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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

With over 25 years of experience facilitating collaborative processes, empowering women in leadership, and guiding complex conversations, I specialize in helping leaders and teams align diverse perspectives, navigate uncertainty, and co-create strategies for lasting and meaningful change.My experience includes designing and facilitating large-scale initiatives, such as a recent global gathering of 5,000 leaders, where I inspired collaborative action and systemic transformation. I endeavour to empower leaders to align vision with action and achieve meaningful results, which embodies what we do best at Adaptive Leaders —helping leaders make changes they didn’t think were possible.I'm based in Toronto, though you’ll often find me travelling worldwide to connect with clients and drive impact.

Toronto, Canada

I specialize in:• Collaboration• Collective Impact • Community Engagement• Community Innovation• Co-Design• Project management and event planning consulting and training.• Interactive workshops on risk assessment and contingency planning, not-for-profit board governance training, healthy mentorship programs, project timelines and team building for your company or organization.• Begining a solid business platform for your small business or organization using the Lean Start Up method.

Ancaster, Ontario, Canada

Teach analytical, collaborative and innovative thinking in real-life situations to identify leadership issues and opportunities. Develop the character, competencies, and skills of student leaders with the goal of effectively assessing and engaging current global issues.

Global

Recruit, train, coordinate and celebrate a global hackathon in 40+ countries around the globe.

Bangkok City, Thailand

Church leaders from across Asia sense that the church in Asia is maturing and the time is ripe to send their young people into cross-cultural missions within their countries, the region of Asia and around the world. 1700 participants from 35 countries from across Asia and the Middle East came together in Bangkok, Thailand this past July to attend Arise Asia.Arise Asia was by Asians, for Asians. The incredible operations team members came from Pakistan, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.

Canada

Planning and executing virtual webinars and in-person events across Canada for the NextGEN Fellows program.

Canada

Execute a powerful online event on justice to educate and engage the Canadian audience.

Bangkok City, Thailand

Recruit, train and lead a dispersed team for a 1000-person event from around the world, including visas, scholarships, ground transportation and volunteer training.Transitioned from an in-person to a virtual event.

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Implemented a cross-country book tour for renowned author Philip Yancey, and initiated organisational change.

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Led a global team to plan an event for 800 participants from 110 countries, including simultaneous virtual program production. Offered deeper engagement by building labs: cross-disciplinary and highly interactive sessions to build solutions to address current issues.

Global

Following the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2016, our goal was to build a diverse portfolio of training opportunities for leaders with limited resources.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Trained and coordinated field offices to acquire passports and 471 US non-immigrant visitor visas. A 96% visa acquisition success rate, for staff without any prior travel history.Booked 32 group flights for 1000 staff from 15 countries.

Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

Effectively contributed to the planning team for the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Jakarta, in two capacities: 1. Mentor the local Volunteer Coordinator and train the volunteers. Identify the areas of volunteer needs, schedules and skills.2. Assist the Program Chair pre-conference and onsite. Give input in operational issues and managing onsite relationships.

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Global registration team (Costa Rica, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, USA, Uganda, Malaysia, Thailand) pre-congress and during the congress. • Register 2500 participants from 100+ countries, develop standard answers to frequently asked questions.• Create and execute a visa application process in conjunction with the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau and Department of Foreign Affairs.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Launched the first hackathon at Urbana, bringing together 200 technologists and 13 partner organizations.• An integral member of the Urbana Program Team.• Developed an afternoon program with 200 seminars for 16,000 participants over 3 days and curated 25 specialised tracks.• Managed 23 staff teams.• Communication champion for overarching themes, purposes and goals of Urbana to speakers and staff.• Recommended Canadian speakers and content for the Urbana program.

Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea

• The World Evangelical Alliance, as one of three world church bodies aims to address some of today’s major global concerns.• The WEA, together with globally-minded organizations delivers practical outcomes of lasting benefit to local churches & communities worldwide.• Provided direction and lead a multi-national planning team towards a successful assembly.• Created operational systems and structures for a 3000+ person event, including technical, catering, housing, transportation, visas, security and audio-visual needs.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Coordinated and provided support to a team of nine trainers from multiple regions of the world.• Managed the process of adapting the board governance training material to the IFES organizational context.• Translated the material into French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.• Established metrics and parameters for ongoing program measurement.

Toronto, Canada

• Independent contractor for an professional association and arranged logistics for an academic conference at the University of Toronto.• 200 participants from 40+ countries.• Responsible for budget development, timeline, communications, visas, travel, housing, catering, creative & design, online and onsite registration, volunteer management, excursions, local transportation.

Kraków Area, Poland

• Worked on a dispersed global communications team for World Assembly, a gathering of 650+ participants from 150 countries. • Coordinated the conference handbook, content, graphics and translation into English, French and Spanish. • Coordinated the daily announcements onsite with the team of English, French and Spanish translators for efficiency and accuracy.

Rome, Italy

• Initiated promotion campaign to an international network.• Led a team of interviewers and photographers during a 700 person event. • Published stories on conference website, created regular newsletters and boosted the event profile through social media.• Created a media campaign plan for immediate implementation after the event.

Cape Town, South Africa

• Independent contractor for an international congress in Cape Town, South Africa encompassing 5000 delegates from 200 countries addressing current global issues through interactive learning and partnership.• Program committee member.• Operational support for 450 speakers, 11 program teams and staff.• Logistical responsibilities included registration, hotel, transportation and program development.

St. Louis, Mo

• Provided logistical planning for Urbana 09, a 20,000+ convention geared towards university students and young professionals.• Senior member of the Urbana Operations Team in conjunction with InterVarsity/USA and the Canadian Urbana Implementation Team.• Developed and implemented logistical systems for 3000 Canadian delegates and staff for a US based conference.

Toronto, Canada

• Developed and executed an operations plan for an international conference for 650 delegates from 150 countries.• Member of an international program team.• Operational areas: transportation, catering, tours, technical equipment, media, conference materials, Canadian culture, student volunteer recruitment, promotion and art gallery.• Developed position descriptions and recruited for an operations team of 15 staff and volunteers.• Coordinated a 2 year timeline and strategic operating plan.• Managed the efforts of 20 vendors and organizational partners to exceed service delivery expectations.• Online registration: set an organizational benchmark for ease and relevance to quickly and accurately identify critical data on attendees.• Worked closely with all levels of government to streamline international travel through customs and secure visitor’s visas.• Supported three official conference languages: English, French & Spanish.

St. Louis, Mo

• Developed, directed and trained 30 delegates from 22 countries using Urbana 06 as a conference model with the goal to implement similar conferences in other countries.• Facilitated brainstorming sessions to generate new ideas and knowledge transfer into multiple cultural contexts.

Vancouver, Canada

• Executed promotion, registration, and logistics for multiple medical conferences for physicians and health care professionals in British Columbia and Canada on topics as diverse as Pediatric Medicine and Transgender Mental Health.• Provided operational support for 4 conferences, 30 presenters and 250 attendees a year.• Supervised student interns.

Madison, Wi

• Designed & scheduled a dynamic program comprised of 300 seminars over 3 days encompassing 210 seminar speakers, 110 staff and 60 volunteers for 20,000 delegates.• Consulted with field experts and partners to attain an international & multicultural speaker roster.• Provided international travel, accommodation and technical equipment for all speakers.• Demonstrated innovative problem solving, meticulous attention to detail and professionalism.

Master Of Arts In Theological Studies, Spiritual Theology

Activities and Societies: UBC Intramurals team, Summer School TA, TA for Luci Shaw.An innovative graduate school of theology.

Certificate, Leadership Development

The Arrow Leadership Program includes residential seminars, practical leadership training, 360 degree assessment feedback, personalized.

Bachelor Of Music, Voice

Foundations Of Intercultural Studies Certificate, Intercultural Communication

• “Bridging Worldviews and Cultural Conflicts” Course, 2005 • Justice Institute of British Columbia – “One Size Doesn’t Fit All.