About Us

Brenda Badiuk

Brenda Badiuk is passionate about leadership, especially the importance of leading self as foundational in leading others. Brenda describes herself as a servant leader who focuses on the needs of her team so that they can focus on the needs of the organization. Brenda values and actions the philosophy of ‘leader as coach’ and works to support leaders to grow their teams to feel safe, significant, and situated regardless of change and disruption. Brenda believes that forming healthy relationships and having quality conversations are key pillars in building and sustaining trust, efficiently bringing clarity to sometimes chaotic situations, and activating the true potential in teams.

Brenda has more than 35 years of experience in the healthcare sector. Before she was appointed the Chief Operating Officer at Brivia, Brenda was the President & COO of Seven Oaks Hospital (SOGH). Brenda also held senior leadership positions at St. Boniface Hospital and the Health Sciences Centre (HSC).

Brenda holds a Master of Arts in Leadership (Health) from Royal Roads University as well as ICD.D certification.

What Brought Brenda to Brivia

I have spent my entire career in healthcare. During that time, I have participated in many leadership learning opportunities learning different leadership frameworks. My graduate school education was also focused on Leadership. These opportunities taught me components of effective leadership and I remember being excited to share what I had learned with my colleagues and teams. Most of these offerings did not result in lasting positive change to the cultures of the organizations that sponsored them.

I engaged with Brivia when I was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Seven Oaks Hospital (SOGH). My hospital had just participated in a massive regional and provincial health transformation which resulted in 6 large clinical programs and sub-program losses. In our 3-year engagement with Brivia, we also dealt with the COVID pandemic and a violent assault of a manager by an employee that occurred in our front lobby.

We continued to provide quality patient care through these massive disruptions by focusing on our leadership team, our managers, and our directors. With the support of Brivia, we taught our leaders how to move from surviving to thriving, and how to create an environment that taps into the intrinsic motivation of their teams so that they work to their full potential. These positive changes to the organizational culture became noticeable within the hospital and in the region. The performance metrics showed significant positive changes as well.

I chose to join Brivia after retiring from hospital leadership because I am passionate about supporting leaders to make vital, positive changes to their organizations. I know the value of effective support and have witnessed the positive outcomes. I had the privilege of witnessing managers, who were tired and demoralized, gain energy and a renewed sense of purpose. These are challenging times. We need to support our leaders with tangible, clear, simple, ways to connect, communicate, and provide their teams with the control they need to do their best. Brivia offers this. I know because I actioned it in my hospital and it works.