Board service

2017 to present

Founding director. Chair, Compensation Committee; member, Audit and Finance, Strategy, and Board Renewal and Recruitment Committees.

Diversified industrial services group of 16 operating businesses and joint ventures and three equity investments, owned by Halfway River First Nation, with operations in harvesting, civil and infrastructure construction, instrumentation and electrical, heavy lifting and workforce accommodation; group revenue has grown more than tenfold since 2017, the period of this board tenure.
Board approval of equity investments and joint ventures in the energy services sector.
As Compensation Committee chair, led development of the CEO compensation framework and leads its annual review.
Board oversight of a major restructuring of the group: a new holding structure, a consolidation of subsidiaries and a new operating model.
Senior human resources decisions, including executive succession and organisational redesign; recommended changes to the executive structure to strengthen capacity for strategy, and contributed to the recruitment of a chief financial officer.
Reports, with a fellow independent director, to the shareholder, Chief and Council; co-authored the February 2026 Directors' Update.
Contributed to the board's proposed framework for member-owned businesses, presented to Chief and Council for direction (2026).

2025 to present

Director. Member, Strategy Committee and Compensation Committee.

Canada’s oldest and largest reforestation company, with more than 1.5 billion trees planted since 1970, and a living infrastructure subsidiary; operations in Canada and Central America.
Brings governance, ESG and Indigenous partnership expertise to the board.
Prepared the Compensation Committee's 2026 board paper on CEO compensation.
Supporting the board and management through a major restructuring and strategy renewal, currently underway; involved in senior human resources decisions.

2013 to 2016

Founding Board Member of the predecessor to the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion.

Governance beyond the boardroom

Institutional governance. Designed the process by which Carleton University's next strategy moves through Senate endorsement to Board of Governors approval, and facilitated the Board of Governors and Senate visioning sessions.
Board education. Designed board governance and board of directors development programmes at Simon Fraser University, including the BC Hydro Board Governance Program (2010).
Advisory appointments. Luminary Initiative, Indigenous Works; Dean's Advisory Council, Royal Roads University; Indigenous Affairs Policy Committee, Conference Board of Canada; Two-Eyed Seeing Project, Ocean Supercluster.
Research on boards. A process model of how boards acquire authority as the enterprises they govern grow, in preparation for the Journal of Management Studies.