Participants
Stephanie Bertels Peter Block Oana Branzei Vickie Cammack Michelle Corfield Rob Cottingham Tina Dacin Kelly Daniels Maxine Davis Silvia Dorado Graham Dover Tim Draimin Al Etmanski Margo Fryer Jacqueline Go Joanne Granek Paul Hasselback Helen Haugh Patrick Henderson Stephen Huddart Robert Kalyesubula Nadia Kanegai Alixe Knighton Jan Kietzmann Simon Kwok Tom Lawrence Donald MacPherson Johanna Mair Judith Marcuse Gillian Maxwell John McKnight David Mitchell Daphne Nederhorst Lisa Papania Ana María Peredo Moura Quayle Trish Reay Christian Seelos Mark Selman Shawn Smith Shauna Sylvester James Tansey Frances Westley Charlene Zietsma
Stephanie Bertels (SFU Business)
Stephanie holds a PhD in strategy and global management and sustainable development from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. Prior to earning her PhD, Stephanie worked in industry as an environmental engineer. An Assistant Professor in Technology and Operations Management at SFU Surrey, Stephanie’s research interests include innovations related to sustainability, institutional change, inter-organizational collaboration, and resilience and reliability. Her current research bridges organization theory and the issues surrounding sustainable development to explore how organizations can develop and implement innovative strategies for a more sustainable future. Read more
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Peter Block (designedLearning)
Peter Block is an author, consultant, and citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. His work is about empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, and the reconciliation of community. He is the author of several best selling books, the most widely known being Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used; Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest and The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work. His latest book is Community: The Structure of Belonging. Peter is the recipient of the Organization Development Network’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 he received their first place Members’ Choice Award, which recognized Flawless Consulting as the most influential book for OD practitioners over the past 40 years. Peter is a partner in Designed Learning (www.designedlearning.com), a training company that offers workshops designed by Peter to build the skills outlined in his books. With other volunteers in Cincinnati, Peter began A Small Group (www.asmallgroup.net), whose work is to create a new community narrative and to bring his work on civic engagement into being. He is active with Elementz, a Hip Hop urban youth center, and Cincinnati Public Radio. Read more
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Oana Branzei (University of Western Ontario)
Oana Branzei is the David G. Burgoyne Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. As an academic, teacher and consultant, Oana’s research initiatives explore the micro-origins and processes of sustainable competitive advantage, the formation of path-breaking strategies and capabilities, and the creation and diffusion of pro-peace pro-poor business models. Prior to joining Ivey, Oana was part of the faculty of the Schulich School of Business at York University, where she taught in the MBA and the PhD programs, the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA and the Sustainable Enterprise Academy. Dr. Branzei was also a Deputy Director of the Erivan K. Haub Program in Business and Sustainability, and an executive member of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability at York University. Read more
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Vickie Cammack (Tyze Personal Networks)
Vickie is a co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) a pioneer social enterprise supporting families plan for the safety and well being of their family member with a disability. She created PLAN’s Personal Network program, a unique response to the isolation and loneliness experienced by people with disabilities. She is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal of Canada, the Community Living Institute’s Leadership Award, the and along with her husband, Al Etmanski, Simon Fraser University President’s Club Distinguished Community Leadership Award. She co-led a Canadian exploration on sustainability and social innovation, and is a Fellow with Social Innovation Generation, a partnership between the University of Waterloo, MaRS, and J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. In 2008, the Women’s Executive Network named Vickie one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Read more
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Michelle Corfield (Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council)
Dr. Michelle Corfield serves as the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Vice President. In this elected capacity, she is a highly respected, active member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Economic Development Corporation, NINTCAMS Board, BC AHRDA, BC Fisheries Council, Interim Child and Family Wellness Council, and the Interim Justice Council. Michelle is also one of the founding partners of the BC Multi-Sectoral Leadership Initiative. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her roles. She has completed her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership Management, Masters of Conflict Analysis and Management, and B.A. in First Nations Studies. Michelle has worked with the Nuu-chah-nulth treaty table for over the past 12years, and was the Manager for the Nuu-chah-nulth Treaty Table prior to becoming NTC Vice President. She is also a successful independent businesswoman, operating a Seafood Harvesting company for the past nine years, adding to her 17 years of entrepreneurial experience. Dr. Corfield has proven herself to be a highly professional individual, with a keen understanding and respect of cultural protocols and teachings. As an innovative facilitator, mediator, and process designer, Michelle believes and supports ideas that promote systemic change for the betterment of First Nations People. She contributes a very unique perspective to advancing First Nations Issues at all levels.
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Tina Dacin (Queen’s School of Business)
Tina Dacin is the E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behavior in the Queen’s School of Business. She is also the Director of the Centre for Responsible Leadership and area coordinator of the Organizational Behavior area group. Tina received her doctorate from the University of Toronto and prior to joining Queen’s University, she spent nine years at Texas A&M University. Tina’s research interests include institutional change, organizational traditions, social entrepreneurship and partner selection in alliances. Her work has been published in leading management journals and she currently serves as senior editor for Organization Science and is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management & Governance and Strategic Management Journal. She has previously served as Departmental Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of Management Inquiry and has been on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of International Business Studies and Strategic Organization. Tina teaches several courses in leadership, change and strategy. She has been a regular visitor at the Kellogg School of Management where she taught the core leadership class to the full-time and Executive MBAs. She has also been a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. Last year, she was inducted as a Visiting fellow at Sidney Sussex College and the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Read more
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Kelly Daniels (Capital Regional District)
Kelly began his career in local government working for the City of St. Albert, Alberta shortly after graduating from university with a B.A. in Recreation Administration. He worked in Fort Saskatchewan and in Grande Prairie, Alberta where he rose to City Manager before moving to Vancouver Island and the Regional District of Nanaimo as the C.A.O. for 12 years. Kelly was appointed as Chief Administrative Officer for the Capital Regional District in 2005. The Capital Regional District is undergoing many fundamental changes as it moves to respond to the many social and environmental challenges facing the Region. The CRD is creating new structures to affect a more radical change in social behavior in the Region to reduce overall water consumption, meet aggressive climate action targets by changing travel and consumer habits and being a leader in resource recovery and systems thinking in the development of natural local government infrastructure. The interplay between social innovation and social institutions is of keen interest to Kelly as the CRD evolves through restructuring changes to its fundamental values and the development of new leaders through its “i-Lead” program developed with Royal Roads University.
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Maxine Davis (Dr Peter AIDS Foundation)
Maxine Davis has been Executive Director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation since 1997. She first joined the organization to oversee implementation of the Dr. Peter Centre Day Health Program. Maxine’s professional career has focused on community health care in Metro Vancouver. In her previous position as Assistant Director, Continuing Care Division, Vancouver Health Department (now Vancouver Coastal Health Authority), she was responsible for case management and contracted services. Maxine is passionate about making civil society changes that will improve the health and lives of people living with HIV/AIDS. She has contributed to local, national and international initiatives, particularly in relation to the HIV/AIDS intersect with mental illness, addiction and homelessness. Maxine graduated from Memorial University (BA, Social Work) in 1973. She is active in a variety of organizations, including the International AIDS Society and Vancouver Board of Trade. Maxine describes her commitment to the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation and Dr. Peter Centre as the most profoundly life-enriching work of her career.
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Silvia Dorado (University of Rhode Island)
Silvia received her B.A. degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), her M.A. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA USA) and her Ph.D. from McGill University (Montreal, QC Canada). Her research addresses the development of organizations and interorganizational arrangements involving multiple goals, such as profit and service or learning and service. She has published in Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal of Development Entrepreneurship, Organization Studies, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Public Administration and Development, and in the International Review of Administrative Science. Read more
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Graham Dover (SFU Business)
Graham Dover is a fourth year doctoral student in the Management and Organization Studies area at SFU Business. Graham began his studies in September 2006, supervised by Tom Lawrence and is now working on his dissertation topic, “transformative social innovation”. Graham came to SFU from the United Kingdom where he most recently worked as a management consultant with clients in both the voluntary and private sectors. Before that, Graham completed a MSc in Voluntary Sector Organization, at the London School of Economics, which he received with Distinction and was awarded the Richard Titmus Examination Prize. Prior to his graduate studies, Graham received a First Class Honors BSc in Management and Administrative Studies at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Read more
Tim Draimin (Social Innovation Generation)
Tim is the Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) – a national partnership fostering social innovation in Canada through research, education, advocacy, and collaboration. SiG is partnership among The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District, the University of Waterloo and Vancouver’s PLAN Institute. Tim is the chair of Causeway, a collaborative accelerating the expansion of a social finance marketplace in Canada. Causeways co-hosts, with MaRS, Canada’s national conference on social finance: the Social Finance Forum. Tim is the author of Canada’s first national study of social entrepreneurship. He speaks frequently to conferences and associations on social innovation, social enterprise and social finance. This past year he led two intensive study tours (to the UK and SoCap09 [Social Capital Markets/San Francisco]) on social innovation and social finance involving non-profit, foundation, government and social purpose business leaders. He was the founding CEO of Tides Canada Foundation, which focuses on the environment and social justice. He guided the Foundation’s expansion as Canada’s first national mission-led public foundation, established Canada’s first national support system for social entrepreneurs – Tides Canada Initiatives (formerly Sage Centre) – and supported an innovative and world-renowned model of integrated conservation: BC’s Great Bear Rainforest initiative. He continues to serve Tides Canada as a Senior Fellow. www.sigeneration.ca
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Al Etmanski (Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network – PLAN)
Al is an author, advocate and social entrepreneur specializing in innovative, multi-sectoral solutions to social challenges. He is President and co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN), assisting families across Canada and globally, address the financial and social well-being of their relative with a disability, particularly after their parents die. He proposed and led the successful campaign to establish the world’s first savings plan (Registered Disability Savings Plan – RDSP) for people with disabilities.Al is the author of two best selling books: A Good Life – For You and Your Relative with a Disability and Safe and Secure. He admits to having played air guitar with Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner-Overdrive in a rock video. He is a founding member of the J W McConnell Family Foundation’s, Social Innovation Generation (SIG) collaboration, dedicated to scaling up solutions to deeply rooted social problems and exploring new methods of financing the social sector. Al was one of the first two Canadians accepted into Ashoka’s prestigious global fellowship of social entrepreneurs. He has been a faculty member of John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development Institute since 1995. He has received the Queen’s Jubilee medal; Simon Fraser University’s Distinguished Leadership Award; the Civic Merit award from the City of Vancouver and the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Medal. Websites reflecting Al’s involvement include:
www.plan.ca – original organization, www.planinstitute.ca – global resource for families, www.sigeneration.ca – Social Innovation Generation, www.philia.ca – exploring concepts of citizenship and disability, www.socialaudit.ca – PLAN is the first Canadian non profit to conduct independent social audits, www.tiesthatbind.ca – companion website for the Ties That Bind documentary on PLAN’s work, www.nurturingbelonging.ca – initiative to address isolation and loneliness and promote belonging, www.abcdinstitute.org – John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development Institute, www.ashoka.ca – links to the world’s leading social entrepreneur network.
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Margo Fryer (UBC Learning Exchange & UBC Community Learning Initiative)
Margo is the founding Director of both the UBC Learning Exchange and the UBC-Community Learning Initiative, an innovative model for the advancement of course-based Community Service-Learning and Community-Based Research at UBC. Margo is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning. Margo received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC in 2003. Prior to undertaking her PhD program, Margo worked as a researcher in the health and social service fields. She collaborated on research projects with community groups, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. This research was concerned with a wide variety of issues, including the health needs of seniors and women, childhood sexual abuse, and multicultural service delivery. Margo has evaluated policy initiatives such as using community development strategies to promote health, involving the community in health care decision-making, and building collaborative partnerships among health care agencies. Margo has taught research and evaluation principles and skills in workshops across the province and was the originator of the Social Learning Studio course in the School of Community and Regional Planning.
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Jacqueline Go
Jacqueline Go holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration Degree with First Class Honours from Simon Fraser University and has interests in pursuing a career in consulting and strategy with a focus on corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Jacqueline is a globally literate individual with international experiences working in Singapore and studying at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration where she also learned German as a foreign language. Jacqueline has a diverse array of work experiences in marketing, accounting and engineering. She is deeply involved in the community, organizing social advocacy events in Vienna and helping coordinate the Cold Wet Weather Mat Program in the Tri-Cities, the first homeless initiative in Metro Vancouver to use church facilities as temporary shelters. Lobbying local government to amend bylaws, designing event logistics, recruiting and organizing volunteers, and communicating the project to thousands of people, the program is now in its 3rd year. Her work with homelessness won her the SFU Business and CMA Centre for Strategic Change and Performance Management Social Innovation competition and she is currently working to develop a sustainable funding model for housing. Jacqueline enjoys attending conferences, meeting new people and sharing ideas. Jacqueline lives in Vancouver and is committed to continuous learning in order to contribute to creating a more equitable and sustainable world.
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Joanne Granek (SHARE Family and Community Services Society)
Joanne Granek is the Executive Director of SHARE Family & Community Services, a multi-service not for profit organization in the communities of Coquitam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, New Westminster and neighbouring areas. Joanne has been and continues to be involved in a number of initiatives focused on changing the way the social services sector does business with one another and with funders, and the ways that community leadership can work together to set and work towards agreed on priorities to improve the quality of life for all residents of the community. She experiences the frustration of same old and is encouraged by the glimpses of possibility. Joanne also does peer reviews of social service organizations in Canada & the U.S. that are seeing accreditation with CARF International, and provides mentoring to new Executive Directors in her community.
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Paul Hasselback (Interior Health)
Dr. Paul Hasselback is currently the Medical Health Officer for the Central and South Okanagan with the MHO responsibility for Prevention Services portfolio. He was the Senior Medical Health Officer from 2003 – July 2007. Since 1993 he has also held Medical Health Officer positions in Southwestern Alberta, Calgary and Regina. He is a specialist in community medicine and family physician who trained in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and was in family practice in rural Saskatchewan for four years. He has a master’s of science in epidemiology and is an Assistant Clinical Professor in UBC, and Adjuctant Professor at UBC Okanagan. In 2000 he was awarded the Canadian Public Health Association award for “an individual who has significantly advanced the cause, legitimized and stressed the responsibility for the state of the art of the public health”. Read more
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Helen Haugh (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)
Dr. Helen Hugh is the Director of the MPhil in Management Programme and University Senior Lecturer in Community Enterprise. Dr Haugh organised the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Community Enterprise Research Conferences in 2003, 2004 and 2006 respectively. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management. Helen is also responsible for the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme 2008-2010, which offers final year undergraduate or postgraduate students at the University of Cambridge the opportunity to work on social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility projects within the Tata Group of Companies in India.” Read more
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Patrick Henderson (The Trussell Trust)
Paddy Henderson is the Co-founder of The Trussell Trust – a UK community based charity that has used social innovation to set up innovative projects to attack poverty in UK and overseas. In 2000 he pioneered foodbanking in UK to find a creative solution to hidden hunger, uniquely linking the project into the local community in food collection. To maintain project independence and to allow it to reach the most marginalized in society, it is part funded by “Re-store”, a re-cycling social enterprise which has been innovatively set up by the Trust in a marginalised community. This has helped create jobs and some community re-generation. The Trust also “employs” over 50 supported volunteers with a range of disabilities who work in a supported environment in the various projects, which also include 2 community cafes. For this innovative approach The Trust received the first Queens’ Golden Jubilee Award for Voluntary Service in the Community. In order to enable other communities to have access to this project it has been developed into a social franchise. There are now 50 foodbanks operating in a network throughout UK and Northern Ireland. Working overseas Paddy has set up mass feeding, shelter and income generating projects in Armenia, Albania and Bulgaria, particularly focusing on refugees and Roma (gypsy) people. His most recent overseas project was the establishment of a Half Way House for Roma children leaving institutional care, which provided life skills training, accommodation and job placement with a local business. In order to ensure project succession Paddy has handed over day to day operational leadership of the Trust and is working in NZ with his wife Carol trying to establish community based projects in a rural community.”
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Stephen Huddart (J.W. McConnell Foundation)
Stephen is responsible for the Foundation’s granting program and is the Director of SiG@McConnell. His career includes leadership positions in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining the Foundation, he worked with children’s singer Raffi as Executive Director of Troubadour Music Inc. and the non-profit Troubadour Institute. He co-founded and operated the Alma Street Café, a triple bottom line business that was Vancouver’s jazz café of record. He also held several executive positions with the BC SPCA, where he worked on innovations in humane education; animal-assisted therapy; and humane food labeling. Stephen has served on the boards of several post-secondary organizations, including Langara College, the BC Centre for International Education, and the Association of Canadian Community Colleges. He is currently on the boards of the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network and ArtsSmarts. He has a Masters of Management degree from McGill, and is the recipient of awards in several fields, including for social documentary (Festival dei Popoli, Florence); humane education (Latham Foundation, California) and Business Person of the Year (Vancouver, Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce).
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Robert Kalyesubula (Nakaseke Community Development Initiatives)
Nakaseke Community Development Initiatives-NACODI was founded in 2003 by Dr. Robert Kalyesubula and two other medical workers. Robert grew up as an orphan but studied to become a medical doctor. There dream was to provide medical care to the HIV-AIDS ravaged rural areas in Uganda. They have and continue to provide medical care to thousands but also offer homecare for the very sick and provide community health campaigns, protection and care of orphan children and agricultural income projects for vulnerable families. NACODI’s vision is to be a fully self-sustainable program that we can expand to other areas of the country.
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Nadia Kanegai
“Nadia Kanegai of Vanuatu believes the purpose of life is to help others. In fact, her dedication to helping those less fortunate has garnered her an invitation to share her ideas on rehabilitation and poverty reduction with corporate, social sector and philanthropic leaders at the inspiring Connecting for Change Dialogue 2009 in Vancouver that will also host the Dalai Lama. With the assistance of Sawa Global, a local non-profit organization, Kanegai has been able to document her incredible achievements and share her ideas globally. Most of us knew little of Vanuatu until CBS filmed the ninth season of Survivor on these islands but more than 15 years before the television cameras arrived, Nadia Kanegai had been helping the struggling people in her community survive. Growing up on one of the 82 Vanuata islands, Kanegai took her grandmother’s words to heart. She says,“My grandmother told me that the purpose of life is to help others.” During the past 18 years, without funding or support, Kanegai has helped over 10,000 impoverished individuals. She has provided job training for unskilled workers; opened medical clinics, schools, and daycare centres for working mothers; supported solar energy initiatives; rehabilitated gang-involved youth; and helped locals battle their addictions to kava. Her role in the rehabilitation of Morris Ben Joseph, who was proclaimed “the worst criminal in Vanuatu” by the Chief Justice, speaks to her incredible courage and generosity. Kanegai knew she could help him change his ways to become an integral part of the community and that is exactly what she did.”
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Jan Kietzmann (SFU Business)
Assistant professor Jan Kietzmann received his PhD in 2007 from the London School of Economics and joined SFU Business in 2008. Jan’s research interests involve the intersection of mobility of work and wireless computing. Of particular interest are “smart” technologies such as mobile Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) that surpass the basic affordances of mobile telephony. As objects gain an increasingly loud and clear voice in organizational information flows, Jan aims to understand the changing “role of the artifact” as well as the transformation of the individual and the relationships of the mobile worker, his or her colleagues, superiors and customers. Jan further studies the participatory innovation processes that connect organizations with the mobile communities that form their future target audiences, both users and customers. Jan, who has a passionate interest in teaching, now teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Surrey campus, where he likes to incorporate emerging technological inventions and innovations into the classroom experience. Read more.
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Alixe Knighton (Ministry of Aboriginal Relations & Reconciliation)
Through a 20 year career with the British Columbia government working variously with local governments, the community non-profit sector and First Nations, I have lead significant change agendas to realign organizations and relationships with new visions and directions and to create a greater citizen focus. In my current role as the Director of Community Development for the Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, I partner with First Nations, Aboriginal organizations and others in innovative capacity building, economic development, social development and service delivery. This work is most effective when it involves large and diverse networks that are focused on the priorities of the First Nation. My work involves looking for and supporting centres of change in First Nation communities, and includes, for example, creating a social service network to support a northwestern BC First Nation, and partnering in the Aph-cii-uk Initiative (ask me about it!) with the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, Health Canada, and Simon Fraser University.
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Simon Kwok
Simon graduated from SFU last year with a BSc degree in Interaction Design. He worked at BlackBerry maker Research in Motion for 1 year in their user experience design team as well as various other contract work designing and improving desktop, web, and mobile interfaces. Good design, he believes, is the result of thoughtful consideration of people, space and time. His current interest in the interaction design field is in qualitative research and storytelling, which he applies in creating designs and brands that strongly connect with the targeted audiences.
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Tom Lawrence (SFU Business)
Dr. Thomas B. Lawrence is an associate professor in management and organization studies and the Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Tom’s research focuses on the dynamics of power, change and institutions in organizations and organizational fields. Tom joined SFU Business in 2002 from the University of Victoria. He has also taught as a visiting scholar at a number of universities, including the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, McGill University, Royal Roads University, and the University of British Columbia. In 2001, Tom’s work was recognized with an Ascendant Scholar award from the Western Academy of Management. As the Weyerhaeuser Chair in Change Management, Tom’s mandate is to develop a long-term research program examining organizational change, with a focus on the social processes that facilitate or block learning and innovation. Outside of academia, Tom is a busy father who occasionally finds time to go for a run.
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Donald MacPherson (City of Vancouver)
“Donald MacPherson is the Drug Policy Coordinator for the City of Vancouver. Donald has worked extensively in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver at the Carnegie Community Centre and as a Social Planner with the City of Vancouver’s Social Planning Department. In 2000 the City created the position of Drug Policy Coordinator in order to bring a focus to the serious situation in the Downtown Eastside with regard to drug overdose deaths, HIV and HEP C epidemics among injection drug users and an unacceptable level of property crime in this inner city neighbourhood. Donald worked closely with Mayor Philip Owen at the time to create the City’s Four Pillars Drug Strategy that was adopted by Vancouver City Council in 2001 which called for a new approach to drug problems in Vancouver. Since then he has worked with Mayor Larry Campbell, Mayor Sam Sullivan and currently with Mayor Gregor Robertson to further the development of a comprehensive and evidence based approach to drug problems in Vancouver. In 2007 Donald was awarded a Kaiser Foundation National Award of Excellence in Public Policy for Vancouver’s Four Pillars Drug Strategy. In June of 2009 the City of Vancouver was awarded Canadian Urban Institutes Secure City Award for the Four Pillars Drug Strategy and the City’s continuing advocacy for services that create a more secure city for all residents.”
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Johanna Mair (IESE Business School, Univerity of Navarra)
Johanna Mair is a Professor of Strategic Management at IESE, the Business School of the University of Navarra in Barcelona. Her research and teaching lies at the intersection of Corporate Strategy and Entrepreneurship for Social Impact and her work has been featured extensively in academic journals, books and the global press. She was recognized as a “Faculty Pioneer” by the Aspen Institute and received the “Ashoka Award for Social Entrepreneurship Education” in 2007 and – together with Christian Seelos – was awarded the 2008 Gold Prize of the IFC-Financial Times Essay Competition and the 2007 Strategic Management Society “Best Paper for Practice Implications Award”. She is a founding member of the Global Agenda Council on Social Entrepreneurship by the World Economic Forum; serves on the advisory board of a number of companies, foundations, and social investment funds; and consults with large multinational companies and international organizations such as the World Bank. Read more
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Judith Marcuse (International Centre of Art for Social Change)
“Judith Marcuse, LL.D. (Hon.), is Founder and Co-Director of the International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC). Marcuse is also the Founder and Artistic Producer of Judith Marcuse Projects and Adjunct Professor in the SFU Faculty of Education. Judith Marcuse is one of Canada’s senior artist/producers with a career that spans over 40 years of professional work as a dancer, choreographer, director, producer, teacher, writer and lecturer in Canada and abroad. She has created over 100 original works for live performance by dance, theatre and opera companies; many projects for film and television; and has produced seven large-scale arts festivals. Her repertory contemporary dance company toured nationally and internationally for more than 15 years, while also creating innovative community and youth programs. A pioneer in the field of arts for social change, her work is internationally-recognized.” Read more
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Gillian Maxwell
Gillian is trained in mediation and negotiation. She has been an entrepreneur in Vancouver for over twenty years, with a range of experience that includes facilitation, mediation, coaching, public speaking, networking, advocacy and organising public events. Her community involvement commenced upon becoming a resident of Strathcona (Downtown Eastside) in 1996. Vancouver is the leader in North America in harm reduction initiatives and drug policy reform, and Gillian arranges tours of facilities and interviews with stakeholders for visitors across Canada and internationally. Gillian has been the chair of “Keeping the Door Open: Dialogues on Drug Use” (KDO) since 2002. KDO is a multi-sectoral community based coalition that organises dialogues on problematic substance use to educate and inform public policy. She was invited to speak about harm reduction initiatives at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006 and at Concordia University in Montreal in 2008. She has presented at several international conferences overseas. She was the co-regional lead of the North American Consultation for the Vienna Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Committee (VNGOC). This initiative called “Beyond 2008” seeks to involve a wide sector of civil society in raising awareness of global drug policies. She represented her region at the inaugural International NGO Forum in July 2008 in Vienna. She is a founding member of the Canadian Drug Policy Consortium which is a fledgling national organisation representing NGO’s across Canada. Gillian is passionate about people and community. She is a catalyst for change and works dilligently to make it happen in various and creative ways, ranging from transformational processes to the human rights movement, which has currently brought her into the area of reforming drug policy for all currently illegal substances. She loves bringing people together in dialogue, whether at the dinner table or public forum. She values honesty, curiosity, courage and generosity. She is forthright, direct and caring. Gillian lives in Vancouver, BC Canada with her husband, step-daughter and puppy and believes in magic.
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John McKnight (Northwestern University)
For nearly three decades, John McKnight has conducted research on social service delivery systems, health policy, community organizations, neighborhood policy, and institutional racism. He currently directs research projects focused on asset-based neighborhood development and methods of community building by incorporating marginalized people. McKnight has been associated with many of the Institute’s major research projects since he joined the organization in 1969. These have included research on the urban determinants of health, law enforcement, urban disinvestment and metropolitan government, deinstitutionalized child welfare services, police anticrime programs, and the effects of the perception of crime upon community responses. He also directed the Chicago Innovations Forum, an IPR-based dialogue among neighborhood leaders and innovators in economic, political and social development. Much of his recent work on asset-based community development is captured in McKnight’s co-authored book, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets (1993), which has circulated through a broad range of community, government, business, nonprofit, and educational institutions in the United States and Canada. Articles McKnight has written over the past two decades were published in The Careless Society (1995). McKnight serves on the Board of Directors of numerous community organizations including the Gamaliel Foundation and The National Training and Information Center. Before joining Northwestern, McKnight directed the Midwest office of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Co-Director John McKnight has partnered with Jody Kretzmann for nearly three decades on research on community organizations and neighborhood policy. Additionally, McKnight has conducted his own research on social service delivery systems, health policy, the inclusion of marginalized people, and institutional racism. He currently contributes to ABCD Institute efforts and continues his own research and community work. Read more
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David Mitchell (Public Policy Forum)
“David J. Mitchell became president and CEO of the PPF in January of 2009. Previously he served as Vice-president at three Canadian universities: Queen’s, the University of Ottawa and Simon Fraser University. His diverse career path has also included senior positions in both the public and private sectors. Serving as a Member of the British Columbia Legislature from 1991 to 1996, he was a watchdog on a broad range of issues including parliamentary reform, advanced education, resource management and labour relations. He had previously gained experience in parliamentary procedure and legislative processes as Deputy Clerk of the Saskatchewan Legislature.” Read more
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Daphne Nederhorst (Sawa Global)
“Daphne Nederhorst is the Founder of Sawa Global, an organization that uses a new approach, using media technology, to empower grassroots leaders from the world’s 50 poorest countries that have solved poverty in their communities. Sawa’s vision is to eliminate extreme poverty for 1 billion people by using a “local leadership model” versus a “foreign aid model”. Daphne grew up in Africa, had the passion to help the poor since she was 7 and has recently been nominated for the renowned Ashoka Fellowship and the International Peace Awards.”
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Lisa Papania (SFU Business)
Lisa Papania is a PhD student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She has published articles in the areas of corporate social responsibility and communication; teaches product development and innovation, and ethics, and also writes teaching case studies. She is the development manager of inov8.ca; a student-focused social innovation initiative under SFU’s CMA Centre for Strategic Change and Performance Measurement. Her current research focus is organizational innovation and change.
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Ana María Peredo (University of Victoria)
Ana María Peredo is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business, and Director of the BC Institute for Co-operative Studies at UVic. Drawing on her background in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Dr Peredo’s research and teaching focuses on the role of business in fostering sustainable communities, especially among impoverished communities. She has a strong interest in community alternatives and participatory action research among indigenous people. Her own experience gives her a strong commitment to exploring diverse ways in which business and culture can combine to address poverty and social disadvantage. Her teaching includes a course in the development of business plans for entrepreneurial ventures, including social enterprises, and a course in the process of globalisation and the various forms of local communities’ response to that process. Ana María stresses the role of enterprise as a response to social as well as cultural forces. In developing the idea of business people as citizens, she works with a rich concept of sustainability that incorporates social, environmental and economic elements. Dr. Peredo has published a number of articles, including several on topics in social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, in leading management journals. The Canadian Bureau for International Education awarded Dr. Peredo the Internationalization Leadership Award for 2008, the same year she was finalist for the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education Academic Faculty Pioneer Award. She was recognized by the Western Academy of Management as an Ascendant Scholar in 2007. She spent 2007/08 academic year as Visiting Fellow in the Global Poverty Research Group at the University of Oxford, extending her research into the concept and phenomenon of “social entrepreneurship”.
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Moura Quayle (UBC Sauder School of Business)
Moura brings a wealth of experience in strategic, long-term organization and management of public-interest enterprises. She has moved from working with natural and community systems to institutional, governance and finance. Previous to her recent appointment to the UBC Sauder School of Business, Moura was Commissioner of the one-year British Columbia Pacific Coast Collaborative Commission, leading B.C.’s participation in the Pacific Coast Collaborative. The Collaborative is a forum to develop agreements amongst the Premier of British Columbia and the Governors of the States of Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington. With the goal of positioning the region as the heart of innovation and sustainable living in the Pacific Century, the agreements provide a framework for cooperative action through the sharing of information on best practices in the areas of: sustainable economy, clean energy, regional transportation, research and innovation and emergency preparedness. Previous to her appointment as the Commissioner, Moura served as B.C.’s Deputy Minister of Advanced Education from June 2005 to June 2008. In this capacity she initiated the Campus 2020 comprehensive review of the post-secondary sector including public and private institutions across the Province and was responsible for strategic oversight of $1.6B in operational funding and a $1.5B five-year capital plan. In 1997, Moura was appointed Dean of UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems (formerly Agricultural Sciences), where she devoted the next eight years (1997-2005) working to restructure and rebrand the Faculty and reconfigure all faculty systems. Moura was also key to the executive team of a comprehensive institutional merger and asset rationalization exercise as Associate Vice President, UBC Okanagan Programs for UBC Okanagan in 2005. Throughout Moura’s professional and academic career, her leadership has been called transformational at the institutional, organizational, legislative, and municipal levels. In 1992, as chair of Vancouver’s Urban Landscape Task Force, Moura established a city-wide process of consultation on urban landscape that resulted in the implementation of the city’s Greenways program, and in 1998 directed and authored the report on the exercise of the Provincial Cabinet’s public-interest override of the authority of the Agricultural Land Commission. Moura’s awards include the YMCA Woman of Distinction award for Communication and Public Affairs, in 1993 on the tenth anniversary of the awards, and in 2004, an honourary Doctor of Science from the University of Guelph, in recognition of her outstanding academic and community leadership. She holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Landscape Architecture, and is a graduate from France’s INSEAD Advanced Management Program.
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Trish Reay (University of Alberta School of Business)
“Trish Reay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Alberta School of Business. She teaches classes in organizational change, public policy and family business in the MBA and BCom programs. Her research interests include organizational and institutional change, organizational learning, knowledge transfer and dynamics of family enterprises. She has studied these topics in health care settings and in family firms. Published articles from these research streams appear in Organization Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies and Human Resource Management.” Read more
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Christian Seelos (IESE Business School, University of Navarra)
“Christian Seelos is the Director of the IESE Platform for Strategy and Sustainability (IPSS) and a senior lecturer and senior researcher in the Strategic Management Department at IESE. He teaches MBA and executive courses in International Business, Global Strategic Management, Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Sustainability at various business schools in Europe, Africa and the United States. Recent appointments include Visiting Scholar at SCANCOR, Stanford University; Visiting Executive Professor at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University.” Read more
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Mark Selman (SFU Learning Strategies Group)
“Dr. Mark Selman has been creating and leading innovative training and educational initiatives across a wide range of business practices and professions since the mid 1980s. Mark’s guidance of the Learning Strategies Group combines an imaginative vision of learning with his experience as a business owner. He has worked with numerous organizations including the Education Task Force of the Vancouver Board of Trade, the Public Service Commission of Canada, BC Hydro, CP Rail, the Conference Board of Canada, Cominco, ICBC, and the Institute for Railway Technology.” Read more
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Shawn Smith (Global Agents for Change)
Shawn Smith is founder and President of Global Agents for Change (www.globalafc.org), a social change incubator that develops creative ways for young people to explore issues and take action, while raising funds and awareness for projects addressing global inequity. The organization’s rapidly growing Opportunity Fund acts as an accelerator for established microfinance and education initiatives, removing financial and technical barriers to help global community building projects broaden their reach and achieve sustainability. Shawn is also co-founder of Education Generation (www.educationgeneration.org), an online community providing scholarships to developing world students, $20 at a time. This platform connects donors and students around the world, supporting young leaders that can help pull their communities out of poverty. Launching quietly late 2008, it has funded 135 scholarships and raised over $30,000 USD in this pilot phase. When time permits, Shawn also acts as a strategic and communications consultant for private and social sector organizations in Vancouver, and has spoken to thousands of youth and adults on issues including global citizenship, leadership, and the power to impact our world. He has previous experience in banking and finance and has also worked and traveled extensively in Europe, China, and South America, speaking Spanish and Mandarin in addition to English. Shawn holds a Business Administration degree from Simon Fraser University and resides in Vancouver where he spends his spare time studying Mandarin and planning the next great adventure.
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Shauna Sylvester (Canada’s World)
Shauna Sylvester is a Fellow at the SFU Centre for Dialogue and the Director of Canada’s World – a national citizens’ dialogue on Canadian international policy. From 1997 to 2006 she was the founding Executive Director of IMPACS – the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society and worked to strengthen democracy in Canada and in conflict and post-conflict zones around the world. Shauna has served on the board of Mountain Equipment Cooperative, VanCity – Canada’s largest credit union, VanCity Capital, the B.C. Social Economy Roundtable and several community and international organizations. She has written and edited several publications related to social and environmental issues and has provided policy advice to governments and foundations on subjects as varied as human rights, media, social economy, human security, environment and AIDS. Shauna holds a Masters in Management from McGill University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University. In 2005, she was honoured with an Outstanding Alumni Award from SFU for her community service work. In 2003, Shauna was also recognized as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in the Globe and Mail after receiving a similar award in 2000 by Business in Vancouver Magazine. Read more
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James Tansey (UBC Sauder School of Business)
James Tansey joined UBC in 2006 and is an Associate Professor, leading the Sauder School of Business’ activities on sustainability and social innovation. James is Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation. He also works closely with the Business Family Centre to identify areas where advances in social innovation can meet philanthropic goals. James’ research activities cover a number of areas including social enterprise, climate change the social impacts and acceptability of new technologies. He has written extensively on the role of public consultation in the governance of industrial societies, industrial ecology, scenario methods and climate change. His current research focuses on international markets for carbon exchange, innovation and social innovation and strategic corporate social responsibility. James is co-founder of a Canadian carbon offset company called offsetters.com and works with start-up companies in the green technology sector. He is co-director of Sauder’s new Accelerated Leadership Programme. James has recently worked as an advisor and contributor to the World Economic Forum, the UK National Audit Office, Oxford Analytica, Cisco, Isis Innovation (Oxford), and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. Read more
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Frances Westley (University of Waterloo)
“Frances Westley joined the University of Waterloo as the JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation in July 2007. In this role she will head up a Canada wide initiative in social innovation, SiG (Social Innovation Generation), a cross sectoral partnership to build capacity for social innovation in Canada funded by the J.W McConnell Family Foundation, University of Waterloo and the Ontario government. Dr. Westley is a renowned scholar and consultant in the areas of social innovation, strategies for sustainable development, middle management and strategic change, visionary leadership and inter-organizational collaboration. Her most recent book, Getting to Maybe (Random House, 2006) focuses the dynamics of social innovation, and institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems. Experiments in Consilience (Island Press, 2004), focuses on the dynamics of inter-organizational and interdisciplinary collaboration in the management of ecological and conservation problems. ” Read more
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Charlene Zietsma (University of Victoria)
Charlene Zietsma is an assistant professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Victoria. She taught previously at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, and at Simon Fraser University, where she completed her MBA. She completed her doctorate at the University of British Columbia. Charlene’s research interests focus on multilevel processes of change: with new organizations, within existing organizations, between organizations and within institutional environments. She has examined processes of institutional change in the context of conflicts between businesses and social and environmental activists. She has also examined entrepreneurial cognition, motivation and opportunity recognition; organizational learning, and the co-creation of institutional arrangements. She has published research in journals such as Organization Science, the Journal of Business Venturing, Business and Society and the British Journal of Management. Prior to her graduate education, Charlene established a corporate relocation consulting firm, ran a multicultural centre, managed a university career program, and worked in sales for Procter & Gamble. She has served on a number of boards and committees for various organizations.
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