Engagements are scoped to a defined question and a defined output. Each can be commissioned on its own, and each draws on work already done in a board, executive or teaching role.
Boards of growing private companies, Crown corporations, public agencies and not-for-profits.
Basis: founding director and Compensation Committee chair of a diversified industrial services group since 2017; ICD.D; designed board governance and board of directors development programmes, including the BC Hydro Board Governance Program.
Compensation and human resources committees, and boards without one.
Basis: led development of the CEO compensation framework at Halfway River Group and leads its annual review; prepared the 2026 board paper on CEO compensation for Brinkman.
Universities, colleges, public-purpose bodies and organisations whose strategy must pass through several layers of governance.
Basis: Strategy Lead for Carleton University’s five-year strategy and long-term vision, through Senate endorsement to Board of Governors approval.
Organisations facing growth, a change of leadership, a merger or a stalled initiative.
Basis: the Assess phase of the Integrated Consulting Methodology, developed and applied at Simon Fraser University’s Learning Strategies Group.
Leadership teams, high-potential cohorts and organisations building leadership capability.
Basis: Executive Director of Simon Fraser University’s Learning Strategies Group, which designed and delivered custom programmes across ten industry sectors. Work included the CGA Canada Business Leadership Program, the Corix Executive Leadership Development Program, the CIO Canada Leadership Development Program, the Deloitte CHRO Breakfast Learning Series and the ICAB Leadership Exchange, the first programme of its kind in Canada. The unit received the Canadian Council on Learning Award for Excellence in Learning (2009).
Organisations that want learning and development tied directly to their strategic plan.
Basis: advised organisations on integrated learning strategies as Executive Director of the Learning Strategies Group, leading a team of 14 learning and development professionals; the Integrated Learning Methodology.
Business schools, executive MBA programmes, professional bodies and conferences.
Basis: teaching at universities in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia; teaching awards from the University of Northern British Columbia and the University of Westminster; Simon Fraser University Teaching Honour Roll.
Founders and experts whose methodology or practice works because of the person who holds it.
Basis: current commercialisation of a differentiation methodology; music technology consulting in London, Paris, Sydney and Vancouver; digital platform work at Accenture.