At Mindel Solutions, I’m privileged to be part of an amazing team spanning Canada, the US and Mexico committed to help our clients unleash the power of transformative mentoring, strategic agency and collaborative leadership within their organizations and communities. Together we design experiences that change lives! As CEO and Innovation Leader, I get to do what I do best: culture as strategy, and strategy as culture. The only thing better than working at a company where everyone gives their best out of the sheer joy of knowing that they are enough, is working at a company where there is no competition because there is literally no comparison. We’re serious about delivering value from day one. We create outcomes, not proposals. We’re always striving beyond professional and organizational goals, to be an ever-elevating example of awesomeness that invites emerging authentic leaders to believe that a new future is always available. This means a commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly 4) Quality Education, 9) Resilient Infrastructure, Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation, 16) Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, and 17) Partnership for the Goals. We've built a deep bench of expertise in these areas, with amazing community connections!The most personally rewarding aspect of my job is helping organizations of all sizes to find that one thing that, if done superbly, makes everything else either easy or unnecessary. I’m constantly amazed, but never surprised, at how difficult it is to discover the obvious. It is so satisfying to build a strategy on something so invisible and inevitable! Once you gain inner mastery of a problem, true sharpness comes without effort, and it comes about naturally that the course of action you take will succeed.

Integrated IBM Advanced Studies' research and partnership missions, improved alignment in support of development priorities, and enhanced responsiveness and impact in business, academia and society.

Establishing IBM as the partner of choice for premier academic institutions through strategic alliances, skills enablement, curriculum development, product access and student and new graduate recruitment.

Championed IBM Canada's Extreme Blue program, one of the most highly regarded and comprehensive innovation internship leadership development programs in the world. Over seven years of involvement, guided 28 team of top technical and MBA interns to drive real emerging business opportunities for IBM, with mentoring from the company's best business, technical and research leaders.

Responsible for engineering and nurturing deep research relationships with universities to secure access to a continuous pipeline of outstanding technology and talent for IBM's Ottawa Software Lab.

Managed external research relationships and university relations for seven research and development labs in North America and Europe.

Developed specialized applications and components of integrated development environments in Smalltalk and Java targeted at Windows, OS/2, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris and MacOS platforms. Designed and delivered highly successful software development bootcamp program for new hires. Coordinated test and documentation functions in addition to development responsibilities.