For conference organizers, journalists, podcast hosts, partners and organizations introducing me, the biographies and media information below may be used with attribution.
Co-founder and Executive Director of IIBD, an independent Canadian nonprofit advancing data accountability in public decisions, and CEO of Artefact91. Romain Williams leads across institutional strategy, governance, partnerships, positioning and public engagement, in Canada and internationally.
Her experience spans nonprofit leadership, communications, research, advocacy, international development, and environment and sustainability.
Her work is connected by an interest in how institutions understand complex environments, make decisions, engage the people around those decisions and translate strategy into action.
Romain’s academic background includes graduate study in Energy and Environmental Law and International Disaster Management, alongside International Relations.
She is also a published contributor and research co-author whose work examines institutions, public decisions, accountability and the systems through which ideas become action.
Co-founder and Executive Director of IIBD, an independent Canadian nonprofit advancing data accountability in public decisions, and CEO of Artefact91. Romain Williams leads across institutional strategy, governance, partnerships, positioning and public engagement, in Canada and internationally.
Her experience spans nonprofit leadership, research, advocacy, international development, and environment and sustainability. Her academic background spans Energy and Environmental Law, International Disaster Management and International Relations. She is a published contributor and research co-author on institutions, public decisions and accountability, and was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch in 2024. Her work is connected by an interest in how institutions read complex environments, decide, and turn strategy into action.
Co-founder and Executive Director of IIBD and CEO of Artefact91. Romain Williams works across organizational strategy, public engagement, institutional positioning and consequential decision-making, with graduate training in environmental law, disaster management and international relations. She is a published contributor on institutions, public decisions and accountability.
Our next speaker is the co-founder and Executive Director of IIBD and the CEO of Artefact91 — an executive whose career has moved steadily closer to the decisions organizations have to make.
IIBD examines the data and systems behind public decisions. She has led communications, engagement and strategy across nonprofit, research, advocacy and international environments, holds graduate degrees in Energy and Environmental Law and in International Disaster Management, and is a published contributor on institutions and accountability.
She argues that communication should begin closer to the decision. Please join me in welcoming Romain Williams.
Why communications leaders need access to the decisions they are expected to explain.
Invite me to speak →Recognizing when an apparent messaging problem is actually an organizational problem.
Invite me to speak →What foresight can contribute when leaders cannot predict what comes next.
Invite me to speak →What changes when participation is connected to actual decision-making.
Invite me to speak →Why credibility cannot be manufactured at the moment it becomes necessary.
Invite me to speak →Systems, uncertainty, regulation and long-term institutional decision-making.
Invite me to speak →Romain Williams — Strategy · Communications · Institutional Leadership, Writer and Advisor
Shortened version: Romain Williams — Strategic Communications Leader
Romain Williams
romain@artefact91.com
LinkedIn
Citing Romain’s work?
Full bibliography with citations on Ideas →