mortgage loans and other financial products and services.
The fourth largest life and health insurance company in Canada, Industrial Alliance is at the head of a large financial group, which has operations across Canada as well as in the United States.
The Toronto Corporate Offices are located at 522 University Ave. Head Office is located in Quebec City.
Moss McCabe & Partners Inc. 
www.mossmccabe.ca
Contact: Kim Moss
Moss McCabe provides premier recruitment solutions in the areas of Senior Administration, Human Resources, Customer Service and Retail Management. As a boutique firm we provide a uniquely customized range of services focused on helping to strengthen businesses and define careers. With each company and each candidate, our goal is to become their candid and capable partner in recruitment.
Sweet Flour
www.sweetflour.ca
Contact: Kim Gans
Sweet Flour Bake Shop is the first customized, made-to-order cookie bake shop in the world. Sweet Flour Bake Shop pays tribute to the cookie. The experience starts with the highest quality ingredients and ends with a warm, delicious, freshly baked cookie created just for you. Sweet Flour’s signature process prepares fresh baked cookies in minutes.
The made-to-order cookie is just a morsel of what Sweet Flour offers. There is something to suit everyone’s taste, including customizable muffin tops, cookie sandwiches, house-made granola, fresh brewed coffee and local organic milk. Sweet Flour also provides great catering options and personalized favours for weddings, showers, corporate and other special events.
SkyWireless
www.skywireless.ca
Contact: Richard DeBiasio
Sky Wireless is an Authorized TELUS Dealership, working with business clients to provide business solutions. Having the good fortune of gaining the trust of companies across North America, we realize more and more each day why companies rely on our team. We are committed to your success, and are self-mandated to assist you to attain your organizational goals. With our extensive R&D and disciplined approach, we have proven to be an asset to any organization regardless of its size and needs.
In our competitive industry, technology is continually advancing, and new products come to market very frequently. Our promise is to deliver solutions and ideas on how these products will help your company increase productivity and reduce human error while focusing on your bottom line and overall return on investment. We do so by continually investing in our back end system to better manage our clients’ needs.
Tidy’s Flowers
www.tidysflowers.com
Contact: Martha Contway
Proudly providing Toronto with floral solutions to both large and small businesses, since 1877. Our Business Services consultants will work with you to ensure our talented designers create the exact look to represent your company. We offer individualized programs for Weekly Flower Services, Special Events and Holiday Decoration, Branded Corporate Gifts, Client Appreciation, Employee Recognition, Product Promotions and Introductions. We service downtown Toronto three times daily. Metro Toronto delivery area is west to Hamilton, north to Keswick and east to Bowmanville. For emergencies within Toronto, we can arrange rush deliveries via courier. Tidy's worldwide service can deliver anywhere in North America and overseas, usually the next business day. Tidy's is proud to be a top member of FTD!
ZOË Alliance Inc.
www.zoealliance.com
Contact: Angie Draskovic, ZOË Alliance Inc., Founder & CEO
P: (647) 477-4377 | C: (647) 505-5017
This organization works with craftspeople in Haiti, India, and Guatemala who produce high quality gift or promotional items. Income earned from the sale of these items feeds families, sends children to school, and builds villages and communities. The projects and the gifts are described at www.zoealliance.com - we urge you to take a look at the beautiful leather binders and wallets, silk and cotton blankets, recycled paper pens and much more. If you need to source corporate gifts, please consider Zoë Alliance and show that your employer supports a hard working family in the developing world!