Merril Mascarenhas

Managing Partner @Arcus Consulting Group

CA

For more than 30 years, Merril has specialized in helping organizations manage strategy, change and transformations. As a Certified Management Consultant and Managing Partner at Arcus, he has helped organizations understand the implications of evolving markets and research and develop strategies to capture substantial and sustainable growth and performance improvements.Merril regularly leads innovative change initiatives that deliver value to clients. Recent contributions include architecting a multi-year change strategy for a Fortune 500 company; mentoring a CEO on organizational change; excellence transformation of a leading B2B services company; creating a new sales deployment model for a healthcare company; developing a position evaluation and compensation model for a professional medical association and improving services to customer segments by deepening their understanding of customer attitudes. Merril is a trained facilitator and has participated in panels on strategy and organizational practices at many industry gatherings. He is a frequent author with coverage on BNN, CBC, Global, Thomson Reuters, CMA and MRIA. He has been a visiting professor at the Kellogg Schulich School of Business and an Instructor for the Harvard ManageMentor executive training program. Merril has been an active participant in the Ontario Business Advisory Council, an organization that advices the Premier and Government of Ontario, the Sustainability and Energy Task Force and Economic Policy committees of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and Toronto Board of Trade, and boards and councils of the MRIA and CMA. Merril has served on over fifteen boards including Toronto East General, High Park Initiatives, Quinte Healthcare, Boardmatch.org, Osteoporosis, Kiwanis and Epilepsy Canada.