Faculty By Area of Interest

Business Analysis

Patrick van Abbema

Patrick has more than 20 years of progressive accomplishments in competitive digital media, Web collaboration and Enterprise/SaaS software markets. Patrick is the Senior Project Advisor and Chief Business Analyst for AltNexus Corp. and provides consu

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Ron Babin

Ron Babin is a gifted instructor with a passion for Information Technology, at the Schulich Executive Education Centre.  Ron has a BA in computer science, an MBA and he’s also a Certified Management Consultant. Formerly a full-time management co

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David Barrett

David Barrett is the President of Solutions Network Ltd., Group Conference Director with Diversified Business Communications Canada and Program Director at The Schulich Executive Education Centre, Schulich School of Business, York University. In his

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Christine Beaulieu

Christine Beaulieu is an experienced information technology executive with more than twenty years of expertise in the management of large I.T. departments and in the implementation and management of information systems. Her career has been largely fo

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Lesa Berec

Lesa is a principal of Userproof, a consulting firm specializing in writing, training and change for major Canadian firms in retail, financial, telecommunications and other sectors. An award-winning communication specialist with more than 20 years ex

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Georges Bryson

Georges Bryson is a senior business analyst, consultant and vice-president of MontGuide. He has more than 30 years’ experience in business analysis in the field of information technology and is a change agent, mastering methodologies for structured a

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Ken Buchanan

Ken Buchanan, MCITP, MCDBA, MCBA, is the senior instructor / solutions architect for Atocrates Project Sciences supporting the Business Analysis and Project Management Masters Certificate programs in the National Capital and Québec regions. A graduat

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Michael Cambron

A bilingual manager with more than 30 years of experience in project management and systems engineering management, Michel has worked at Spar Aerospace, Bombardier, Harmon industries and CAE as a project manager and a process improvement manager. Amo

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Gladys Carroll

Gladys has strong leadership ability and has managed her project teams with a positive and supportive approach.  She has worked with a diversified client base as corporate instructor and project manager for more than 20 years. Gladys has delive

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Roy Cook

Roy Cook, MBA, PMP®, ASQ-CQM, CBAP® is an award-winning senior adviser / instructor with Atocrates Project Sciences. He has managed a wide variety of business process simplification and improvement initiatives, including financial process streamlinin

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Clément Côté

Clément is a world-class instructor and management advisor with more than 20 years experience in project management and complex business analysis. He holds both his PMP and CBAP professional designations. Clement's expertise includes project pla

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Beverley Fingerhut

As co-director of the Schulich Executive Education Centre’s Masters Certificate in Business Analysis program since 2002, Beverley is responsible for developing the curriculum, marketing and managing the overall program, and ensuring the excellence of

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Doug Land

Doug is the program director, Western Canada for the Masters Certificate in Project Management program. He is also senior vice-president and program director, Western Canada for Atocrates and president of Lobstick Project Solutions Inc. Doug is an aw

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W.G.M. (Bud) Lush

Bud Lush, MSc, PhD, FRCPM, CLP, is co-founder, chair & chief technical officer of Atocrates Project Sciences. He is a perennial award-winning international consultant/instructor. He has more than 35 years direct working and teaching experience in

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Perry McLeod

Perry is a seasoned professional with hands on experience in all phases of Business Analysis. He currently serves as Executive Vice President for the IIBA Toronto/GTA chapter and board member/lecturer for Business Analysis World.

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Debbie Showler

Debbie Showler, Dip HR, MCBA, is chief business analyst and a multiple award-winning instructor for Atocrates Project Sciences. She has more than 15 years’ experience in the project environment primarily within the heavy manufacturing business sector

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Business Operations

Haig Baronikian

Haig is founder, president and senior consultant at eFuel Partners Inc. He has more than 25 years of experience in the eLearning, eHealth, telecom and information technology fields. He has held leadership positions in corporate strategy, marketing, R

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Claire Beaulne

Claire Beaulne is a highly acclaimed bilingual instructor and speaker with a commitment to positive change in individuals and organizations. At the Schuilch School of Business, York University, she specializes in leadership development, team skills a

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Joe Beckett

Joe Beckett is a Lean Sensei, and Senior Trainer and Consultant for e-Zsigma (Canada) Inc. Joe began his Lean journey in 1999 while leading production for a provider of wireless telecommunications infrastructure. In addition, Joe implements Lean in v

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Gilles Belanger

Gilles Belanger is a bilingual training instructor specializing in the areas of Management and Professional Effectiveness for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  Since 1983, he has trained managers at all levels as well as technical an

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Markus Biehl

MS (Kaiserslautern), MS & PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology) Markus Biehl is a professor in the Department of Operations Management & Information Systems in the Schulich School of Business. He teaches courses on global supply chain and in

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Juri Chabursky

With an outstanding 20 plus years of experience as a highly sought after educator, Juri Chabursky, CSP, helps his Schulich Executive Education participants achieve outstanding performance results by helping them bridge the “potential performance gap”

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James L. Darroch

James L. Darroch is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University. He holds an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Strategic Management and International Business from York University. Pro

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David A. Johnston

David A. Johnston, PhD, specializes in the areas supply chain management for the Schulich School of Business, York University. Dr. Johnston has successfully researched, taught and also consulted internationally in the area of supply management. Dr. J

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Ashwin Joshi

Ashwin is director of the MBA Program and co-director of the York Consulting Group at the Schulich School of Business, York University, where he is also a professor of marketing. Ashwin teaches in the BBA, MBA, PhD and Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA

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Rekha Karambayya

Professor Rekha Karambayya is an Associate Professor who specializes in Organizational Behaviour and Industrial Relations for the Schulich School of Business.  She strived for excellence throughout a solid academic career and obtained her Ph.D from t

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Matthias Kipping

Matthias teaches in the BBA and MBA Programs at Schulich as well as in the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA Program. He also teaches a course on cross-cultural management in the international week of the Kellogg-WHU EMBA in Germany, which is attended b

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Gail Levitt

Gail Levitt is a communications specialist educator at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  With over 20 years’ experience in delivering lively and practical programs in interpersonal communications, intercultural communications, p

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Ingrid McLeod-Dick

Ingrid McLeod-Dick is a Chartered Accountant with 16 years of experience in public practice and an MBA graduate from York University's Schulich School of Business.  She is currently a full-time lecturer at Schulich teaching graduate level MBA co

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Atipol Supapol

Atipol Supapol is Chair, Economics Area of the Schulich School of Business and Associate Professor of Economics. He specializes in international technology transfer, multi-national corporations; alternative contractual arrangements as well as economi

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Michael Twohey

Michael holds his Ph.D from Cambridge University. He worked at CIBC Wealth Management and Franklin Templeton Investments in Toronto before returning to York in 2001 to work at the York University English Language Institute (YUELI), where he is the As

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Financial Services Management

Stephanie Ben-Ishai

Professor Ben-Ishai teaches contract law, insolvency law (domestic and comparative), commercial law (domestic and comparative) and corporate governance law (domestic and comparative). She has published widely and made numerous Canadian and internatio

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Robert Broadbent

Bob Broadbent, MBA, PMP®, is an award-winning senior adviser/instructor with Atocrates Project Sciences. He is a certified adult educator and specializes in the delivery of strategic and financial management programs such as Project Cost Management,

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Dom Cianflone

Dom is an accomplished instructor at Schulich in Strategic Management Accounting. He is a published author and sought-after speaker, is a Certified Management Accountant, and has been appointed a Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants of Ca

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Elizabeth Farrell

Elizabeth Farrell is an Adjunct Professor of Accounting for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  Elizabeth specializes in all of the complexities and intricacies of Accounting.  Prior to her time at the Schulich School of Busi

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Diana Graham

Diana Graham is an educator for the Schulich School of Business, York University, with a proven track record in the design, implementation and management of large scale change in financial institutions. Respected for her leadership capabilities and q

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Bert Kohen

Bert Kohen teaches Financial Analysis and Control for Managers at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  With a comprehensive approach to learning, Bert transplants his 30 years of real-world industry experience inside the classroom

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Atipol Supapol

Atipol Supapol is Chair, Economics Area of the Schulich School of Business and Associate Professor of Economics. He specializes in international technology transfer, multi-national corporations; alternative contractual arrangements as well as economi

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Healthcare Sector

Sue Anderson

Sue Anderson is an accomplished organizational communications professional who teaches at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  Prior to Schulich, Sue amassed close to three decades worth of industry experience as the Director of In

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Kim Bercovitz

Dr. Kim Bercovitz is a leading healthcare professional who teaches Healthcare Management for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  Over 17 years of practice, Kim has demystified tough research topics and connected with hard-to-reach

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Kathy Brooks

Ms. Brooks has over 22 years of experience in the private and public sectors working with educational, program, and financial data. Her experience includes teaching, training, data analyses, system and program evaluation, cash forecasting, system aut

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Kevin Empey

S. Kevin Empey is chief executive officer of Lakeridge Health. He is a chartered accountant and Canadian healthcare executive who is also a graduate of Harvard’s Advanced Management Program. Kevin has been president and CEO at Lakeridge since July 2

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Eric Fonberg

Eric Fonberg, MD, MPH, MBA, CCFP (EM) D-ABDA Dr. Fonberg received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario. He received a Masters Degree in Public Health from Harvard University and a master’s degree in Business Administration from

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Peter Gardiner-Harding

Peter Gardiner-Harding is a corporate actor and learning facilitator. He co-founded playsthatwork inc. in 1989 and produces experiential-based training products which bring the spirit of theatrical discipline to business. As well as taking on such tr

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Liane Ginsburg

Liane Ginsburg trained in health care organization and management at the University of Toronto where she received her PhD. She is an associate professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University and an Ontario Ministry of Healt

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Louise Hartley

Dr. Louise Hartley is director of York University’s Psychology Clinic. She is a registered psychologist and also holds a corporate coaching certificate. Dr. Hartley has expertise in the field of organizational development, which includes both individ

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Justine Jackson

Justine Jackson is a Certified Management Accountant and holds an MBA. Her experiences include: member on the Ontario Wait Times Strategy's Orthopaedic Expert Panel, Cataract Surgery Expert Panel and the Toronto Hip and Knee Task Force. She is a memb

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Jack Kitts

Dr. Jack Kitts, MD (’80) MBA, FRCPS, is president of The Ottawa Hospital, recognized as one of the largest and most important research and teaching hospitals in Canada, and associate professor at the University of Ottawa. He received his medical degr

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Claire Mallette

Claire Mallette is the director of the School of Nursing at York University. Prior to coming to York she had a diverse career in academia, administration, research and clinical practice, and held roles as a faculty member, chief nursing officer and m

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Tara McCarville

Director, Courtyard Group

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Roderick Morgan

Roderick Morgan is an instructor who specializes in Lean Six Sigma for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  With a solid background in finance, information technologies, and solution selling, Rod draws on a broad field of knowledge

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Monica Olsen

MHRD, BScN, BA Olsen and Associates Consulting Inc. Monica Olsen is an organization effectiveness consultant and a long-standing member of the PMI faculty. Her expertise focuses on the areas of leadership development, facilitation, curriculum desig

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Emma Pavlov

Emma Pavlov, Program Director The Masters Certificate in Healthcare Management Schulich Executive Education Centre Schulich School of Business, York University

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Kevin Quinn

Kevin Quinn is a senior consultant at Leadership Frontiers, an international consulting and training firm based in Toronto. Kevin has more than 20 years of experience as a trainer and consultant, following 10 years as a project manager in IT where h

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Rebecca Repa

Rebecca Repa is president of St. Peter’s Hospital & integrated vice-president diagnostic imaging and laboratory medicine at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and Hamilton Health Sciences. Rebecca began her role as president of St. Peter’s Hospita

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Tyson Roffey

Tyson Roffey is currently the Chief Information and Privacy Officer at CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario). Recent accomplishments at CHEO include the creation of a five-year plan; implementation of a pharmacy system, nursing documentation

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Deborah Tregunno

Deborah Tregunno is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at York University, Toronto. She holds a PhD (Health Policy, Management and Evaluation) from the University of Toronto, specializing in the field of organizational behaviour and perf

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Human Resources

Innovation

Rhona G. Berengut

Rhona is an award winning part-time faculty member of York University’s Schulich School of Business, Program Director for SEEC’s Professional Certificate in Business Administration, and founding partner of SIGMA Strategic Solutions Inc. where she wor

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Keka DasGupta

Currently president of Precision Marketing Group Inc., Keka is a PR and marketing veteran. She has been teaching companies and institutions the principles of ethnic marketing for almost a decade. Her skills were honed through her work with high profi

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Lee-Anne McAlear

Lee-Anne McAlear is co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Applied Innovation Management for the Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University.Lee-Anne is an experienced facilitator, writer, consultant and speaker with a background in inno

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Megan Mitchell

Consultant, speaker, author and educator, Megan is Director of Happen North America, an insight-based innovation company, and co-director of SEEC’s Centre of Excellence in Applied Innovation Management. Megan is an accomplished leader in Innovation,

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Leadership

Kristin J. Arnold

As a member of the Executive Development Faculty at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Kristin J. Arnold, MBA, CMC, CPF, CSP is passionate about people being engaged in working together.  As a high stakes meeting facilitator, trai

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Rhona G. Berengut

Rhona is an award winning part-time faculty member of York University’s Schulich School of Business, Program Director for SEEC’s Professional Certificate in Business Administration, and founding partner of SIGMA Strategic Solutions Inc. where she wor

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Scott Campbell

Scott is an accomplished speaker, consultant and author with more than twenty years of management and leadership experience. He works with clients across Canada, in the United States, and globally. His enthusiastic, humorous and high-energy style, ma

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Sandra Carrigan

Dr. Sandra Carrigan excels at turning people skills into unprecedented results. Her career has spanned more than 25 years, including leadership positions at FranklinCovey. She is a renowned facilitator and coach in communication, leadership developme

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Fares Chmait

Fares Chmait is an instructor for the Schulich School of Business, Executive Education Development, and York University.  Career wise, since 1986, Fares has enabled a wide variety of companies to meet their business goals. Inspired and inspirati

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David S. Cohen

Considered one of the thought leaders in the area of talent management, David has been speaking on the topic of management and leadership for more than 25 years, and his work crosses all business sectors. His passion is aligning an organization's peo

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Wesley Cragg

Dr. Wesley Cragg teaches the Management 3 – The Leaders Program at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  With a specialization in Policy/Strategy and Responsible Business, Cragg offers all participants of his courses not only a thorough

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Peter Gardiner-Harding

Peter Gardiner-Harding is a corporate actor and learning facilitator. He co-founded playsthatwork inc. in 1989 and produces experiential-based training products which bring the spirit of theatrical discipline to business. As well as taking on such tr

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Liane Ginsburg

Liane Ginsburg trained in health care organization and management at the University of Toronto where she received her PhD. She is an associate professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University and an Ontario Ministry of Healt

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Corey Jack

Corey Jack is a Program Director with the Schulich Executive Education Centre where he coaches and instructs executives across a myriad of organizations.  Corey possesses unique and extensive experience in the field of corporate universities, st

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Suzie Labonne

Suzie Labonne is consultant in management with a focus on change and organizational development.  She helps clients with deep transformation initiatives both through redesign and change management.  Her areas of expertise include Human Reso

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Tracey Levison

Tracey Levison is an experienced instructor who specializes in experiential learning by facilitating programs that focus on team building and leadership development.  Tracey has a Philosophy Degree from the University of Western Ontario and is a memb

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W.G.M. (Bud) Lush

Bud Lush, MSc, PhD, FRCPM, CLP, is co-founder, chair & chief technical officer of Atocrates Project Sciences. He is a perennial award-winning international consultant/instructor. He has more than 35 years direct working and teaching experience in

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Françoise Morissette

Françoise is a consultant, academic, and author with a national profile. She is a major contributor to the field of Organizational Development (OD) with a proven ability to think and act across systems. Consequently, her career spans across the count

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Colin Pearson

Colin Pearson is a guest instructor with a focus towards organizational development for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  Participants often praise his down-to-earth presentation style which has ultimately allowed him to work success

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Sid Ridgley

Sid Ridgley specializes in areas focused on leadership development for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  He provides insights, guidance and practical tips & hints to leaders in their pursuit of creating organizational workpl

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Blair Roblin

Blair Roblin, Managing Director of Corporate Finance, Transactions and Valuations with Farber Financial Group, has 25 years experience in financing, structuring and advising on mergers and acquisitions in roles as an investment banker, lender and con

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Hazel Rosin

Hazel M. Rosin is a professor of Organizational Behaviour at York University's Schulich School of Business. She received a PhD in Organizational Behaviour in 1986 from Yale University and previously worked at IBM World Headquarters in New York. A Cer

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Joseph Sherren, CSP, HoF

Joe is a professional management instructor and President of Ethos Enterprises Inc, where he has trained thousands of managers in the areas of leadership, team development and group motivation. His corporate experience includes 25 years in senior man

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Lee Watchorn

C.L.F. Watchorn teaches Corporate Development: A Global Perspective Program for the Schulich School of Business, York University.   Mr. Watchorn had a lengthy career with Sun Life Financial and for 8 years he was responsible for all of Sun

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Management

Clément Beaumont

Clément Beaumont developed his Project Management and manager competencies serving with the Canadian Forces (CF). While serving at the National Defence Headquarters, he worked as Project coordinator for two major projects. Following that, he was appo

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Rhona G. Berengut

Rhona is an award winning part-time faculty member of York University’s Schulich School of Business, Program Director for SEEC’s Professional Certificate in Business Administration, and founding partner of SIGMA Strategic Solutions Inc. where she wor

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Mark Bowden

Mark is a leader in both European and North American training, with a solid track record of lecturing regularly at the UK's top universities including Oxford and Cambridge, and academies, including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). A highly d

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Laura Boyd-Brown

An accomplished speaker, seminar leader, strategist and coach, Laura Boyd-Brown, BBA, CAE, CHRP, RPR, CPSC, has gained invaluable insights in business with more than 25 years of corporate experience. A graduate in Business from Mount Saint Vincent Un

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Karen Chiykowski

Karen is a full-time award-winning instructor at the Schulich Schoolof Business teaching graduate level MBA and BBA courses in management accounting and corporate finance and financial analysis. Prior to joining York, Karen spent 15 years in the fina

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Chip Clark

Chip Clark is an organization development consultant who first learned project management in 1988, working with high-tech project managers in California’s Silicon Valley. She spent the next several years teaching project management skills to product

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David S. Cohen

Considered one of the thought leaders in the area of talent management, David has been speaking on the topic of management and leadership for more than 25 years, and his work crosses all business sectors. His passion is aligning an organization's peo

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Clément Côté

Clément is a world-class instructor and management advisor with more than 20 years experience in project management and complex business analysis. He holds both his PMP and CBAP professional designations. Clement's expertise includes project pla

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Wesley Cragg

Dr. Wesley Cragg teaches the Management 3 – The Leaders Program at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  With a specialization in Policy/Strategy and Responsible Business, Cragg offers all participants of his courses not only a thorough

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Terence Flynn

Entrepreneur, innovator, and researcher: Three simple words that best describe the talent and experience of Dr. Terence Flynn. Over the last two decades, Terry has practiced and taught reputation management, strategic public relations management, cri

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Stephen Friedman

Stephen Friedman is an executive coach, career coach, facilitator and trainer, working in the areas of management interpersonal skills, group development, strategic thinking skills and HR for numerous organizations and individuals. His experience wit

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Corey Jack

Corey Jack is a Program Director with the Schulich Executive Education Centre where he coaches and instructs executives across a myriad of organizations.  Corey possesses unique and extensive experience in the field of corporate universities, st

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Alan Kay

Alan is one of Canada's most experienced marketing communications executives. He is past President of the American Marketing Association – Toronto Chapter. Alan's diverse clients include Bell Canada, IBM, RBC Financial Group, Cineplex Entertainment

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Gerry Keogh

Gerry Keogh is an instructor for the Schulich School of Business, York University who specializes in project management.  He has more than twenty-seven years of experience in applying structured project management process across various types of

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Gail Levitt

Gail Levitt is a communications specialist educator at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  With over 20 years’ experience in delivering lively and practical programs in interpersonal communications, intercultural communications, p

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W.G.M. (Bud) Lush

Bud Lush, MSc, PhD, FRCPM, CLP, is co-founder, chair & chief technical officer of Atocrates Project Sciences. He is a perennial award-winning international consultant/instructor. He has more than 35 years direct working and teaching experience in

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Kelley Marko

Kelley is President of Marko Consulting Services Inc. and is a Master Trainer and Professional Executive Coach of Emotional Intelligence (EQ).  Kelley is also a Leadership Development and Change Consultant and a Certified Adult Educator who has

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Sandra Martyn

Sandra Martyn is a highly skilled instructor that specializes in project management and business administration for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  Sandra has over 20 years of experience managing projects.  As a respected

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Theodore Peridis

Theodore Peridis is a professor of Strategic Management and International Business at the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Toronto, Canada and Director of the York Consulting Group.  Theo has taught Strategic Management at the gr

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Sid Ridgley

Sid Ridgley specializes in areas focused on leadership development for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  He provides insights, guidance and practical tips & hints to leaders in their pursuit of creating organizational workpl

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Blair Roblin

Blair Roblin, Managing Director of Corporate Finance, Transactions and Valuations with Farber Financial Group, has 25 years experience in financing, structuring and advising on mergers and acquisitions in roles as an investment banker, lender and con

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Joseph Sherren, CSP, HoF

Joe is a professional management instructor and President of Ethos Enterprises Inc, where he has trained thousands of managers in the areas of leadership, team development and group motivation. His corporate experience includes 25 years in senior man

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Atipol Supapol

Atipol Supapol is Chair, Economics Area of the Schulich School of Business and Associate Professor of Economics. He specializes in international technology transfer, multi-national corporations; alternative contractual arrangements as well as economi

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Michael Twohey

Michael holds his Ph.D from Cambridge University. He worked at CIBC Wealth Management and Franklin Templeton Investments in Toronto before returning to York in 2001 to work at the York University English Language Institute (YUELI), where he is the As

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Elizabeth-Anne Walker

Elizabeth-Anne Walker teaches Improving Presentation Effectiveness at the Executive Development Division of the Schulich School of Business, York University. In 2004, she launched two new programs: Advanced Account Management and High Yield Selling;

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Brenda Zimmerman

Brenda is an associate professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University and a partner in Change-Ability Inc. At York, Brenda recently founded and directs the Health Industry Management Program. Brenda teaches leadership, problem solvin

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Marketing

Susan Abbott

Susan Abbott is an expert in customer service experience strategy.  She is a skilled moderator and facilitator, who readily and effortlessly creates rapport across a wide range, from executives to students.    Her long-standing pass

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Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong is a seasoned senior executive with extensive background in marketing, strategy development, strategy implementation, and general management. Chris also possesses strong financial, analytical, and problem solving abilities that comple

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Sue Austin

Sue Austin is a certified professional coach who specializes in leadership and team coaching within both for profit and not-for-profit organizations. Sue is a brand and marketing expert as well.  In 2003, she decided to pursue her passion of lea

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Mark Bowden

Mark is a leader in both European and North American training, with a solid track record of lecturing regularly at the UK's top universities including Oxford and Cambridge, and academies, including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). A highly d

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John Bozzo

John Bozzo has almost 30 years’ experience in corporate management, marketing, communications, public affairs, brand management, partnerships, sponsorships and sales support, as well as a proven ability to build strong organizations and brands and in

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Alexandra Campbell

Alexandra Campbell is a professor of marketing at Schulich and has taught as a visiting professor in Mexico and France. Her consulting experience spans both the manufacturing and service sectors working for companies such as Imperial Oil, Allergan Op

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John Dalla Costa

John Dalla Costa specializes in ethics and integrity designed specifically to allow business in both the public and private sectors and also non-government groups to adopt the practices and plan for the future. John is the founder of the Centre for E

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Sanjay J. Dhebar

Sanjay has a diverse background that includes various commercial management roles for both start-ups and established pharmaceutical companies. Prior to that he worked at a Toronto based advertising agency. Over the last 5 years he has been an instruc

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Louise Doucet

Joint Managing Partner, TerraNova Market Strategies Inc. Louise has managed a wide range of research programs and the strategic application of infield learning, and has spent much of her career studying the physical and emotional needs, habits, m

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Lee Godfrey

Lee Godfrey began working on web-based projects in 1993, making her one of Canada’s internet pioneers. With over twenty years of consulting experience, and nearly a decade as one of Canada’s best known eBusiness educators, Lee brings a solid understa

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Livia Grujich

Livia is a founding partner of ON Q Communications Inc., and brings to the classroom a tremendous level of experience in the fields of marketing and PR. She is a specialist in innovative new-age services that include social media, public relations

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Kate Hand

Kate Hand is an experienced adult trainer and instructional designer. She has worked in and has an in-depth understanding of not-for-profit associations, academic institutions, corporate consulting firms, United Nations agencies, and various internat

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Jeannette Hanna

President, Ikonica Brands Inc. Jeannette is a brand strategist and co-author of Ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape, offering an inside look at the major players in Canadian branding.

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Tom Hendrikson

During his 20-year career in marketing and sales at Kraft Foods, Tom Hendrikson helped hundreds of high performers achieve business and personal success. Today as co-founder of Sixsense Strategy Group, he applies his longstanding passion for helping

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Barbara Jones

Barbara has an in-depth background in marketing and training professionals with a broad base of expertise in the financial services industry.  Participants of SEEC programs taught by Barbara will be introduced to skilled planning strategies whic

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Diana Kawarsky

Diana Kawarsky specializes in business communications for the Schulich School of Business, York University. She has more than 15 years of experience as a senior professional business writer and communications adviser. Along her career path, she has h

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Alan Kay

Alan is one of Canada's most experienced marketing communications executives. He is past President of the American Marketing Association – Toronto Chapter. Alan's diverse clients include Bell Canada, IBM, RBC Financial Group, Cineplex Entertainment

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Marcel Massie

Marcel is one of North America’s most experienced marketing and sales executives, with over 30 years of senior marketing and sales leadership in consumer and business-to-business markets, including Procter and Gamble, General Foods, International Pla

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Trina McQueen

Trina McQueen is an adjunct professor specializing in Arts and Media Administration for the Schulich School of Business, York University. Mrs. McQueen is a veteran television broadcaster who has held senior management positions in both public and pri

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Alan Middleton

Assistant Professor of Marketing • Executive Director, Schulich Executive Education Centre (SEEC) BSc (London, UK); MBA & PhD (York) After a stellar 25 year career as a marketing practitioner with Esso Petroleum, UOP Inc. then rising to the pos

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Anne Myers

Anne Myers teaches the Advertising, Media & Web-Based Communications Planning: An Integrated Approach.  Anne has been a media specialist for over the past two decades and has extensive experience working alongside and within the trenches of

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Brenda Pritchard

Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Brenda's practice has focused exclusively on advertising and marketing for more than 25 years. Her clients include top advertising agencies, Fortune 500 manufacturers, production houses and publishers.

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Ajay K. Sirsi, PhD

Associate Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business His current research focuses on business strategy development and implementation, market segmentation, and tools to understand customer needs. Ajay has an extensive global consulting

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Detlev Zwick, PhD

Detlev is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business teaching Interactive and High-Technology Marketing on the MBA level. He has done extensive research in the field of online and interactive marketing, and works in Europe

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Municipal Governance

Rhona G. Berengut

Rhona is an award winning part-time faculty member of York University’s Schulich School of Business, Program Director for SEEC’s Professional Certificate in Business Administration, and founding partner of SIGMA Strategic Solutions Inc. where she wor

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Robert Harris

Robert Harris teaches the Masters Certificate in Municipal Leadership at the Schulich Executive Education Centre, Schulich School of Business, York University.  Robert’s areas of expertise encompass change leadership and communications, conflict

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Linda Irvine

Linda Irvine, RN, BScN, MEd, as Head of Corporate Learning and Organizational Development for York Region, brings more than 25 years of leadership and education experience to her role as facilitator. She has occupied strategic management, education a

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Sid Ridgley

Sid Ridgley specializes in areas focused on leadership development for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  He provides insights, guidance and practical tips & hints to leaders in their pursuit of creating organizational workpl

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Project Management

Patrick van Abbema

Patrick has more than 20 years of progressive accomplishments in competitive digital media, Web collaboration and Enterprise/SaaS software markets. Patrick is the Senior Project Advisor and Chief Business Analyst for AltNexus Corp. and provides consu

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Don Ball

Don Ball has held a variety of engineering, marketing and sales positions in technical fields over the last 20 years, and understands the processes and challenges involved in commercializing technology products. He is keenly interested in developin

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David Barrett

David Barrett is the President of Solutions Network Ltd., Group Conference Director with Diversified Business Communications Canada and Program Director at The Schulich Executive Education Centre, Schulich School of Business, York University. In his

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Christine Beaulieu

Christine Beaulieu is an experienced information technology executive with more than twenty years of expertise in the management of large I.T. departments and in the implementation and management of information systems. Her career has been largely fo

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Douglas B. Boebinger

Douglas B. Boebinger, PMP, has spent the last 25-plus years assisting companies in various industries as a project manager, consultant and trainer to implement project management and improve their project processes. Doug received his undergraduate an

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Pierre Boivin

Pierre Boivin is the Director of the Master Certificate in Project Management Program of the Laval-York Universities partnership.  With over thirty years of experience in marketing, corporate communications, administration and general project ma

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Robert Broadbent

Bob Broadbent, MBA, PMP®, is an award-winning senior adviser/instructor with Atocrates Project Sciences. He is a certified adult educator and specializes in the delivery of strategic and financial management programs such as Project Cost Management,

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Philip C. Brown

Phil Brown is a coach/instructor who specializes in Financial Services with a direct focus within the areas of strategy, sales, and marketing at the Schulich School of Business, York University.  With more than three decades worth of senior exec

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Ken Buchanan

Ken Buchanan, MCITP, MCDBA, MCBA, is the senior instructor / solutions architect for Atocrates Project Sciences supporting the Business Analysis and Project Management Masters Certificate programs in the National Capital and Québec regions. A graduat

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Michael Cambron

A bilingual manager with more than 30 years of experience in project management and systems engineering management, Michel has worked at Spar Aerospace, Bombardier, Harmon industries and CAE as a project manager and a process improvement manager. Amo

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Gladys Carroll

Gladys has strong leadership ability and has managed her project teams with a positive and supportive approach.  She has worked with a diversified client base as corporate instructor and project manager for more than 20 years. Gladys has delive

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Dale Christenson

Dale Christenson is the founder and president of the Project Management Centre of Excellence Inc. He is a Certified Management Consultant and Project Management Professional specializing in project management consulting and training. He combines an e

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Chip Clark

Chip Clark is an organization development consultant who first learned project management in 1988, working with high-tech project managers in California’s Silicon Valley. She spent the next several years teaching project management skills to product

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Malcolm Cowan

Malcolm is a seasoned 35 year veteran of the computer and telecommunication business. He has held a number of senior positions in these industries and has a number of accomplishments in the development, commercialization and marketing of technology.

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Benoit De Grâce

Currently acting as senior VP and regional director for the Project Management Centre, Benoit also provides services in process and methodology definition as well as systems implementation and training. He is also the Director of IFGP – Institut de f

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Ariel Deluy

Ariel Deluy’s experience spans more than 15 years during which he implemented enterprise project management systems, building and managing multidisciplinary and highly effective project teams to deliver complex solution for clients, and providing str

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Roxane Fast

Roxane Fast has a unique blend of expertise including project management, financial management and business analysis holding designations as a Project Management Professional (PMP®), Certified Management Accountant (CMA®) and a Registered PRINCE2® Pr

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Tom Flynn

Tom Flynn is a senior associate of the Project Management Centre with more than 30 years of project management experience. Tom has developed corporate and project management methodologies, as well as numerous project management courses, including cor

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Celine Goodine

Celine is a sought after international instructor with experience as a project manager on IT related projects, behavioral science projects as well as course development and delivery projects. She has effectively shaped and supported high performance

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Julie Grabb

Julie is an accomplished project management trainer and coach with more than 20 years' experience within both the public and private sectors. Julie brings a proven success record in project leadership and delivery as well as training. A veteran of mo

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Jack Hellberg

Jack Hellberg developed his project management expertise through a breadth and depth of project management activities lasting 30 years. Projects have been in information technology, industrial controls, business information systems, defence systems,

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Jeff Henry

Jeff Henry is president & CEO of Sinora International Research & Consulting Inc., providing business and project management consulting, education and project planning and management. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, al

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May Jim

May Jim is an expert in business consulting, project and people management, systems integration and workflow. She has played key roles in process re-engineering and application development projects with specialization in the financial and telecommuni

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Kathy Jourdain

Kathy Jourdain teaches in the Masters Certificate in Project Management for the Schulich School of Business, York University.  Her professional, approachable style has made her a powerful business coach with an impressive track record for helpin

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Gilles Lalonde

Gilles Lalonde is the president of Qualitum Gestion Conseil based in Montréal. He has 17 years of experience as a quality program manager and director of quality assurance in major corporations in the aerospace and aeronautical industries. Gilles tea

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Doug Land

Doug is the program director, Western Canada for the Masters Certificate in Project Management program. He is also senior vice-president and program director, Western Canada for Atocrates and president of Lobstick Project Solutions Inc. Doug is an aw

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W.G.M. (Bud) Lush

Bud Lush, MSc, PhD, FRCPM, CLP, is co-founder, chair & chief technical officer of Atocrates Project Sciences. He is a perennial award-winning international consultant/instructor. He has more than 35 years direct working and teaching experience in

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John McIlroy

John is a seasoned project manager with 20+ years experience managing projects for entrepreneurial technology companies. He is a finance specialist with broad experience in software development and web application projects. He has been teaching proje

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Harry B. Mingail

Harry brings more than 20 years of corporate consulting and teaching experience in technology strategic planning to the classroom. He has successfully instructed and coached thousands of managers to improve their technology project planning and manag

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Mark Moore

PMP Moore, Couture & Assoc. Inc.

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Jim Ouellette

Jim is a certified project director and manager with a 30-year record of successful management accomplishments within the private sector and federal government. Jim’s management experience includes the setup of three project management offices and th

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David Paradi

David Paradi is a Project Management Specialist for the Schulich School of Business, York University. He is an experienced facilitator and Project Leader who specializes in the areas of Project Management, Leadership, and Strategic Planning. He has d

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Wally Peech

PMP Earned Value Management Services Inc.

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Kathryn Pottruff

Kathryn Pottruff is a strategic thinker who translates corporate vision into tactical project plans. She gets results by communicating essential project management ‘know how’ through a practical hands-on approach. Kathryn is an internationally recog

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Tory Salisbury

Victoria (Tory) Salisbury has more than 18 year’s professional experience in project and process management as a consultant, coach, instructor and project manager, working in various public and private sector industries across Canada, the UK and the

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Bryan Walton

Improving business and personal processes has been Bryan Walton’s focus for more than 20 years. In 1990, after an extensive career of senior management positions in the aerospace industry and an MBA from McGill University, Bryan expanded into the tra

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Alan Williams

Alan Williams retired from the federal government after 25 years of operational management. During this time he developed extensive experience in the project management of advanced communication and electronic equipment, specializing in procurement a

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Public Sector

John R. Allen

John is one of the leading experts in Performance Measurement, Strategic Planning and Program Evaluation for public sector organizations. He has instructed thousands of public sector leaders on how to effectively develop and implement the tools and t

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David Barrows

David Barrows as a Director of Sector Development for the Government has found immense success in his career that has driven him for more than the past 20 years.  David Barrows as an instructor for the Schulich School of Business, York University, ha

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Alex Lowy

Alex Lowy is a pre-eminent consultant and educator specializing in the creation of innovative work, learning and information systems to achieve high performance results. Alex has contributed award-winning articles to journals including Training and D

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Ian Macdonald

Ian Macdonald is the Program Co-Director, President Emeritus, York University, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Director of the Master of Public, Administration Program at Schulich School of Business, York University.  Prior to his time

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Amin Mawani

Amin Mawani is an Associate Professor of Taxation at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He holds a Ph.D in Taxation from the University of Waterloo, LL.M in Taxation from Osgoode Hall Law School at York, and his MA in Econ

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Risk Management

Angelo Baratta

Angelo Baratta is a learning facilitator, a coach and a consultant dedicated to process design mastery. His combined decades of practical business experience with organizations across industry sectors, along with thousands of hours of research and de

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Ken Jull

Mr. Jull focuses in the area of risk management strategies to promote regulatory and corporate compliance. Mr. Jull defends regulatory and criminal charges in fields ranging from the environment to competition law, as well as prosecuting on behalf of

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Sales

George Anastasopoulos

George Anastasopoulos is founder, president and head coach at Leadership Fundamentals Inc. He is a highly experienced executive, leadership coach, facilitator and instructor who has worked with hundreds of marketing and sales professionals to help th

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Rhona G. Berengut

Rhona is an award winning part-time faculty member of York University’s Schulich School of Business, Program Director for SEEC’s Professional Certificate in Business Administration, and founding partner of SIGMA Strategic Solutions Inc. where she wor

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Lorella DePieri

Lorella DePieri is Program Director for the Centre of Excellence in Sales Leadership. Her areas of training expertise include sales and sales management, corporate culture and wellness, facilitation, presentation skills, team building, negotiation sk

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Nick Foster

Nick Foster is an experienced executive who spent 30 years practising the craft of sales and marketing in North America's high-tech industry. Today, Nick is consulting with companies who are looking to create more conscious alignment between their cu

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David Gibson

David Gibson is an instructor at the Schulich School of Business, York University who specializes in in competitive intelligence, benchmarking and market analysis, and has instructed managers on effective intelligence gathering techniques for diverse

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Bruce Harbinson

Utilizing the skills he learned as a successful business leader and entrepreneur, Bruce Harbinson has extracted and interpreted what it takes to be successful from start to finish with any and everything business related.  It is with this same a

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Jim Harris

Jim Harris is one of North America’s foremost management consultants, public speakers, authors and thinkers on change and leadership. He has 20 years’ experience as a professional speaker and consultant, and speaks internationally at more than 40 co

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David A. Johnston

David A. Johnston, PhD, specializes in the areas supply chain management for the Schulich School of Business, York University. Dr. Johnston has successfully researched, taught and also consulted internationally in the area of supply management. Dr. J

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Murat Kristal

Murat Kristal, PhD, is an associate professor of operations management at Schulich School of Business at York University. He teaches in the areas of business operations strategy, channel management and customer modeling. Dr. Kristal received his PhD

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Joseph Sherren, CSP, HoF

Joe is a professional management instructor and President of Ethos Enterprises Inc, where he has trained thousands of managers in the areas of leadership, team development and group motivation. His corporate experience includes 25 years in senior man

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Ajay K. Sirsi, PhD

Associate Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business His current research focuses on business strategy development and implementation, market segmentation, and tools to understand customer needs. Ajay has an extensive global consulting

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Brian Harrison Smith

For more than two decades, Brian Harrison Smith has been a business educator. As an educator for the Schulich School of Business, York University, Brian has applied his wealth of knowledge to occupying the minds of SEEC participants who have been for

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Elizabeth-Anne Walker

Elizabeth-Anne Walker teaches Improving Presentation Effectiveness at the Executive Development Division of the Schulich School of Business, York University. In 2004, she launched two new programs: Advanced Account Management and High Yield Selling;

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Security & Safety

Six Sigma

Michael Ewing

Michael Ewing has over 18 years of experience in sales and business strategy, with an emphasis on coaching, negotiation, CRM, marketing, and P&L management. Michael has served over 16 years at American Express, most recently as VP and GM of Trave

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Travis Ratnam

P. Eng, MBA Travis Ratnam is Director, Quality and Master Black Belt for Brambles Industrial Limited. He is responsible for the global deployment of a Lean and Six Sigma based continuous improvement program across all Brambles business units, and de

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Ed Welsh

MBA, Finance and Quantitative Methods – MBB Practitioner, e-Zsigma (Canada) Inc. Prior to joining e-Zsigma, Ed spent more than 15 years of progressive international corporate experience with multinational market leaders and played an integral, ‘hands

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Strategy

Rhona G. Berengut

Rhona is an award winning part-time faculty member of York University’s Schulich School of Business, Program Director for SEEC’s Professional Certificate in Business Administration, and founding partner of SIGMA Strategic Solutions Inc. where she wor

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Alexandra Campbell

Alexandra Campbell is a professor of marketing at Schulich and has taught as a visiting professor in Mexico and France. Her consulting experience spans both the manufacturing and service sectors working for companies such as Imperial Oil, Allergan Op

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David S. Cohen

Considered one of the thought leaders in the area of talent management, David has been speaking on the topic of management and leadership for more than 25 years, and his work crosses all business sectors. His passion is aligning an organization's peo

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Graeme Deans

As an instructor for the Schulich School of Business, York University, Graeme Deans is an expert in the effects of mergers on business. His specialties include business and marketing strategy, organizational design and effectiveness, and, especially

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Sanjay J. Dhebar

Sanjay has a diverse background that includes various commercial management roles for both start-ups and established pharmaceutical companies. Prior to that he worked at a Toronto based advertising agency. Over the last 5 years he has been an instruc

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Mark Norman

Mark is a professional leadership consultant and trainer with extensive experience facilitating teams and relating to the psychology of human dynamics in the workplace. He has led major organizational change initiatives for diverse clients including

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Theodore Peridis

Theodore Peridis is a professor of Strategic Management and International Business at the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Toronto, Canada and Director of the York Consulting Group.  Theo has taught Strategic Management at the gr

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Ajay K. Sirsi, PhD

Associate Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business His current research focuses on business strategy development and implementation, market segmentation, and tools to understand customer needs. Ajay has an extensive global consulting

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Supply Chain & Logistics

Jim Eckler

Jim Eckler is an industry expert on logistics management.  Jim’s background includes over 25 years of experience in the logistics field. He focuses on developing and operating logistics outsourcing services for companies that demand complex, high val

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Diane Fitzgerald

Diane Fitzgerald’s area of expertise for the Schulich School of Business, York University involves Supply Chain & Logistics Management.  As an industry senior executive for over 20 years, Diane mixes a unique combination of industry validate

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Kristine Freudenthaler

As an industry executive with a successful track-record in delivering results, Kristine uses quick, sound and strategic thinking into ensuring participants understand what it takes to engage in winning techniques to problem solving. Much of her u

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Geoff Frodsham

Geoff Frodsham is an experienced retail Supply Chain Executive, with more than 22 years of experience at Canadian Tire, Loblaw Companies, The Home Depot, and Walmart. He has an aptitude for identifying and applying "world class" practices in large sc

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Scott Hadley

Scott Hadley PhD has more than 13 years of international experience in the area of Supply Chain Management. He brings value to participants by helping them to identify strategic and tactical opportunities in the Supply Chain. Scott will help partic

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P.F. (Fraser) Johnson

Professor P.F. Johnson teaches logistics, purchasing & supply management and operations.  Professor Johnson is also an active researcher in the area of purchasing and supply chain management and he is the author of several articles that have been

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Brian Harrison Smith

For more than two decades, Brian Harrison Smith has been a business educator. As an educator for the Schulich School of Business, York University, Brian has applied his wealth of knowledge to occupying the minds of SEEC participants who have been for

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Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is the Program Director for the Centre of Excellence for Supply Chain Management at SEEC, President of META Management Consulting and a regular instructor on Designing and Operating World Class Distribution and Change Management. Mark is

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Ric Williams

Ric Williams is President of Williams and Goffin Consulting Inc. He has had extensive experience in the health care industry through work with a broad range of pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device suppliers, medical laboratories and the Canad

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