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Sharon Steele

Captain · DISC type DS
Senior Director, AI Enablement at CIBC
📍 Canada

Sharon is the Senior Director of AI Enablement at CIBC, where she leads enterprise transformation using AI/ML products. With a background spanning finance, health, and legal sectors, and a Gold Medal-winning MBA, she champions a disciplined, research-driven approach to innovation. Colleagues describe her as strategic, charismatic, and an out-of-the-box thinker.

As a mother to three daughters, Sharon is a passionate advocate for womens empowerment. She created SheWeSafe.com, an initiative dedicated to womens safety. Her interests include immersive experiences like remote scuba diving, and she is currently pursuing Environmental Studies to deepen her understanding of AIs impact.

Unique fact: After being unable to answer a question on AIs environmental impact, she immediately enrolled in an Environmental Studies program to find the answer.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Senior Director, AI Enablement
Job Level
Senior
Location
Canada
Personality Overview

How Sharon shows up

Long-Term Thinker
Consummate Professional
Planner & Achiever

They might take some time to make their mind up but once they do, they don't change it easily. Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time.

Priorities

Topics Sharon cares about

Disciplined Innovation
Believes innovation is not just ideas but a rigorous process of research, experimentation, and focus. She intentionally seeks out discomfort to challenge assumptions and drive progress.
AI for Transformation
Her career is focused on spearheading enterprise-wide AI initiatives to enable scalable, measurable change and deliver tangible business benefits for major financial institutions.
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Career

Work history

9-2025
Senior Director, AI Enablement
CIBC
2-2025 - 9-2025
AI Enablement Consultant
CIBC
1-2022 - 1-2025
Director Innovation - Standards
CSA Group
5-2021 - 3-2023
Product Advisor
AgeRate
4-2019 - 1-2022
Director Emerging AI & Analytics Solutions
Scotiabank
In the press

Media appearances

Innovation Through Intentional Discomfort – Innovation Interview with Sharon Steele (CIBC). Featured in Innovation Strategy
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Future Festival World Summit – Panel Speaker Sharon Steele (Senior Director, AI Enablement, CIBC). Featured in Future Festival
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Education
2015 - 6-2017
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Gold Medal Recipient | Accelerated
Wilfrid Laurier University
2012 - 2014
Certificate Advancing the AODA: Principles and Practices of Accessibility
Toronto Metropolitan University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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