Policy Community Conference 2022: Speaker Directory

Feature speakers, moderators, and panelists:

Kristen Worley – Human Centred Design Consultant, Author and Professional Speaker

Dr. Yabome Gilpin Jackson – Organizational Development Professional, Author and Speaker

Dr. 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. She works, consults, teaches (undergraduate and graduate) and conducts research in the areas of leadership, human systems/organization change and development, transformative learning and posttraumatic growth. In addition to being Founder and Principal at SLD consulting, she is currently an Executive Leader for People and Culture within the British Columbia Public Sector and Adjunct/sessional faculty at Concordia University and Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business & the lifelong learning/Executive Education program. Yabome has worked in organization development in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Her private clients have included: Lululemon, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, South African Public Service/UNDP and the Royal College of Canada among others. 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. She was named International African Woman of the Year, received the Emerging Organization Development Professional award and the prestigious Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award in Canada. She is the 2021 Chair of the Organization Development Network.