6 Muskoka Outstanding BusinessWomen’s Awards 2009
At Moose FM, we understand that too often
Muskoka Businesswoman of
“Recognition is fleeting”
the Year (6 -15 employees)
Celebrating Success with ALL the nominated
Women in Business in Muskoka.
AWARD
Recipient
“Surely the true definition of
courage is to do the thing
you are afraid to do.”
– Georgia Binnie Clark (1871-1947)
Canadian farmer
“Empower women and you
KELLY
will see a decrease in
HAYWOOD be a good step to getting to the chamber and the region,
know everyone.” including a revamp of the
poverty, illiteracy, disease
General manager, Working at first for chamber website that gives
Huntsville/Lake of Bays Rosseau Lake College’s members more options.
and violence.”
Chamber of Commerce admissions department, she In addition to her creativ-
As general manager of joined the chamber in 2003 ity, her colleagues give her
– Michaelle Jean
the Huntsville/Lake of as event and office co-ordi- credit for having an excel-
Governor General of Canada Bays Chamber of Com- nator, and within a year was lent touch with human
merce, Kelly Haywood unanimously selected by resources, matching the
manages five full-time and the board of directors as the right person to the right job.
six part-time staff, plus four new general manager. “I’m adamant about iden-
“Educate a boy and you
students during the sum- Haywood was behind the tifying skills and passions
mer. She’s been general creation of the Marketing within the team and taking
educate a man. Educate a
manager of the 632-mem- Our Communities initia- those and implementing
ber chamber since 2004 and tive, which brought togeth- them into programs,” says
girl and you educate a
in that time, the chamber’s er key public and private Haywood. “That tends to
budget has increased 135.5 sector players in Huntsville make the programs success-
family.”
per cent and it has added and Lake of Bays to pro- ful.”
five employees. mote the area as a destina- Haywood is involved
– Adelaide Hoodless (1857-1910),
“Having been sort of an tion during shoulder sea- with too many community
Canadian social activist and founder
implant, like most of us, sons, and to promote event organizations to list com-
of the Women's Institutes
into our community, I felt tourism by attracting large pletely. She has been a
disconnected with this events. board member of Muskoka
world when I first moved In part due to her work, Tourism and the downtown
here,” says Haywood, who Huntsville landed the Huntsville BIA, served on
was born and raised in largest event in Muskoka’s the town’s economic devel-
“We still think of a
Ottawa, but moved to history: the 2010 G8 Sum- opment advisory committee
Huntsville in 2001, drawn mit. The Huntsville Lake of and business retention and
powerful man as a born
by fond childhood memo- Bays area has also wel- expansion committee and
ries of summers spent in comed noteable events such has been an avid supporter
leader and a powerful
Muskoka. as the Muskoka Ironman of events such as the Drag-
“I followed my heart here 70.3, which brought thou- onboat Festival, Doors
woman as an anomaly.”
and didn’t really know the sands of athletes and their Open Ontario and Small
– Margaret Atwood, Canadian author
community. From a career families to the region, and Business Week. She has
search perspective, getting is preparing to host the also inspired the chamber
to know all the local busi- 2010 Ontario Winter team to get involved in
nesses was a main focus. I Games. community organizations
wanted to be part of it, and As well as involving her- as well.
“Without knowledge the
I have a fairly deep-seated self in the promotion of “I believe in the team,”
volunteering nature; it event tourism in Huntsville, she says. “We don’t have a
world is bereft of culture. And
made sense to me that serv- Haywood has brought forth hierarchy here. We’re
ing the community would innovative ideas to better doing it together.”
so we must be educators and
students both. Society needs
heroes to rejuvenate, and

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renew itself with visions of
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the impossible. That’s what
heroes do.”
– Roberta Bondar

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Congratulations to the nominees of the
Muskoka Outstanding
Business Women's Awards!


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