Meet Jen
“Change starts from the ground up. It requires the connection and collaboration of people focused on making a difference for those around them.”
Jennifer Wilkie is a leader in health system transformation. She has more than a decade of experience and is passionate about building relationships to support integration and improvement within and across organizations.
Jennifer is an empathetic and energetic leader. She loves working with people to challenge and investigate new and innovative ways to approach complex problems. She is a connector of ideas and people, constantly thinking about how to collaborate and improve the systems around her.
Prior to co-founding BoardWalk Group, Jennifer was the Director of Continuous Improvement at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). In that role, she was responsible for the implementation of Integrated Care Pathways, Measurement-Based Care, and leading strategies to support CAMH in becoming a Learning Health System.
Jennifer has spent a considerable part of her career leading ground up transformation within the community health sector. She worked as a freelance consultant leading the implementation of a Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinics and evaluating the need for First Response Mental Health Crisis services in Peel. She has also held the roles such as Director of Technology and Shared Services at Reconnect Community Health Services and Community Care Implementation Lead as part of the Ministry of Health, along with many others.
In 2019, she completed her masters in Health Administration from the University of Toronto Institute for Health Policy and Management and her Certified Health Executive (CHE) from the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL).
Jennifer volunteers as part of the Community Living Ontario Board, with RISE as a entrepreneur mentor and on the Community Liason Committee with South Riverdale Community Health Centre.