Stewart Wong
An experienced charitable health sector leader and senior communications professional, Stewart brings a wealth of experience in strategy, leadership, communications, operations, sustainability and advocacy. He has a passion for service and for delivering on Holland Bloorview’s vision of the most meaningful and healthy futures for all children, youth and families.
Stewart joined Holland Bloorview in 2016 as vice president, communications, marketing and advocacy. An award-winning communicator, Stewart is recognized as a highly engaged leader of teams, merging high performance, collaboration, humour and impactful results in all he does. During his time at Holland Bloorview, Stewart has served as co-chair of the pandemic steering committee, led the implementation of child-friendly, accessible COVID-19 vaccine clinics and played key leadership roles in Holland Bloorview’s last two 100% achievement accreditation cycles. He currently co-chairs the hospital’s steering committee on emergency management.
In 2023, Stewart was appointed to his current role, providing executive oversight of communications, strategy and sustainability which includes building, environmental and food services. Prior to Holland Bloorview, Stewart spent nearly 15 years working at two of Canada’s largest national health charities, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Arthritis Society. He served in a variety of roles covering fundraising, strategy, marketing, media relations and communications.
On a volunteer basis, Stewart has served as a board member and vice-president of government relations at the Greater Toronto Chapter Association of Fundraising Professionals. He also volunteered with Imagine Canada as a peer reviewer for the Standards Program and worked as a press operations supervisor at the 2015 Pan Am Games. Stewart currently sits on the board of the Ontario Caregiving Organization.
Stewart has taught corporate social responsibility as a part-time professor in the Public Relations Certificate program at Humber College and sits on their PR program advisory committee. Stewart is member of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network Sustainable Health System community of practice where he contributes to system-level initiatives focused on environmental sustainability.
