Testimonials
Working with Salimah is an absolute joy. She is one of the best managers I’ve ever worked with. Her ability to support the professional goals of her direct reports while still driving business impact is unparalleled. Salimah strikes a balance between challenging teammates to grow while giving them the support they need to be successful. Salimah has an incredible mind for operations. I learned so much from working with her that I’m sure will serve me throughout my career (e.g. her project planning framework). Salimah is also an incredibly reliable teammate. I cannot think of a single instance in which she missed a deadline or failed to deliver on a commitment. She manages her time effectively such that she can juggle a number of projects at a time while still making herself available to tend fires as they arise. Aside from her people management and business impact, working with Salimah is a pleasure. Any workplace would be lucky to have her.
Salimah is a very detailed oriented individual with the passion to pursue a project to completion. She is both compassionate and creative with an eye for including all voices in a discussion. Salimah could manage demanding timelines, competing priorities, and company-wide initiatives or events with ease.
— Josh Proulx, Chief Data Scientist at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on January 15th, 2021
It's rare to come across a person who possesses the kind of organizational skills that Salimah has. I had the pleasure of working with her on a number of projects at Safe & Reliable and was always impressed by her natural ability to focus on the important tasks at hand and rally the necessary people and resources to get them done. Salimah isn't the kind of person that sits around waiting for things to happen and improve. She's the kind of person that proactively looks for ideas and solutions. She is one with sound judgement with a grounded perspective and shares her thoughts and opinions in a way that is authentic and valued. As a team member or leader, Salimah earns my highest recommendation.
— Chad Lanenga, Director of Design at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on January 15th, 2021
Ridiculously efficient with steadfast integrity is what comes to mind when I think of Salimah Ismail. I had the pleasure of working with Salimah for almost 2 years at Safe & Reliable Healthcare (S&R) where we collaborated on multiple projects. Salimah expertly filled the role of Operations Manager. She produced the S&R podcast series, optimized our internal operations, created the S&R Culture Code and communication standard. I was particularly impressed by Salimah’s ability to gracefully handle even the toughest clients. Her ability to juggle multiple projects was seamless and she made a dramatic difference in the productivity of S&R. Salimah planned the best team activities and company retreats that were fun, full of learning, and brought us closer together which is priceless for a remote company. As a team member, leader, or coach, Salimah earns my highest recommendation.
— Jean-Ann Wurtz, HRO & LENS Expert at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on January 7th, 2021
Salimah is one of the most organized, driven, and forward-thinking individuals I've ever met. She is incredible at taking a project from the vaguest, high-level version to a completed product that exceeds expectations in every way. Salimah makes others better as she works to better herself and brings that energy into everything she tackles. I have complete confidence in her ability to succeed and excel at whatever challenge she undertakes.
— Dan Cramer, Chief Technology Officer at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on January 4th, 2021
Salimah Ismail exemplifies professionalism while making the client/customer needs at the core of everything she does. She has the gift to exceed the client/customer needs by anticipating them before they are requested. Ms. Ismail is phenomenal at reviewing and evaluating the entire picture before taking action. She is very creative and able to think outside the box with innovative solutions. In Ms. Ismail's most recent job, she provided operational structure within the company and was actually the glue for operations across the board. She will be missed and hard to replace. Anyone will discover a treasure by adding Ms. Ismail to one's team/company.
— Dr. Joan Gordon, High Reliability Organization Expert at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on January 4th, 2021
Salimah is a powerful change agent and professional. She anticipates needs, is astute a planning, executes with precision and couples her energy with a charm and kindness that is exceptional. She possesses creativity in considering ways to improve work and work flows, offers suggestions and ideas but actively listens to others, creates meaningful engagements in problem solving and is the ultimate team member. She possesses a wider variety of skills using social and other media, such as creating and narrating podcasts. I would heartily endorse Salimah for a company who is positioned for great success!
— Maureen Frye, Senior High Reliability Organization Expert at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on January 4th, 2021
Salimah is a tremendous asset to any organization. During our time together with Safe and Reliable Care, LLC, Salimah was always an absolute pleasure to work with. In addition to be exceedingly knowledgeable in all facets of the complex operation, she answered all inquiries - I had many! - in a kind and patient manner. She's simply awesome!
— Dr. Mark Brouker Captain, U.S. Navy, Leader Coach at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on January 2nd, 2021
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Salimah when S&R was a partner with my business line at Premier and then continuing as a joined the firm in late 2019. Salimah is an absolute delight to work with: energetic, brilliant, innovative and customer focused. She was always focused on making S&R a better company; whether it was focusing on staff satisfaction, supporting diversity or developing tools to improve work flow. She will definitely be missed and I sincerely hope our paths will cross again.
— Paul Green, Senior Transformation Leader at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on December 31st, 2020
Salimah is a highly talented customer-focused operations manager. She is always focused on the needs of whoever she encounters, and follows through effectively. She develops and implements efficient solutions for a variety of situations. I would be happy to recommend Salimah in any role she pursues, and I would enjoy working again with her in the future.
— Barbara Spreadbury, High Reliability Expert at Safe & Reliable Healthcare
Shared on linkedin on December 29th, 2020
Salimah was a transformational force at IDF. She came in and made dramatic improvements to our database, our internal policies and processes, and numerous projects that she was involved with. We were lucky to have her for as long as we did as she not only was a great colleague - but she left her position in better shape than she found it. She will be missed.
— John Boyle, President & CEO of the Immune Deficiency Foundation
Shared on linkedin on March 28, 2019
Salimah has been so great to work with. She is very intuitive and was always one step ahead of knowing what needs to be done. She shows great initiative and was always willing to take on any task, big or small. She implemented instrumental changes to our website on her own initiative that increased productivity by leaps and bounds for us. She showed great leadership with the implementation of our new phone system and took it upon herself to become an expert with the system. Her skill set is so diverse. From front end customer service, leading meetings, assisting with strategic planning, setting agenda's, assisting with technology initiatives, she can do it all. Salimah quickly became an important asset to our leadership group and will be missed. She has so much potential and is guaranteed success no matter what role she is in. She is truly a high performer and an excellent employee. Her future looks very bright.
— Laura Bolster, President & COO of Megson FitzPatrick Insurance Services
Shared on linkedin on August 18, 2016
I have had the pleasure of working directly with Salimah for a few years. Its extremely rare to find someone with the character and skill set of Salimah. She combines a very high level of intelligence and creativity with a confidence level that naturally empowers a wonderful problem solving ability that will be very hard for us to replace. Her dedication and work ethic have made a real impact on our organization. We will dearly miss Salimah and wish her every success in her next chapter.
— Jay Tuson, CEO & Director of Sales of Megson FitzPatrick Insurance Services
Shared on linkedin on August 10, 2016
I have had the pleasure of working with Salimah for the last couple of years. For the last 18 months we worked together on the executive management team. My position is the Director of Personal Insurance at Megson Fitzpatrick. During the last 3 years the personal insurance team has undergone tremendous change and along with that comes tremendous challenges. During this period, Salimah was consistently the "go to" person when our team was faced with a challenge and we were looking for creative solutions on how to manage the challenge. During the time that Salimah worked with us we underwent a major change to our broker management system going from a 35 year old dos based system to a state of the art and first in Canada system. We did the same with our telephone system for our five offices and also a major re-organization of our staff and work distribution. During all of those projects, Salimah was a key person for all of our management team to look to for problem solving. During the last six months our department has taken on a few new initiatives with making our website more interactive for our clients and our team. As the director, I knew what I wanted and would only have to describe it to Salimah and she would say, "Leave it with me" and very shortly after that, she would come to me with a plan. In addition to working on very diverse and sometimes challenging problems, Salimah would be the first to step up if we needed a receptionist, an automobile insurance agent or any other admin task that needed to be completed. No job was too big or too small for Salimah. Salimah has unending enthusiasm for learning and problem solving. She was always a pleasure to work with and was respected by every member of our team. Her presence will be truly missed in our organization.
— Lucille Cuell, Personal Lines Manager of Megson FitzPatrick Insurance Services
Shared on linkedin on August 18, 2016
Salimah has a fantastic ability to lead others by example, using the perfect balance of humour, creativity, and strong dedication to get difficult projects done with a high quality product.
— Joy Mensink, Accounts Manager at Reulatory/Environmental Professional PMO Global Services
Shared on linkedin on December 4, 2013