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My name is Ceilidh (Kaylee) Price, and I believe in the power of communication to connect community.

Check out my LinkedIn Profile here

relevant Background and experience

Journalist

Corporate Communications Lead

Entrepreneur

Staff and Freelance Journalist - 1997 to Present


I began my career after graduating from the SAIT Journalism program in 1997. After several years paying my dues at weekly rural news outlets, I moved on to city dailies, eventually moving onto the corporate side of news in developing internal newsletters for the oil and gas industry and entrepreneurial industry.

Entrepreneur

Corporate Communications Lead

Entrepreneur

Extend Communications - 2003 to 2012


I've owned and run my own communications firms, with up to 15 staff, for over 20 years. Starting with a small community investment firm in 2003 with Extend Marketing, which we sold to an international firm in 2007. I honour the entrepreneurial spirit and embody it in my approach to communications.

Corporate Communications Lead

Corporate Communications Lead

Corporate Communications Lead

Ceilidh Communications - 2005 to present


My freelance firm has worked with clients such as Marda Loop Business Improvement Area, Crescent Heights Business Improvement Area, University of Calgary, Calgary Marathon, Hayley Wickenheiser, WickFest, EnCana, AstraZeneca, DeliverGood, and others. I've done everything from crisis communication to daily newsletters.

Event Specialist

Community Relations Professional

Corporate Communications Lead

Various Major Events - 2010 to 2024


From multi-million-dollar sporting events to transformational self-development conferences and grassroots community Easter egg hunts, my experience spans the spectrum of event production. I oversee every detail — from contracting vendors and managing logistics to crafting communications strategies and leading social media campaigns. 

Community Relations Professional

Community Relations Professional

Community Relations Professional

Community Programming - 2005 to present


Over the years, I've developed a specialty in implementing programs that incorporate various aspects of community engagement, including events, newsletters, social media profiles, and campaigns to engage my clients' stakeholders in whatever way they communicate. I'm as comfortable at a boardroom table as I am at a kitchen table.

Volunteer

Community Relations Professional

Community Relations Professional

Always and Forever


My favourite volunteer work is with seniors and friends with special needs to help them stay active, fulfilled, and connected to their community through work, activities, and personal time.  However, putting my communications and event skills to use, I volunteer for and organize many community events such as hockey tournaments, etc.

Skills Overview

  • Development and management of all components of events with budgets from $5,000 to $5 million, which included world-renowned tournaments, conferences and other events
  • Ability to work within diplomatic and academic structures, demonstrated by working with people, including high-profile attendees, NHL players, the Prime Minister, IOC members, Olympians, etc.
  • Organizing focus groups, followed by analysis and reporting with recommendations
  • Sponsorship recruitment, management and activation
  • Media relations, social media campaign development and management
  • Crisis Communications planning and management
  • Volunteer engagement for 200+ volunteers at any given time
  • Creation and execution of new grassroots community outreach programs in both rural and urban settings
  • Social media engagement for events and personalities
  • Experience working with First Nations and Indigenous communities
  • Collaborator and contributor of best-selling biography
  • Web and social media creation and management (super-user of Canva, Adobe Express, Eventbrite, Wix, GoDaddy, Survey Monkey, HubSpot and others. Intermediate user of Slack, Duda, Drupal, WordPress, Qualtrics)
  • Intermediate graphic design ability, with deep experience of managing the creative process and facilitating deadlines 
  • Familiarity with PM software such as Teams, Asana, Slack, SharePoint and others
  • Working knowledge and deep interest in AI principles and applications and how it can create efficiencies and improve outcomes
  • Speech, media training and presentation writing (Sample: click here)

Knowledge base

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

  

  • Municipal and Business Improvement Areas
  • Not-For-Profit & Charitable
  • Oil & Gas
  • Entrepreneurship and Business Management
  • Technology and Health Technology
  • Health & Refugee and Migrant Research/Education
  • Hockey and Olympic Sport

EDUCATION

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

  

JOURNALISM & COMMUNICATIONS

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

1995 – 1997


Various industry-specific knowledge certificates

Awards and Recognition

Sports Tourism & Event Marketing

Award of Distinction 

City of Surrey | 2020

Best Marketing & Communications

National Philanthropy Day

Association of Fundraising Professionals | 2017

Alberta Business of the Year

Futurepreneur | 2005

References

Dick Wilson - Former EVP at EnCana for whom I managed a multi-million dollar community engagement and event project from inception to on-the-ground execution.

d.wilson@shaw.ca

403-466-1348


Camie Leard - Met in Journalism School, is a current client and has known me for 30 years.

camie@crescentheightsvillage.ca

403-874-7694

Becky Bradbury - Met through children's sports activities, then worked together on a couple of projects. Becky also volunteered at one of my major community events.

rebecka.bradbury@ucalgary.ca

403-630-7649


Trina Radcliffe - Started as a community partner, became an employee.

trinaradcliffe@gmail.com

403-559-9207

Trevor Beckman - Met in a professonal capacity, set up and ran a communications firm with 15 employees together, still work on various client work together.

tbeckman@storycommunications.ca

403-461-7733

Jo Pataky - Met in a professional capacity and has worked with me on several dozen projects over the years for projects as small as $200 and as large as $200,000.

jo@purrenergy.com

403-813-2075

I take my work very seriously; myself, less so.

Ceilidh Price

Let's Connect

Ceilidh Price

I'd love to continue our story together!

403-462-7895

ceilidh.price@gmail.com

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