Carol Ann Cole
Carol Ann Cole is an author, a professional speaker and the founder of a national fund-raiser. The Comfort Heart Initiative has raised over one million dollars for cancer research with over 228,000 Comfort Hearts in the hands of Canadians and people around the world.
While working as a vice president with Bell Canada, Carol Ann and her mother Mary were diagnosed with breast cancer within three days of each other. Deciding there was more to life for her than climbing the corporate ladder, Carol Ann walked away from what she affectionately calls her “big job at the Bell.” The rest, as they say, is history.
Lessons Learned upside-the-head, Carol Ann’s second book, speaks to who she is today and also brings with it the potential to help you make positive changes in your life and the lives you touch each day Ð if you are willing to listen to your heart and are open to change. Written from the heart Carol Ann draws on her own life’s experiences laced with examples of how the most basic tasks in life can bring you the most success and happiness. Boldly walking through the doorways that cancer blew wide open, Carol Ann serves up the opportunity to take a fresh look at your own life.
Carol Ann is a Member of the Order of Canada. She has received numerous additional awards including; the Golden Jubilee Medal; the elite Maclean’s Honor Role; the Terry Fox Citation of Honor; the YWCA Women’s Recognition Award; the Canadian Auto Workers Woman of the Year; L’Oreals dozen outstanding Canadians celebrating International Women’s Day and the Jewish Women International Woman of the Year. Carol Ann continues to be featured in national newspapers and magazines. She is profiled in ‘Canadian Who’s Who’ and in the 2005 edition of ‘1000 Great Women of the 21st Century’ published by the American Biographical Institute in Raleigh North Carolina.
Carol Ann is always busy with her volunteer work and is a successful motivational speaker. She connects with everyone she meets.