Mairead Lavery is President and CEO at Export Development Canada. Mairead Lavery come from Ireland, and she lived and worked in different cultures. She genuinely loves to meet new people, hear new ideas, and learn new things. Mairead thinks diversity equals opportunity, which is why she worked to help women advance in aviation (IAWA), was a founding member of the diversity committee at Bombardier Aerospace, and chair of its EDC counterpart.

Mairead have a positive attitude. Every day she has the chance to be a good role model, and she believes negativity is a killer. In her world there are no problems, only solutions she hasn’t found yet.

Mairead have a chronic need to make personal connections, build networks and bring people together.
Also she thinks this is why she have felt comfortable building and managing teams of more than 500 employees.

Specialties: Project Management | Networking | Consulting | Mergers and Acquisitions | International Business Development | Negotiation | Engineering | Finance | Strategic Planning