I am focusing on providing specialized services related to developing communities and business around the Sport | Health | Youth | Education markets. More specifically:+ Scanning markets for opportunities associated with Sport | Health | Youth | Education | Wellbeing+ Preparing business plans to recruit youth+ Acting on plans to deliver results for customers+ Reviewing other peoples work to identify where enhancements can be made+ Knowledge Management of what we learn from our action and feeding back into the scans and plans for community and business development.

Continual building and strengthening of productive and valuable partnerships both locally and internationally to drive collaboration, engagement and revenue stream development.Provide presentations and workshops for potential interested parties both locally and internationally through developed relationships and international recruitment conferences.

Responsible for the delivery, management and facilitation of a global leadership education program forstudents ages 12-19.Provide continual counsel and coaching for young leaders from around the world to plan and execute social entrepreneurial projects in their communities following the program.

In 2011 I supported 82 students on the 2 week program, in 2012 it was 60 students and in 2013 it was 2 groups of 40 students. Its a two week program facilitated by Dwight School at Shawnigan Lake. The Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL) is both a symbol and a product of youth making a difference in the world. Kirk S. Spahn, at only age 23, founded what has now become a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting global youth service leadership initiatives. In just over a decade, the ICL has grown into a global organization that positively impacts the lives of millions of people.

GNS is an independent day school that is a caring, and thriving community. As one of only ten IB World schools in Canada offering all three International Baccalaureate programs, GNS is proud of its unique 'IB Advantage': a 21st-Century education which educates the whole child and creates global thinkers. Being a part of this community is extremely rewarding as I get to do what I love most and that is connecting people and building relationships within GNS and on a broader scale, the community surrounding GNS. In particular, working in International recruitment allows me to connect with families around the world and welcome them as part of our greater GNS community. As the Coordinator of our Family Boarding I am responsible for helping create a dynamic, nurturing and inspiring environment for our students who leave their home and make GNS and Victoria their home while they are here to study. The education of each child extends far beyond the classroom and at GNS I get to help bridge what happens in the class with what is happens at home, in particular with international students.

This assignment started out as the Director of Admissions role and I grew it out to include the Communications and Outreach function. Around 140 students, 50% local and 50% international and achieved a high degree of enrollment retention. Dwight Canada is a consortium partner with Dwight School, the flagship campus located in New York, Dwight London, and, most recently, Dwight School Seoul.This school offers a robust academic program for grades 6 through 12, and is the only school in North America to offer students a choice of 3 diplomas for graduation: the BC high school diploma, the U.S. high school diploma, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Parents have the power to customize their child’s education with the full-time/weekday boarding options, in addition to the day-student option.

Lattitude Global Volunteering (formerly known as Gap Activity Projects) is an international youth development charity. Our mission is to educate and develop young people worldwide by providing inclusive opportunities for them to make a positive difference to the lives of others through a distinctive, challenging, structured and supported international volunteering experience in a culture and community different from their own.Through global volunteering, we aim to give young people the opportunity to experience the world beyond their community and to truly engage with it. We seek to develop young people’s awareness and responsibilities towards themselves and others, and equip them with vital life skills.Our vision is of a world where all young people contribute to a more dynamic, caring and tolerant society as responsible global citizens.

I managed 9-14 employees with annual sales at my store ranging from $400 to $500 thousand CDN. I achieved a high degree of community saturation and was the first store to secure a National sponsorship title position with the Canadian Junior National Figure Skating Organization. Our store achieved more than 1,000 volunteers hours from our employees, focus on supporting the community in which we operated. Meet some inspiring young athletes on our blog and get tips on how to reach your own PB (personal best) and sweat-fuelled goals. Check out what’s going on in all of our ivivva stores across the US and Canada with special event features.Find your ivivva store and drop-in for complimentary dance, yoga or athletic classes. Be it hip-hop, Hatha or Highland, we’ll teach you some new moves with new friends that will get your heart rate - and friend count - up.

My assignment began by shaping up this new brand fopr a launch in Vancouver which eventually moved to Sutter Brook Village in Port Moody. We employed 4-8 emplyees and generated between $100 to $150 thousand in annual sales. dandelion KIDS has become a longtime favourite destination for trend-setting children’s clothing, shoes and accessories, baby carriers, wooden toys, organic bath products, room decor, children’s books, and art supplies. We are proud to offer colourful, safe, non-toxic toys that are smartly designed with quality manufacturing that your kids will have fun playing with through all their various stages of development. Our selection is a vibrant blend of local and Canadian designs mixed with pieces from Europe and around the world. Throughout our shop, you will find heaps of organic, fair-trade, and local choices. If it’s on our shelves, it has to look good, move well, last long, and delight children and adults everywhere

Having served the company through its Initial Public Offering and repositioning, I focused on serving as an Analyst in Vancouver ensuring that our 110 stores in North America had the stock they required to sell to their specific market. My focus was on 31 markets and on all new store and launches for this period.After 20 years in the surf, skate and snowboard business, founder Chip Wilson took the first commercial yoga class offered in Vancouver and found the result exhilarating. The post-yoga feeling was so close to surfing and snowboarding that it seemed obvious that yoga was an ideology whose time had come (again).Cotton clothing was being used for sweaty, stretchy power yoga and seemed completely inappropriate to Chip, whose passion lay in technical athletic fabrics. From this, a design studio was born that became a yoga studio at night to pay the rent. Clothing was offered for sale and an underground yoga clothing movement was born. The success of the clothing was dependent on the feedback from yoga instructors who were asked to wear the products and provide their insights.

When I started with the company we had 5 stores. I focused on merchandise management supporting the planners and the buyers. There were only 2 people in my shop. When I left for a short time there was 9 people serving 130 stores. It was a great time to see this business mature and break everyone's expectations.Founded in 1998, lululemon's first real store opened in the beach area of Vancouver BC called Kitsilano, in November of 2000. The idea was to have the store be a community hub where people could learn and discuss the physical aspects of healthy living from yoga and diet to running and cycling as well as the mental aspects of living a powerful life of possibilities. Unfortunately for this concept, the store became so busy that it was impossible to help the customer in this way in addition to selling the product.So the focus of training shifted solely to the lululemon educator or staff person. Our goal was to train our people so well that they could in fact positively influence their families, communities and the people walking into our stores.Although the initial goal was to only have one store, it was soon obvious that to provide a fulfilling life of growth, family, salary and mortgage for our amazing staff, we would have to provide more opportunities. It was really a matter of grow or die because active minds need a challenge.

As an Assistant Manager in a store with 8 to 12 employees, I was responsible for ensuring that our soft goods were in top shape. We ran clinics for customers and did between a million and a million and a half CDN in sales annually. At Forerunners you are assured a friendly welcome with professional advice from a fellow runner. Our focus is on ensuring that no matter your age or skill level, running or walking plays an enjoyable and rewarding part of your lifestyle.With an amazing range of sizes and widths in stock (probably the largest in Vancouver), we make sure that the shoes you run in are the ones that suit you... not what looks good on our walls. If you're looking for information on upcoming races, some advice on what to wear as the weather changes, or training tips on how to reach your goals we're always happy to help.

I worked on an 8 to 10 person team fulfilling orders for more than 2000 schools in British Columbia. We maintained a warehouse of more than 1000 SKU's. We also held the rights to Spalding Equipment for our region.Teal Skyline Athletics was built on the backs of Northern Athletic Inc., an institutional wholesaler of athletic and team products.Since 1989, Northern Athletic has supplied Universities, Colleges, Schools and teams throughout Western Canada with their athletic, gymnasium and team requirements. Northern Athletic was a major sponsor of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games and the 1995 Western Canada Summer Games. Northern Athletic is the fastest growing company of its kind in Canada.Northern Athletic is a member of the CSGA, the NSGA and TAG Inc. (Team Athletic Goods), the largest buying group of athletic products in North America. TAG specializes in high quality products for excellent value. TAG products are designed to give the athlete the quality product they need to play the sport they enjoy.

I was part of a 10 person team that ran a brand new sport centre for this University College. I had WCB clients and personal clients and maintained daily group clinics and the general operations of the facility.Founded in 1971, MacEwan University has a long tradition of learner access and quality education. This comprehensive university, offers more than 60 programs including undergraduate degrees, applied degrees, diplomas, certificates, continuing education and corporate training.Over the last 40 years, we have evolved and grown to become a degree-granting university offering a broad complement of programs. Our name may have changed, but the learning and commitment continues.

The research focus of this lab is multi-disciplinary, and represents a collaborative interest in studying women's health and physical activity.Several faculty members and graduate students with research interests in the areas of:exercise physiology and reproductive endocrinology,and energy balance work out of this lab.Others have research programs examining the sociocultural and behavioural aspects surrounding womens participation in physical activity.The Women's Health and Physical Activity Lab has easy access to both our Exercise Biochemistry Lab and Anthropometry Lab (hydrostatic weighing.)

United Cycle has been a part of Old Strathcona for over 85 years and continues to support many associations and communities in and around Edmonton and throughout Alberta.United Cycle is one of the largest independent sporting goods stores in Western Canada (with 100,000 square feet of space) and Edmonton's largest bike store. We specialize in 29 sports: badminton, baseball, basketball, bikes, cheer, combat, cricket, curling, figure skating, floorball, football, goal, gymnastics, hockey, inline/roller hockey, lacrosse, licensed, racquetball, ringette, rugby, running & active wear (including lifestyle clothing and footwear), snowboard, soccer, softball, squash, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, and wrestling.