Marion LaVigne is
president and a principal of Outcrop Ltd., Outcrop Communications Ltd.,
a communications and marketing company headquartered in Yellowknife,
NWT and Up Here Publishing Ltd. She is the founding co-publisher of
Up Here magazine, and continues to be involved with all Up Here’s
periodical publishing projects, including Winter Living, Far North Oil
and Gas Review, Canadian Diamonds and a series of travel and business
annuals.
Marion has managed
a number of socio-economic assessments (BHP, Cominco Polaris), has completed
economic analyses of oil and gas activities in the Mackenzie Beaufort
area, and has assessed tourism industry impacts in a number of regions
of the NWT and Nunavut. She has also developed many business and government
communications programs and tourism marketing programs. And she has
developed and organized major northern events.
Marion has some
30 years experience in the communications field as a corporate communications
manager, a consultant, a lecturer, a workshop leader and a member of
the executive board of the International Association of Business Communicators.
She is a Ryerson journalism graduate.
Prior to moving
to the Northwest Territories 28 years ago, she was communications manager
for Clarkson Gordon/Woods Gordon (now Ernst and Young) Chartered Accountants/Management
Consultants.
Marion is a founding
partner and past chair of the NWT Community Mobilization Partnership,
and a director of the Arctic Institute of North America. She is also
a director of the NWT Power Corporation and is a member of the Canadian
Magazine Publishers Association, the Institute of Communications and
Advertising and the International Association of Business Communicators.
From 1991 until 1996 she was a guest lecturer at the Banff Magazine
Publishing School
In 1989 she was
named woman entrepreneur of the year in the Northwest Territories, and
the following year she received a Successors Award from Canadian Business
magazine.
Marion is a past
director of the Northwest Territories Travel Industry Association, the
Northern Frontier Visitors Association and the Yellowknife Chamber of
Commerce.
