2025 WIN Emerging Leader Winner & 2026 WIN Awards Judge

Holynde Smiechowski is the Corporate AI Lead at PCL Construction, where she is building and running the company’s enterprisewide AI operations, by hardwiring technology into how the business executes, adapts, and scales. Since joining PCL in 2012, she has repeatedly turned complexity into results, delivering highstakes projects across health care, commercial, entertainment, and civil infrastructure, anchored by rigorous contract management and execution discipline.

Her career is marked by grit, adaptability, and a peoplefirst leadership style that earns trust in moments that matter. Operating where strategy meets delivery, Holynde drives change that sticks. Helping teams cut through uncertainty, modernize how work gets done, and move innovation out of theory and into practice.

Today, she is embedding AI directly into enterprise operations, building real capability through learning, disciplined experimentation, and confident adoption. A Board Member of Canadian Construction Women, Corporate Winner of PCLs Robert Stollery Construction Leadership Award in 2020, and the 2025 Women’s Infrastructure Network Emerging Leader Award recipient, Holynde is redefining what leadership looks like at the intersection of infrastructure, technology, and impact.