Member Profile- Cybèle Wilson

A Life of Service

When someone tells you that they needed less self-discipline to thrive at CMR and RMC than they did as a 16-year-old ballerina you know that you are talking to someone who is naturally focussed on the task at hand.

Cybèle Wilson has turned a 28-year career in military healthcare management into a senior advisory role with the Chief of Military Personnel and a seat on her local municipal council in Quebec.  The thread connecting all of her experiences is service.  Cybèle has a reputation for passionately giving of herself for the benefit of her family, her teams and her communities.

“I find that even relatively normal experiences in the military like the giving of bad news and the consolation of others through their grief have made me the advisor and councillor that I am.  I feel like I know what to say and do at the right time because of the experiences I had in uniform.”

“It’s really about the art of listening” she says.  “You cannot be a good master corporal or platoon commander if you don’t listen and you cannot be a good city councillor if you don’t listen.”  Cybèle rose well above platoon commander in her career and held two command appointments at the rank of Lt Col.  As well as those postings she has also fit in time as a change agent within Veterans Affairs when fellow Treble Victor member, the Hon Erin O’Toole was the Minister, as a project manager at Accrediation Canada International and in a business development role with the Conference of Defence Associations.

“I haven’t really planned to get where I am and I don’t have specific plans going forward.  I just know that what I do in the future will align with my values and I know it’ll be something that allows me to serve my community.”  We bet that it will!  Helping others does not require discipline for Cybèle, she does that naturally.