Over my working career, I have had the privilege of experiencing many organizational environments: retail sales; ownership of a small business; human-resource-management services in the insurance, utility, and healthcare sectors; labour relations and labour negotiations; board governance and advisory work; learner engagement at various universities; local and provincial healthcare administration; government service; provincial climate-change planning; and national quality and safety improvement.I spent time as front-line worker, middle manager, senior executive, and chief operating officer. In the process, I gained an appreciation of the dynamics that take place between people and relationships within and between organizational spaces.My executive leadership experience includes: senior vice president, Health Employers Association of BC; senior vice president and interim CEO, Vancouver Coastal-Health Authority; assistant deputy minister, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; associate deputy minister and executive lead of Ontario’s Health Results Team; associate deputy minister, Climate Change Ontario Government Cabinet Office, and retired as CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute.In addition to professional accomplishments, I am a consummate learner and knowledge-exchange advocate and lecturer. Professional activities have included: adjunct professor at Griffith University Business School in Brisbane, Australia and senior fellow at the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management. Currently an adjunct professor for the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.