Alan Quarry

Alan Quarry is the “Head Coach and Chief Enthusiasm Officer” of a 125-plus person North American team focused on helping our clients build their business.

Alan joined the Quarry team as its third person in 1983. Since then he has contributed to the Q success story in roles such as: client service director, copywriter, mailroom coordinator, receptionist, media director, integrated communications strategist, U of Q Dean and summer picnic dunk tank target.

Alan has been a director of the Canadian Institute of Communications and Advertising and has twice been president of the Trans Canada Advertising Agency Network (TCAAN). He has taught fourth-year and MBA-level marketing communications courses at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1991 and has served on the professional advisory board of the Graphic Arts and Advertising program at Conestoga College since 1990. Alan is a member of the Chancellors Circle at the University of Waterloo and is also the assistant chair of their advisory committee for the faculty of arts program.

Alan has served the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation since 1988, his local United Way since 1992 and has been nominated for the regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. In 2000, he was elected the first-ever-Canadian president of the Advertising Agency Network International (AANI), a group of 22 agencies from the U.S. and Canada, with 30 affiliated agencies from Europe.

Alan speaks to groups worldwide about how integrated communications can build customer relationships. He has recently spoken in Austria, Sweden, the United States, and the Czech Republic on the power of customer-focused branding and organizational leadership.

Alan believes that in order to innovate and move forward his teammates need the freedom to fly and the freedom to fall. He is often heard proclaiming to his teammates within the Quarry environment, “Heck! I’ve made bigger mistakes than that! Let's learn something and keep moving forward.”

Alan is always proud to point out that Quarry has one of the lowest employee turnover rates in the communications category.

Want to know more?

Send Alan an email or give him a call at 519.570.2020 (ext. 2224) or toll-free in North America at 888.570.2020 to find out more about us. You can also check out Alan’s blog for all the latest.