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* [https://www.amazon.ca/Grey-Zone-Change-Leading-Facilitating/dp/1777188709/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=and+yabome&qid=1610790819&sr=8-3 The companion Guidebook on Grey Zone Change] | * [https://www.amazon.ca/Grey-Zone-Change-Leading-Facilitating/dp/1777188709/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=and+yabome&qid=1610790819&sr=8-3 The companion Guidebook on Grey Zone Change] | ||
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* [https://sldconsulting.org/grey-zone-change-calm-leadership-covid-19/ Grey Zone Change and Calm Leadership] | * [https://sldconsulting.org/grey-zone-change-calm-leadership-covid-19/ Grey Zone Change and Calm Leadership] | ||
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* [https://liveworkwell.ca/ Live Work Well] | * [https://liveworkwell.ca/ Live Work Well] | ||
* [https://liveworkwell.ca/news/2020/05/engendering-disability-inclusive-development-partnership#:~:text=EDID%20aims%20to%20increase%20the,new%20opportunities%20for%20these%20individuals. Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development] | * [https://liveworkwell.ca/news/2020/05/engendering-disability-inclusive-development-partnership#:~:text=EDID%20aims%20to%20increase%20the,new%20opportunities%20for%20these%20individuals. Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development] | ||
− | * Minister’s Advisory Council on Gender-Based Violence | + | * [https://women-gender-equality.canada.ca/en/gender-based-violence-knowledge-centre/gender-based-violence-strategy.html?wbdisable=true#advisory Minister’s Advisory Council on Gender-Based Violence] |
* [https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/2020/04/backgrounder--covid-19-disability-advisory-group.html DAG] | * [https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/2020/04/backgrounder--covid-19-disability-advisory-group.html DAG] | ||
* [https://dawncanada.net/issues/a-bold-vision/ BOLD VISION] | * [https://dawncanada.net/issues/a-bold-vision/ BOLD VISION] | ||
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Ella Saltmarshe pioneers work at the intersection of culture and systems change. She has set up a number of renowned organisations, communities and campaigns.Trained as an anthropologist, Ella has worked in international development, the creative industries and public policy. Working internationally in places like India, Afghanistan and Latin America, opened her eyes to the impact climate change was having over 15 years ago and tackling it has been a driver of her work ever since. | Ella Saltmarshe pioneers work at the intersection of culture and systems change. She has set up a number of renowned organisations, communities and campaigns.Trained as an anthropologist, Ella has worked in international development, the creative industries and public policy. Working internationally in places like India, Afghanistan and Latin America, opened her eyes to the impact climate change was having over 15 years ago and tackling it has been a driver of her work ever since. | ||
− | Ella’s burning question is how, as a species, we can create long, flourishing futures for all inhabitants of earth. And so, she has co-founded the Long Time Project - a movement inspiring individuals, organisations and industries to become better ancestors through collective action. | + | Ella’s burning question is how, as a species, we can create long, flourishing futures for all inhabitants of earth. And so, she has co-founded the Long Time Project - a movement inspiring individuals, organisations and industries to become better ancestors through collective action. |
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Prior to joining the IRPP, Jennifer spent two decades covering national and parliamentary affairs for ''The Canadian Press'' and for CBC Television. She is the winner of three National Newspaper Awards, the recipient of the prestigious Charles Lynch Award for outstanding coverage of national issues, and most recently received three Canadian Online Publishing silver awards for her columns. In 2015, she was named one of the 10 most influential Hispanic-Canadians. | Prior to joining the IRPP, Jennifer spent two decades covering national and parliamentary affairs for ''The Canadian Press'' and for CBC Television. She is the winner of three National Newspaper Awards, the recipient of the prestigious Charles Lynch Award for outstanding coverage of national issues, and most recently received three Canadian Online Publishing silver awards for her columns. In 2015, she was named one of the 10 most influential Hispanic-Canadians. | ||
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Alex is also co-founder of Alberta CoLab, the first provincial government innovation lab in Canada. He is an executive-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. And as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, Alex previously helped introduce operational and strategic design into the U.S. Army, and established strategic design capabilities for U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, and U.S. Cyber Command. He serves on several advisory boards, including Participatory City and Energy Futures Lab. His dissertation in applied mathematics advanced a multidisciplinary approach to complex systems design. | Alex is also co-founder of Alberta CoLab, the first provincial government innovation lab in Canada. He is an executive-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. And as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, Alex previously helped introduce operational and strategic design into the U.S. Army, and established strategic design capabilities for U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, and U.S. Cyber Command. He serves on several advisory boards, including Participatory City and Energy Futures Lab. His dissertation in applied mathematics advanced a multidisciplinary approach to complex systems design. | ||
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Feature speakers, moderators, and panelists:
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Interim Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet
Prior to rejoining the Privy Council, Ms. Charette was the High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and agreed to serve as Interim Clerk while Ian Shugart is on medical leave. From October 2014 to January 2016, Ms. Charette was Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet. Previously, she was Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet (2013-2014), as well as Associate Secretary to the Cabinet and Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (2010-2013). In addition, Ms. Charette has held several senior leadership positions in the public service, including:
Ms. Charette attended Carleton University, where she received a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and she was granted an honorary doctorate from Kingston University, United Kingdom. In March 2021, Ms. Charette received the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. The designation represents a commitment to excellence in the boardroom and the highest standards of leadership. |
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Kristen Worley | |
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Designer, Author and Professional Speaker
Kristen has lead two careers as a elite high performance athlete representing Canada on an off the field of play. As well, an extensive career across industry practice areas as a designer in the professional field of architecture, with a keen focus on human-centered design. Kristen sees herself as a design steward by taking complex issues and developing applications through the power of design to create unique solutions, while enabling critical thinking and allowing for effective approaches and due diligence for meaningful stakeholder engagement. She helps organizations and businesses to transcend their traditional business boundaries and industry touch points, and re-imagine through the ‘power of design’ a comprehensive integrated approach through the lens of prevention, and a focus on individual health, well-being to elevate communities and cities.
And honored in ‘Canadian Courage’ for her life’ story and commitment to diversity and inclusion within the Olympic and global sporting systems, beyond the field of play, worldwide.
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Yabome Gilpin Jackson Ph.D. | |
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Author, Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion, Simon Fraser University
Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, PhD is an award-winning facilitator and organization development professional. She is a trusted partner for leaders and professionals working to develop people and build organizational capacity for change. She has proven expertise in the areas of leadership development, organizational development, facilitating strategic change and systematic organizing for social change and transformation.
Yabome was named an Institute for Social Innovation Scholar at Fielding Graduate University, CA for her published research and has a ground-breaking book that followed called, Transformation After Trauma, The Power of Resonance. She is a contributor to: Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change and continues to write and speak on Grey Zone Change.
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Bonnie Brayton | |
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National Executive Director, DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) Canada
Bonnie is the National Executive Director of the DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN), who recently celebrated 35 years in service. Bonnie is a recognized leader in both the feminist and disability movements in Canada and internationally. Ms. Brayton is also a founding member of the Ending Violence Association of Canada and served on the Steering Committee of La Maison Parent-Roback, from 2008-15. Ms. Brayton serves on the Advisory Committee for the Jarislowsky Chair in Families and Work at Live Work Well Research Centre at the University of Guelph. She is also the Partner Liaison for a seven-year initiative based at the University of Guelph called “Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development” (EDID). From 2016 to 2021, Ms. Brayton served as a member of the Federal Minister’s Advisory Council on Gender-Based Violence (WAGE). During 2020 and 2021, Ms. Brayton also served Disability Advisory Group the DAG for Minister Carla Qualtrough. Bonnie has also contributed to several anthologies including A BOLD VISION and LIVING THE EDGES, a DisAbled Women’s Reader and the newest release (2021) from Inanna publications STILL LIVING THE EDGES.
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Angela Bains | |
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Graduate Program Director, Assistant Professor, OCAD University, Strategic Director, TransformExp
Angela Bains is a designer, strategist, businesswoman and educator. She is Co-Founder and Strategic Director of TransformExp, an award-winning design firm. At the Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCAD U), Angela holds the position of Graduate Program Director of the Strategic Foresight & Innovation Master’s Program and is a professor in the Advertising Program specialising in the decolonisation of advertising. Throughout her teaching career Angela has been nominated for seven teaching awards of distinction including the nationally recognised, Canadian Design Educators Award of Excellence.
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Yves-Marie Abraham | |
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Author and Associate Professor, Department of Management, HEC Montréal
Yves-Marie Abraham is a professor at HEC Montréal, where he teaches sociology of the economy and conducts research on the theme of degrowth. After co-editing the publication of Degrowth versus Sustainable Development: Debates for the Future of the World (2011) and Digging Down to Where? Extractivisme et limites à la croissance (2015), he recently published a personal synthesis on degrowth, entitled Guérir du mal de l'infini (Healing the pain of infinity). He is also co-director of the specialization in social innovation management in the Master's program at HEC Montréal, where he has been offering a course on "sustainable degrowth" since 2013. Yves-Marie Abraham is also a member of the independent research collective "Polémos décroissance". Polémos décroissance | |
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Jean Teillet | |
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Author and Senior Counsel at Pape, Salter Teillet LLP, specializing in Indigenous right law Ms. Teillet is an author, treaty negotiator, women’s rights advocate and an Indigenous rights litigator. She has appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada twelve times in Indigenous rights cases. Ms. Teillet’s popular history, The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation was one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019 and won the Carol Shield’s and Manitoba Day awards. She is the author of Métis Law in Canada and has written for academic journals, the Globe & Mail and Macleans. A frequent public speaker throughout Canada and internationally, Jean has been awarded the highest honour of her people, the Order of the Métis Nation. The Indigenous Bar Association has awarded Jean it’s highest honour, Indigenous Peoples Counsel. She has three honorary doctorates (University of Guelph, Windsor University and Law Society of Ontario). In recognition of decades of work with midwives, Jean has been made an honorary lifetime member of the Association of Ontario Midwives. She is a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation and is the great grandniece of Louis Riel.
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Peter Flegel | |
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Executive Director of the Government of Canada's Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat
Peter Flegel, a cornerstone of Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy. With his diverse team, Peter is driving whole-of-government systems change in the federal government from an anti-racism perspective. This has entailed reaching and engaging close to 4 million people across Canada to inform policymaking, helping shape new federal policies and legislation, collaborating with foreign allies and working with federal departments and central agencies to implement an anti-racism framework for the entire federal public service. Peter has a distinguished career as a social entrepreneur, fundraiser, columnist, community organizer and musician, with extensive Canadian and international experience working in multilingual and multicultural settings. He has a history of leadership in the government, NGO and philanthropic sectors, in areas including anti-racism, equity, human rights, innovation, culture, international affairs and entrepreneurship. | |
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Siobhan Harty | |
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Assistant Secretary to Cabinet, Privy Council Office Siobhan Harty is Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Priorities and Planning, since October 2020. Over a 20 year public service career, she has gained broad experience in policy areas ranging from economic and social to procurement and IT. She has also enriched her understanding of policy by working in parliamentary affairs and operational areas such as emergency management. | |
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Gail Mitchell | |
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Assistant Deputy Minister, Departmental Program and Operations, Department for Women and Gender Equality Canada
Gail Mitchell joined the public service in 1997 and has worked in the areas of program policy and delivery, strategic policy and corporate services across several departments. Gail recently joined Women and Gender Equality as the Assistant Deputy Minister of Departmental Programs and Operations.
Prior to joining ESDC in 2015, Gail spent over 20 years at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada in a number of roles, including policy analyst, land claims negotiator, Director General of Community Infrastructure and Director General of Strategic Policy, Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs. | |
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Mark Schaan | |
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Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Mark Schaan is the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategy and Innovation Policy at the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). In this role he is responsible for advancing the government's microeconomic policy agenda; supporting the development of the department's horizontal policy and strategic priorities, including by ensuring robust marketplace frameworks telecommunications policy, and the deepening of external relations; and, providing support to regional economic development, as the lead ADM for the Regional Development Agency of Northern Ontario.
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André Loranger | |
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Assistant Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada
André Loranger is currently the Assistant Chief Statistician for Strategic Data Management, Methods and Analysis. He is also Statistics Canada’s Chief Data Officer responsible for the overall stewardship of the organization’s information data holdings.
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Béatrice Alain | |
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Executive Director of Chantier de l'économie sociale
Béatrice Alain is Executive Director of the Chantier de l’économie sociale. The Chantier is an autonomous organization whose mandate is to work with social economy stakeholders to promote and develop collective entrepreneurship in order to contribute to the emergence of a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable development model.
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Ella Saltmarshe | |
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Writer and Co-founder of The Comms Lab and The Long Time Project
Ella Saltmarshe pioneers work at the intersection of culture and systems change. She has set up a number of renowned organisations, communities and campaigns.Trained as an anthropologist, Ella has worked in international development, the creative industries and public policy. Working internationally in places like India, Afghanistan and Latin America, opened her eyes to the impact climate change was having over 15 years ago and tackling it has been a driver of her work ever since. Ella’s burning question is how, as a species, we can create long, flourishing futures for all inhabitants of earth. And so, she has co-founded the Long Time Project - a movement inspiring individuals, organisations and industries to become better ancestors through collective action.
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Garima Talwar Kapoor | |
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Director, Policy and Research, Maytree Foundation Garima Talwar Kapoor is the Director of Policy and Research at Maytree. She previously spent several years with the Ontario Public Service, where she focused on policies and programs that could strengthen our social safety net. She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management from Carleton University. Garima is also currently pursuing her Doctor of Public Health from the University of Toronto. | |
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Hayden King | |
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Executive Director, Yellowhead Institute
Hayden King is Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation on Gchi'mnissing and is the Executive Director of the Yellowhead Institute in Toronto, Ontario. Hayden has taught at McMaster and Carleton Universities as well as the First Nations Technical Institute, held senior fellowships at Massey College and the Conference Board of Canada, and served in senior advisory roles to provincial and First Nation governments and Inuit organizations. He is the co-founder of the language-arts collective Ogimaa Mikana Project, the co-host of the Red Road Podcast, and his writing, analysis and commentary on Indigenous politics and policy is published widely. | |
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Sean Mullin | |
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Executive Director, Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Sean Mullin is the Executive Director at Brookfield Institute, an economist, public policy expert, leader and thinker. In 2015, he joined the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E) as its founding Executive Director, where he provides strategic direction and leads the overall day-to-day activities of the institute.
Prior to joining BII+E, Sean served as the Chief of Staff at a Toronto-based private equity firm, where he worked at the intersection of finance and management strategy. Sean also served for more than six years in senior advisory roles to the Premier of Ontario and Ontario’s Minister of Finance, where, among other responsibilities, he coordinated the development of the annual Budget for the Province of Ontario. | |
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Jennifer Ditchburn | |
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Public Policy Research
Jennifer is the President and CEO of the IRPP. She is a not-for-profit sector executive and seasoned communicator with 25 years of experience working to make complex public policy issues and politics better understood by Canadians. From 2016 to 2021, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the IRPP’s influential digital magazine, Policy Options.
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Alex Ryan Ph.D. | |
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Author and Senior Vice-President, Partners Solutions, MaRS District Discovery
Alex Ryan leads partner solutions at MaRS, helping government and corporate partners accelerate the adoption of innovation in their organizations, markets and cities. He oversees teams that are helping decarbonize electricity grids, design inclusive smart cities, improve community health and well-being, employ thousands of NEET youth, strengthen the impact investing market, and grow Canada’s innovation economy. His writing on smart cities, data governance, policy innovation, social innovation, systemic design, and complex systems science has been published by the World Economic Forum, Fast Company, Axios, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Complexity.
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Catherine Charbonneau | |
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Director, Policy Community Partnership Office, Employment and Social Development Canada
Catherine brings energy and passion for policy interventions towards inclusive design, strategic alignment, and user-centered evidence sense-making. Catherine is a caring provocateur and crafty organizational designer deliberately engineering pivot moments to surface unarticulated needs for tangible impact. She holds an MPA from Carleton University, is a certified organizational development professional from the NTL Institute of Behavioural Sciences, a certified ACM Integral Canada Coach, and experienced bilingual facilitator.
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Neil Bouwer | |
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Vice-President, Innovation and Skills Development, Canada School of Public Service
Neil Bouwer is currently the Vice-President of Innovation and Skills Development Branch at the Canada School of Public Service. He has also served as an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and the Privy Council Office of Canada; and in executive positions at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canada.
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