• Provided senior level advice on internal strategy, operations, finances, and procedures to the President and senior leadership team of a large Canadian international development charity with 75 employees and annual donations of $35 million.• Successfully led an organizational restructure of two departments to align organizational resources with new opportunities and identified strategic opportunities for fundraising growth.• Produced monthly statements of operations for the board and senior management and provided quarterly financial reports to the board of directors.• Prepared the annual $35 million revenue budget and developed increasingly more sophisticated financial forecasting tools to improve the accuracy of projections.• Prepared departmental expense budgets of more than $1 million.• Managed an organization-wide review of software needs for business operations and team lead for the implementation of new software solutions.• Conducted process reviews and time and motion studies to identify workflow efficiencies and achieved 10% reductions in donor service delivery times.• Ensured operations, policies, and procedures were aligned and compliant with CRA requirements and industry best practices as established by third-party evaluators.

• Prepared and managed the annual $35 million revenue budget and developed financial projection tools to increase forecast accuracy and improve strategic decision-making.• Prepared and managed a departmental expense budget of over $1 million. Successfully reduced operating expenses in three consecutive years by a cumulative total of 25% while increasing annual donation revenue by $6 million.• Managed, coached, onboarded, and prepared annual performance appraisals for a team of seven direct reports.

• Led creative and marketing teams in modernizing Chalice’s brand style and fundraising materials with a digital-friendly aesthetic and donor-centred tone.• Successfully restructured the department’s annual workplan and operations to a unified, annual, integrated campaign and message calendar for fundraising activities to break down individual development silos amongst department teams and improve efficiency.• Used donor data and industry best practices to develop new fundraising materials that increased donor conversions by 50%.• Prepared annual revenue and departmental expense budgets. Consistently managed departmental and interdepartmental projects to completion ahead of schedule and under budget.

• Founding partner of a consulting company specializing in assisting growing organizations make the challenging transition from workgroup to governing boards.• Conducted governance reviews of medium and large not-for-profit corporations with a focus on board-staff relationships in membership-based organizations. Reviews included stakeholder interviews and focus groups, review of governance documents and relevant legislation, and a final report on findings with recommendations.• Provided successful change management support to boards and staff in making transformational governance changes. Developed and presented training modules to transition boards and onboard new board members.

Conducted a governance review of participating Nova Scotia Students' Associations. The final report and recommendations were accepted by a review committee comprised of former student association executives and publicly released by StudentsNS. The review included interviews with key university, industry, and student association stakeholders, student focus groups, interviews with organizational governance experts, and a review of applicable organizational governance literature.

Designed and taught a 4th year Political Science seminar course titled "The Politics of War in Africa"

Worked as a member of a research team reviewing participatory governance and Indigenous consultations processes as part of the development of the Government of Ontario's new mining act. Research output includes:J. Andrew Grant, Dimitrios Panagos, Michael Hughes, and Matthew I. Mitchell, "A Historical Institutionalist Understanding of Participatory Governance and Aboriginal Peoples: The Case of Policy Change in Ontario's Mining Sector", Social Science Quarterly vol. 95 iss. 4, 2014, 978-1000.