Hi! I’m Dr. Dawn Henwood, Founder of Clarity Connect

It's become almost cliché to talk about research and innovation as the hope for humanity's future, but I believe it!

I love working with folks who are tackling the most urgent issues of our time in domains such as health, climate, housing, and agriculture. Uncovering and expressing their stories takes us one step closer to a better world. 

As a literary scholar, I studied "social protest fiction" of the nineteenth century because I was fascinated by the way that novelists like Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin) used story to advocate for social reform.

As a writer outside of academia, I've published magazine articles, op-ed columns, and two books on technical and business communication. I've also created or co-created the entire alphabet of corporate communication and learning products, from annual reports to Zoom presentations, including videos and eLearning courses.

As a trainer and coach, I've taught or supervised more than a thousand students and professionals, created more than a dozen communication courses (including a 5-level program for a global consulting firm, which ran for more than 7 years), and developed the Technical Writing Certificate program offered through Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Open Learning (which has been running for more than 10 years).

For more than two decades, I've had the privilege of serving a wide variety of clients, from startups to multinationals, across a broad span of disciplines and sectors. The more complex the problem, the more motivated I am to help research solve it.