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|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 centred design I her design practice.
Kristen sees herself as a design steward by taking complex issues and developing applications and 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. Helping organizations and businesses to transcend their traditional business boundaries and industry touch points, and re-imagining through the ‘power of design’ a more comprehensive integrated approaches through the lens of prevention, with the focus on individual health, well-being, while elevating communities and cities.
In recent years, Kristen has been positioned as a global ambassador of social development, and inclusion, utilizing diversity as the central hallmark to her design principals. Her vision has landed her the international attention of International Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Federation. Re-evaluating their global multi-sport models recognizing that they are no longer sustainable, utilizing their unique traits and reach of their global movements and recognizing they can no longer do it alone, and pivoting from the position of leadership to stewardship – assisting and influencing global governments who are connected signatories to their movements by being proactive and ‘stewarding conversations and best practise and empower communities, cities and individual lives no matter ones diversity, and creating environments and economies where people live, work and thrive – enabling people to reach their true potential as one integrated connected ecosystem – leaving no one behind.
Kristen’s autobiography titled ‘Woman Enough’; published by Penguin Random House Canada Spring 2018. As well honoured and in recognition by Harper Collins titled ‘Canadian Courage’; published Fall 2021 for her life’ story and commitment to diversity and inclusion within the Olympic and global sporting systems and beyond the field of play, worldwide.
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|Mark Schaan is an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Strategy and Innovation Policy Sector of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Mark’s policy career has spanned a diversity of files and organizations, including work on retirement income and pensions, life sciences, public service renewal, the modernization of key economic frameworks, and positioning Canada for an innovative future. A prairies-born member of the LGBTQ2+ community, Mark’s passions are many, but he is a policy wonk at heart with a continued commitment to art, education, and community-building.
|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.
Prior to becoming an ADM, Mark was the Director General, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch at ISED. In this role, Mark advised on the policy, legislative, and stakeholder issues relating to laws of general economic application, including privacy and data protection, patents, trademarks, copyright, competitions and insolvency, all in support of an innovative and high-functioning Canadian economy. Mark’s public service career has included roles across the policy spectrum, as well as leading on revitalizing the public service through innovative recruitment models.
Mark earned his BA (Honours) from the University of Waterloo in Political Science with an Honours Option in Peace and Conflict Studies in 2002, where he studied as a Loran Scholar. Mark earned his MPhil in Comparative Social Policy, conferred in 2004, and his DPhil in Social Policy, conferred in 2010 from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Mark has been awarded the Nathalie des Rosiers Audacity of Imagination Award, the Barnett Prize in Social Policy, and the University of Waterloo Young Alumni Award. Mark is also actively involved in his community: sitting on the board of the Ottawa Art Gallery; founding a new initiative at the National Gallery of Canada; active involvement in the Ten Oaks Project, including helping to launch Project Acorn, a community building space for youth of LGBTQ+ identities, families, and communities; and continued involvement with the Loran Scholars Foundation.
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