Heather Sharpe
Assistant Director of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response at Northern Ireland Ambulance Service; 30+ year career spanning paramedic, HART clinician, and emergency planning roles; recipient of King's Ambulance Medal (2024).
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Aug 19, 2026
17:20
Is there a way that we can quantify that? And how would you think about ways to measure that success?
Heather SharpeGUEST
sometimes the companies that are doing the best job of doing all the reporting aren't the same ones who are actually doing the real on the ground work.
Heather SharpeGUEST
And so the way to really get a sense of that is truly by talking to companies.
Heather SharpeGUEST
So when we are trying to analyze a company, we look at any information we can, we look at proxy circulars, we look at sustainability reports, we look at financial reports, annual reports, transcripts, and listening to the calls with the CEOs.
Heather SharpeGUEST
And then we take all of that to help us formulate questions that we can then take to management teams or boards of directors.
Heather SharpeGUEST
Sometimes there are some examples of some of the most successful stories in Canada, where when you just read the reporting, you wouldn't actually even know about it.
Heather SharpeGUEST
I think a good example of this and something we've talked about before, Brendan, quite a bit was the Clearwater transaction.
5 MINS LATER
23:25
And could you give just one or two examples of how we've engaged with these boards of these large corporations?
17:20
Is there a way that we can quantify that? And how would you think about ways to measure that success?
Heather SharpeGUEST
sometimes the companies that are doing the best job of doing all the reporting aren't the same ones who are actually doing the real on the ground work.
Heather SharpeGUEST
And so the way to really get a sense of that is truly by talking to companies.
Heather SharpeGUEST
So when we are trying to analyze a company, we look at any information we can, we look at proxy circulars, we look at sustainability reports, we look at financial reports, annual reports, transcripts, and listening to the calls with the CEOs.
Heather SharpeGUEST
And then we take all of that to help us formulate questions that we can then take to management teams or boards of directors.
Heather SharpeGUEST
Sometimes there are some examples of some of the most successful stories in Canada, where when you just read the reporting, you wouldn't actually even know about it.
Heather SharpeGUEST
I think a good example of this and something we've talked about before, Brendan, quite a bit was the Clearwater transaction.
5 MINS LATER
23:25
And could you give just one or two examples of how we've engaged with these boards of these large corporations?
JohnHOST
I think that seeing that position of an area manager as a female and your experiences of how females are recognised within the service, that you also may think, dang it, I'm not going to get to make that difference.
Heather SharpeGUEST
I probably didn't go in there, if I'm to be totally honest, wholeheartedly with that being my I did that for a year.
Heather SharpeGUEST
And on the last day, a member of staff took the opportunity to come to speak to me and said to me how disappointed she was in the fact that I didn't seem to be able to change anything.
Heather SharpeGUEST
some of the cultures or attitudes that she had experienced within the division.
5 MINS LATER
JohnHOST
But throughout your career, what would you say were the highlights?