Communicator of the Year Award
The IABC/BC Communicator of the Year Award recognizes outstanding contributions to business communication by an organizational leader based in British Columbia who is neither a professional communicator nor a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) or the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS). Such contributions include initiating, directing, supporting or sustaining outstanding and effective communication programs.
The recipent is a role model in the community for communicators and non-communicators alike, and is someone whose communication skills and messages have had an impact on the lives of others.
| 2008 | None awarded | |
| 2007 | Dr Patricia Daly |
Chief Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health |
| 2006 | None awarded | |
| 2005 | Dave Mowatt | CEO, Vancity Savings Credit Union |
| 2004 | Paul Hatings | President, QLT |
| 2003 | Sandy Riley | President (volunteer), Alzheimer Society of BC |
| 2002 | Alanna Hendren | Developmental Disabilities Association |
| 2001 | Dr Ivo Olivotto | Radiation Oncologist, BC Cancer Agency |
| 2000 | Phil Hasson | CEO, Providence Health Care |
| 1999 | Tom Stephens | CEO, MacMillan Bloedel |
| 1998 | Dr Martha Piper | Chancellor/President, UBC |
| 1997 | Rick Hansen | Rick Hansen Institute |
| 1996 | Dr Bruce Campana | ER, Vancouver Hospital |
| 1995 | Sid Fattedad | CEO, Canadian Airlines |
| 1994 | Constable Anne Drennan | Vancouver Police |
| 1993 | Dr Peter Jepson-Young |
AIDS activist |
| 1992 | Gordon Wilson | Head of BC Liberal Party |
| 1991 | Ray Smith | Chairman of the Board, MacMillan Bloedel |
| 1990 | David Lam | Lieutenant-Governor of BC |
