About Toby

The founder and CEO of Prescient Digital Media, Toby is a senior e-business consultant with particular expertise in the area of Internet and intranet planning and communications. A specialist in Web and intranet planning and measurement, Toby has led his company to many awards in the past two years including an illustrious Webby Award.

A frequent speaker and writer, Toby has contributed to two books and has a third in the works. He speaks at many conferences across the globe and has many big name clients spanning many different industries.
 
A broadcast journalist turned consultant, Toby founded and launched Prescient in early 2001.

A recognized North American expert on effective web planning, communication, benchmarking and best practice measurement (ROI), Toby is the author of Finding ROI, a leading study conducted on intranet Return on Investment that included participants such as KPMG, Scotiabank, Volvo, Shell, Royal Bank, New York Life, HP and others. Leading companies such as the New York Times, Intel, PBS, the Bank of Canada and many others have bought his white paper that has been read by thousands.

Toby is a regular writer for CIO.com, Darwin Magazine and others and is a popular speaker across North America at conferences by the Conference Board, IQPC, IABC, Ragan, and others. He is also a regular blogger at IntranetBlog, GetStrategic, eHealth News and Communitelligence.com.

He has led Prescient Digital Media and clients to win 15 awards in the past two years from the International Association of Business Communicators, Canadian Public Relations Society, a the 2004 Webby Award for Best Government + Law Website on the Internet (for HealthyOntario.com).

Recent Speaking

    * 2006 Web Content Management (Ragan), December 7-8, 2006  
    * How to fix a broken intranet, November 29, 2006  
    * 2006 Intranet Benchmarking Forum Live, October 5, 2006
    * 2006 Corporate Reputation and Communication Conference: Delivering on the Promise (Conference Board), September 27, 2006   New York, NY
    * Top 5 Traits of A Successful Intranet (Ragan Webinar), September 13, 2006  
    * Conference Board - 2006 Communicating Employee Benefits Seminars, June 1, 2006  
    * 2006 Communicating Employee Benefits Seminars (Conference Board), June 22, 2006  
    * 2006 Information Highways Conference, March 29, 2006  
    * Intranet Insider World Tour with Sodexho, Webinar, Presented by Toby Ward   January 11, 2006