...an enlightened creative agency

Soaz Communications, Soaz Business Development, and Soaz Exhibitions are three distinct entities in pursuit of the same objective: help you stand out.

...a good listener

Soaz is people-oriented, interested in your concerns and expectations…true to a philosophy that translates into a special way of dealing with you.

...a business that is moving ahead

Soaz is a new brand of Sono design, a company specializing in sound design and the new media founded in 1989. Over the years, and on the strength of the experience it gained, Sono design has been extending its range of services in order to better serve its clients.

...a team of bridge builders

Soaz is building bridges between the wealth of the cultural universe and the effervescent vitality of the business world. This unique blend of mutually-strengthening experiences and skills works to make your project unique.

Before

We listen to you talk about your organisation, its positioning, its projects and its challenges. Thus, we can better understand your expectations and guide your thinking with your realities in mind.

You are unique and Soaz recognizes it

We suggest ways to create tools that will address your objectives and respect your philosophy and your budget, in keeping with your strategic positioning.

For Soaz, this is a matter of integrity

We select our staff on the basis of their technical skills and their capacity to generate human synergy. We assign them to your business on the basis of their professional profile and their capacity to fulfil your expectations.

Soaz is a people-oriented organisation

During

We imagine, create, and execute tailor-made solutions that seduce the eye, the ear, the heart, and the brain. Then, we use them to produce results that are equally seductive!
Soaz attracts people from the worlds of communications, marketing, sales, sound, graphic design, and technology.

We offer effective talent that delivers results

We maximise the effectiveness of your investments by carefully adjusting our fire at every stage of your project.

We take nothing for granted

After

We propose concrete follow-ups tied to the execution of the project to ensure you draw the maximum strategic and financial impact from our joint venture.

As always, the Soaz signature stands for solutions from A to Z

A team of bridge builders

Describing the Soaz team is to evoke notions of ...

• … a gathering of skills working with you in a climate of trust
• … the creativity inherent to each of our resources
• … a bank of multidisciplinary communications talent with roots that can be traced to the worlds of culture and business
• … the creative power of carefully blended skills

The strength of the Soaz team rests on a core team of seven and some thirty partners from specialized fields, whose passion for innovation inspires and drives every one of their concepts and executions. Over the years, millions of visitors, from the world over, have lived and shared this passion through multimedia presentations, virtual reconstructions, and major events.

Diane Leboeuf, Founder and President

A natural leader, creative and communicative by nature and by training, Diane Leboeuf explores uncharted paths generating ideas, concepts, and solutions. Her accomplishments bear the seal of a fighting, persevering, and innovative visionary, forever in search of excellence.

karine Di Genova, Muséologue et chargée de projet

Anne-Marie Dinelle, Manager - Business development

The development of new markets and the promotion of Soaz’ services and products are all Anne-Marie needs to motivate herself. Her training and experience in all areas of finance and human resources, as well as in communications and marketing, have endowed her with a comprehensive vision of the challenges faced by today’s organisations. Her imposing background allows her to recommend approaches that are custom-designed and adapted to individual client needs.

Bernard Duguay, Director, Lucion Media

Sylvie Durand, Vice-President

Sylvie Durand knows how to manage and coordinate projects. More importantly, she thrives on the idea. For over 20 years, Sylvie has plied her trade in the cultural domain, designing and organising projects with the ease, thoroughness, and vitality that characterize her. She finds stimulation in the opportunity to resolve difficult challenges through innovative solutions.

Francine Gaulin, Scriptwriter

Nathalie Labrèche, Administrative Assistant

Faithful keeper of the administrative control that is so essential to the success of all projects, Nathalie is also their anchor, a one-woman show that keeps all informed, ensures compliance with agreements, runs the office, and assists team members whenever needed.

Gaétan Leboeuf, Director and Composer

One of the agency’s original staffers, author, composer, and performer Gaétan Leboeuf acts as director and composer for Soaz. His musical talent and extensive experience in cinema, the arts, and the theatre combine to make him an accomplished producer of audio guides, soundscapes, videos, business presentations, and other promotional documents. All bear his trademark nuances and depth, to the delight of clients.

Manon Richard, Vice-President - Communications

Manon is a marketing communications and strategy consultant whose task is to ensure strict communications discipline in all phases of a project. To that end, she ensures that every message meets the test of transparency, fluidity, and accessibility. Her focus is on creativity, innovation, and capacity to astonish.

A number of other partners support the core team. Over the years, Soaz has relied on their skills in the fields of public relations and advertising, photography, and the new media.

2006

Deputy Minister’s Pride and Recognition Awards in Ottawa for our participation in Arctic Day at the UN Conference on Climatic Change.

2006

Prix d’excellence de la Société des musées québécois for the Rotations extrêmes exhibition at the Montréal Science Centre, (audiovisual and multimedia creation in cooperation with Techni-Logique).

2004

Museum Honorable Mention of American Association of Museum
Awards of outstanding achievements of the Canadian Museums Association Multimedia Category, for its interactive production titled Jour de marché, 1750, a permanent feature of Ici naquit Montréal at the Pointe-à-Callière museum.

2003

Prix Multimédia et audiovisuel Télé-Québec de la Société des Musées québécois for its virtual exhibition titled Deux quotidiens se rencontrent at the McCord Museum.

2001 - 2002

Selection at the First Peoples’ Festival of two video productions for the First Nations Garden of the Montréal Botanical Garden and of the McCord Museum.

2001

Prix Jacques-Couture (Prix Québécois de la Citoyenneté) for the La Grande Paix de Montreal 1701 exhibition at the Pointe-à-Callière museum.