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Mr. Brewin is Vice-president, Solutions Delivery at IT/Net, a wholly owned subsidiary of KPMG Canada, LLP. He has over 30 years experience in information technology with more than 20 years focusing on solutions for public sector IT. Mr. Brewin is a practising application architect who has given numerous presentations on how technologies like cloud computing, service oriented architecture and business intelligence can be pragmatically harnessed to allow public sector organizations deliver better services in a cost effective, manageable way.
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Maurice O’Callaghan is one of Canada’s finest and most popular professional speakers. He is a change master who understands how people learn and what motivates individuals and organizations to make important, significant improvements.
A senior manager for three decades with one of Canada’s most successful corporations, Maurice O’Callaghan has extensive experience in the fields of customer service, marketing, communications, public relations and human development. He provides practical, unforgettable approaches to managing change, being the best we can be and building teams. Maurice is listed in Who’s Who in Professional Speaking, and has been featured in various media. He also played professional football with the Toronto Argonauts Football Club.
Timeless values, unforgettable experiences and humour are skillfully integrated into every presentation. Through his exceptional delivery and powerful insights, audiences learn practical and proven approaches to enriching their lives as individuals and as critical members of the organizations that depend on them. Audiences across North America have discovered that hearing Maurice O’Callaghan is a unique, inspiring and life-changing experience.
Barbara Kieley is Ernst & Young's leader of its Canadian Public Sector Technology Advisory practice. As an E&Y partner, Ms. Kieley advises senior government executives on strategic and operational transformation initiatives. She has considerable experience in the areas of service transformation, expenditure review and process optimization, strategic planning, public service renewal, large-scale system implementation, strategic partnerships, grants and contributions reforms and the use of enabling technologies. In the past, as Senior Assistant Secretary reporting to the Secretary of the Treasury Board, she developed future strategies for government’s service delivery renewal agenda.
Kristen Tisdale, PARTNER, ADVISORY SERVICES LEADER, ERNST AND YOUNG
Kirsten Tisdale leads Ernst & Young’s Advisory Practice for British Columbia, bringing over 20 years of experience advising a global network of clients across all key industries. She has held executive roles in international trade, Industry Canada, the Province of British Columbia, transformational consulting, P3 and capital project development, and executive search and leadership development. Kirsten brings deep public sector experience, having previously reported to the Premier’s Office, and then to the Ministry of Labour and Citizens’ Services with responsibilities for transformation of BC Public Sector. This included developing and driving over $2 billion complex alternative service delivery projects ($550 million in savings over 10 years) involving both public and private sector partners. She has deep experience designing and implementing alternative service delivery models and providing executive coaching to senior executives from both the private and public sectors. She is currently serving as an expert advisor to the federal Privy Council Office on their technology and back-office transformation (Administrative Services Review) initiative. Also, she has recently served as an expert advisor on the future of Strategic Partnerships and ASD for the BC Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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Corinne Charette was appointed to the position of Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada, effective May 4, 2009.
Ms. Charette comes to Treasury Board Secretariat from Transat A.T. Inc. where she was Vice-President and Chief Information Officer since May 2006. Previously, Ms. Charette was Deputy Director and Chief Information Officer of FINTRAC. During her 30+ year professional career, she served as Senior Vice-President, Internet Channel, for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, has been a Partner with KPMG Consulting leading their e-Business practice and has worked for IBM Global Services and Via Rail Canada.
Ms. Charette holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Concordia University and is a Professional Engineer. On June 21, 2011, Corinne received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Concordia University, in recognition of her distinguished career and achievements.
Chief Information Officer Branch (CIOB)
As the Chief Information Officer for the Government of Canada, Ms. Charette’s sector is responsible for policy development, enablement, management oversight, and leading community development and capacity building initiatives in information management, information technology, identity management and security, and access to information and privacy, in support of TBS’s Management Excellence agenda. CIOB provides strategic direction and leadership to federal departments and agencies for the government-wide pursuit of excellence in these policy domains and actively collaborates with other Canadian and international jurisdictions on the development of best practices and on cross-jurisdictional initiatives. In light of the work of the Administrative Services Review announced in Budget 2010, the divisions within the Service Sector dedicated to advancing the Government-wide Service Policy for internal and external services were transferred to CIOB as a division under the Chief Information Officer.
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Kevin Dowd is an economist and formerly professor of financial risk management at Nottingham University Business School. He is a graduate of the Universities of Sheffield (BA, PhD) and Western Ontario (MA). He has current or past affiliations with the Cato Institute (Washington), the Cobden Centre, the Independent Institute (Oakland, CA), the Institute of Economic Affairs (London), the Istituto Bruno Leoni (Milan), the Libertarian Alliance (London) and the Pensions Institute (London). His research interests cover monetary, financial and macroeconomics, free banking, central banking and financial regulation, financial risk management, longevity and pensions, political economy and the current financial crisis. Kevin has published widely in academic and practitioner journals and is the author of a number of books, including Competition and Finance: A New Interpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics (Palgrave, 1996), Measuring Market Risk (Wiley, 2nd edition 2005) and, most recently, with Martin Hutchinson, Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System (Wiley, 2010).
Peter DeVries, MA ECONOMICS (1970 MCMASTER UNIVERSITY), FORMER DIRECTOR, FISCAL POLICY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
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John Hodgins is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and obtained his CA designation with the Ottawa office of Ernst and Young in 1972. He joined the Office of the Comptroller General of Canada in 1980 and was the Director of Government Accounting Policy until he left in 1993. During that time, John attended the National Defence College and graduated in 1991.
In 1993, John joined the Office of the Auditor General of Canada and his prime responsibility was the audit of the financial statements of the Government of Canada. In 2003, he joined the Fiscal Policy Division of the Department of Finance, helping to introduce accrual accounting into the budget process. John finished his public service career as a Special Advisor to the Treasury Board Assistant Secretary responsible for government pensions and benefits. John retired from the public service in 2006.
During his career, John had a strong involvement with the Public Sector Accounting Board of the CICA, and with the FMI.
Robert (Bob) Correll
Bob Correll is a consultant to the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB). In this role, he conducts research, prepares discussion papers for task force meetings, proposals for public comment and summarizes comments received for deliberation by PSAB. He is also a frequent speaker on projects, new standards and their implementation. In June 2011, he completed work on the financial instruments and foreign currency translation standards.
Prior to joining the PSAB, Bob was a PSAB board member for three years and an audit partner of a national accounting firm for fifteen years. In this capacity, he acted as the lead engagement partner on a wide variety of public sector entities. As an advisor he has assisted organizations implementing public sector accounting standards, accounting for public-private partnerships and in establishing appropriate internal control frameworks.
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Rob Stewart was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the International Trade and Finance Branch on August 3, 2010. He has been a public servant in the Department of Finance since 1993, starting in the International Trade and Finance Branch, and then holding a number of positions in the Financial Sector Policy Branch. Before joining the Department of Finance, Rob worked at Export Development Canada and in the Canadian sport system. He holds a BA from Carleton University (1981) and an MBA from the University of Ottawa (1987).
Mr. Stewart was also a member of a Task Force of the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), which was mandated to revise the accounting standards for Financial Instruments recently issued for the public sector in Canada.
Ken Wheat, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF EXPENDITURE OPERATIONS AND ESTIMATES DIVISION, TREASURY BOARD OF CANADA SECRETARIAT
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Joël Barette, CA, DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ACCOUNTING DIVISION, CANADA REVENUE AGENCY
Joël Barrette is the Director of the Financial Reporting and Accounting Division at the Canada Revenue Agency. He began his public service career with the Office of the Auditor General as an Audit Professional in 2002. He later transferred to CORCAN, a revolving fund of the Correctional Service of Canada, where he assumed the responsibilities of Manager, Internal Controls and Financial Reporting. Mr. Barette joined the Canada Revenue Agency in September 2005.
Before joining the Public Service, Mr. Barette worked with the Deloitte and Touche accounting firm in their Ottawa office in the field of audit and business advisory services. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the University of Ottawa and a Chartered Accountant designation.
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Line Provencher, MBA, Senior Director, is an experienced manager in organizational transformation and performance optimization. She is in charge of the Lean Six Sigma Practice and optimization team of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton’s Strategy and Performance Consulting Group. She holds a certificate in Operations and Production Management from HEC Montréal, a Masters of Business Administration from UQAM and from Université Paris Dauphine, France, and is Black Belt Lean Six Sigma certified.
Ms. Provencher has acquired a solid expertise in the implementation of continuous improvement programs where in-depth and lasting changes have had a significant impact on organizational performance. These projects made it possible to develop a sustainable "performance culture" in those organizations where they were carried out.
Ms. Provencher acts as a Lean Six Sigma expert as well as a strategic advisor and project manager. Her experience in the implementation of numerous Lean Six Sigma projects gave her the opportunity to develop the intervention methodology.
She has over 20 years of experience in Kaizen workshop training and facilitation, as a lecturer, and in the development of continuous improvement programs.
She is an evaluator for Les Grands Prix québécois de la qualité and a member of the board of directors of the Mouvement québécois de la qualité.
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David Mascolo, Jr. Eng., is a Director in the Strategy and Performance Consulting Group. He has a double diploma from École Polytechnique de Montréal/ENSAE in Aeronautical Engineering and a DCS in Business Engineering. He has nine years of experience in performance optimization and Lean Management implementation. He is a junior member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec.
Mr. Mascolo has managed teams of engineers and professionals in several reorganization and process optimization projects for Canadian entities in the manufacturing, aeronautics, transportation and services sectors. He has coached over 170 managers in using the best practices of daily management to improve productivity by 20%-30%.
He is a Green Belt Lean Six Sigma and a Lean Expert and he is currently undergoing training to become Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified.
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François Vanier, CMA, MBA, is a Senior Consultant with the Strategy and Performance Consulting Group. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from HEC Montréal, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, and is a member of the Order des comptables en management accrédités du Québec. François has more than 10 years of experience in optimization, finance and budget management, IT system implementation and strategic cost management.
Mr. Vanier has been involved in the review of financial and operational processes for both public and private organizations. He is a Green Belt Lean Six Sigma and a Lean Expert and is currently undergoing training to become Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified.
Richard Tordjaman, SENIOR CONSULTANT, RAYMOND CHABOT GRANT THORNTON
Richard Tordjaman is a Principal Advisor in the Strategy and Performance
Consulting Group at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton with over 10 years of
experiences in operations management, process and continuous
improvement. He is a Green Belt Lean Six Sigma and a Lean Expert and he
is currently undergoing training to become Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
certified.
Mr.
Tordjaman has held many positions in the field of business process
improvements as a major player of the implementation of the BPM
Expertise Center (Business Process Management). In addition, he has
built and conducted some training on Lean-Kaïzen approach for the back
office operations managers and subject matter expert into a well-known
financial organization. He managed and was directly involved in various
process improvement projects as a principal enabler in order to
contribute to the deep organizational transformation of the operations.
He changed the traditional approach to a value added approach through
the implementation of the Kaïzen-Teïan system concepts with different
optimization tools allowing the development of creativity and innovation
among employees generating many productivity improvements.
Since 2007, he has developed and implemented projects in the field of
the business process improvement for the financial operational services.
He has defined and implemented strategies and guided work teams through
all phases within the organization. Accordingly, he has permitted to
his pairs to achieve results as much as 40% of productivities gain,
quality improvement, reduction of delays and costs.
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Kevin Page was appointed Canada's first Parliamentary Budget Officer on March 25, 2008. The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is an independent officer of the Library of Parliament who reports to the Speakers of both chambers and who is responsible for providing independent analysis to the Senate and to the House of Commons about trends in the national economy, the state of nation's finances and the estimates of the government.
Mr. Page has 27 years of experience in the federal public service. Many of the years were in the central agencies -- Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office and the Treasury Board Secretariat -- where he held positions responsible for the provision of advice and analysis on economic, fiscal and expenditure management issues. Mr. Page has also held different positions in other departments including Human Resources and Social Development Canada, Agriculture and Agri-foods Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Mr. Page was born in Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ontario in 1957. He has a Master of Arts in Economics (1982) from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is married and the father of three children.
Yves Vaillancourt, CHIEF AUDIT EXECUTIVE, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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Graham Barr joined the new Shared Services Canada department on September 7, 2011, as the Director General responsible for Strategic Planning and Transition Coordination. Previously, Graham was the Chief Audit and Evaluation Executive at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and, before that, a Director General in the Human Resources Branch of the same department. Since joining the federal public service in 1996, Graham has held various policy, program and corporate positions, including at the Privy Council Office and Canadian Heritage. Graham's Graduate Degree is a Master of Library and Information Studies from McGill University.
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Jim Lahey was named in June 2009 as Visiting Research Professor at the University of Ottawa, and Director of the Centre on Public Management and Policy. Mr. Lahey is Chair of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Departmental Audit Committee, and a member of the National Statistics Council.
Mr. Lahey has a BA (Honours) in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto (1972), and an MA in Canadian History from the University of Ottawa (1975).
From 1973 until early 2009, he served in the federal public service. Over the last ten years, he served successively as Associate Deputy Minister in Human Resources Development Canada, Associate Secretary in the Treasury Board Secretariat, Associate Deputy Minister in Indian and Northern Affairs, and Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Public Service Renewal) in the Privy Council Office.
In June 2009 also, Mr. Lahey qualified for the designation ICD.D of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Mark Huard, CGA, DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL BUSINESS PROCESSES AND RENEWAL, OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF CANADA
Mark Huard graduated from the Laval University (Québec City, Canada) in 1981 and is a Certified General Accountant (CGA) of Canada. Mark has more than 30 years of services in the Canadian Federal Government and has held many positions, in multiple departments and agencies. He currently holds the position of Director, Financial Business Processes and Renewal at the Office of the Comptroller General of Canada. Mark has also devoted many years of voluntary work with the Financial Management Institute of Canada and was the National President for 2007-2008.
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Ron McBride is a Certified General Accountant, a Project Management Professional and the current Program Chair of the Government Special Interest Group for America’s SAP user group. He has worked in the Canadian Federal Government for over 20 years, gaining experience in 7 different government departments within financial management including: taxation, accounting operations, financial policy and financial systems.
Mr. McBride is currently in the role of Senior Policy Analyst for the Financial System Authority, which is a branch of the Office of the Comptroller General of Canada.
In this capacity he is the Project Director for the Financial Management Systems Configuration Initiative (one of the key components in the FM transformation in the Government of Canada), the Project Manager for the Manage Travel component of the Common Financial Management Business Processes Initiative, and last, is also responsible for the development and implementation of a Project Management Office for the Financial System Authority organization.
Gerry Matthews, BCOMM, CMA, DIRECTOR, COSTING AND IT ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, SHARED SERVICES CANADA
Gerry Matthews has over 30 years experience in the finance community and was recently appointed to the position of Director, Costing and IT Economic Analysis for the newly formed Shared Services Canada organization.
For most of his professional career, he has concentrated on financial systems and treasury management. In his position as a management consultant with Consulting and Audit Canada and Government Consulting Services for 14 years, his knowledge of government finances was broadened and reinforced.
Mr. Matthews managed both the IFMS (SAP) and FreeBalance program offices, and participated in the Corporate Administrative Shared Services initiative for the Office of the Comptroller General. He also led the Vendor Master component of the Common Enterprise Data Initiative and the Manage Vendor Master Data File component of the Common Financial Management Business Processes project for the OCG.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University and has been a CMA since 1984. Not content with relaxing in front of the television each evening, Mr. Matthews is a member of the Kanata Writers Group, and is working on a novel, as well as a collection of short stories.
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Natalie Hétu holds a Bachelor in Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Ottawa (1994) and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) of Canada. She joined the Financial System Authority in 2008 to lead several projects within the Common Financial Management Business Process Initiative (FM-BP), including Manage Procure to Payment, Manage Other Payments and others. Previously, she obtained a mix of experience as a business analyst in process design, software development and implementation, both as a public servant and as a consultant. Before plugging into the world of systems, Natalie was an audit trainee with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.
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Nadir Patel serves as the Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Finance and Operations and Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He has just returned from an appointment as Canada’s Consul General in Shanghai, promoting trade and investment between Canada and China, leading Canada’s participation in Expo 2010, and managing the incoming visits of countless high-level government and business delegations including the Prime Minister and Governor General.
Prior to that, Mr. Patel held a series of high-level government positions, including Chief of Staff to the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, where he helped write Canada’s first national security policy. He also served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Clerk of the Privy Council, where he helped launch the Commission of Inquiry into the bombing of Air India Flight 182. He subsequently became Canada’s Chief Air Negotiator, travelling to 35 countries over three years and negotiating an unprecedented 43 inter-governmental Canadian airspace pacts, including a groundbreaking open-skies agreement with all 27 countries of the European Union.
He began his career as an auditor at the Kitchener-Waterloo offices of Revenue Canada, and subsequently served in progressively senior positions in the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency’s offices in Montreal and Ottawa, including Senior Departmental Assistant to the Minister of National Revenue, Director of Ministerial Services, and Corporate Secretary to the Agency’s Board of Management.
Mr. Patel has previously served as Vice President, Treasurer and a Board Member of the Association of Professional Executives of the Federal Public Service, the association which represents Canada’s 7,000 public service executives. He has also served as a Director on the National Capital Region’s Board of Directors for the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, and as Interim Chair of the Ottawa Business Council of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce. While in China, he served as Honorary President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, and co-founded the Chamber’s Network of Young Canadian Professionals in Shanghai.
He was appointed by India Abroad to its inaugural (2008) list of the Top 40 most influential Canadians of Indian descent. On January 1, 2011, Mr. Patel was profiled by the Globe and Mail as one of 45 Canadians Changing the World. He has been selected as one of 100 Alumni of Achievement during Wilfrid Laurier University’s 100th year anniversary celebration in 2011. He has been a guest lecturer at Dalhousie University’s School of Public Administration, at New York University’s Shanghai campus at East China Normal University, and at Donghua University’s School of International Affairs.
Mr. Patel has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from New York University’s Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the HEC Paris School of Management.
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In addition to the Federal Government, Mr. Kharé has had considerable experience with the Provinces of BC and Ontario. His last position with the province of BC was the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for the Immigration and Aboriginal Department. In this portfolio he was responsible for making several policy changes and developing strategic alliances in British Columbia that will benefit the immigrant community for a long time to come.
He has previously served as Deputy Commissioner for the Oil and Gas Commission of British Columbia. The Commission is responsible for all aspects of oil and gas regulation for the Province.
Previous to his appointment at the Oil and Gas Commission, Mr. Kharé was the Director of the Water Management Branch, British Columbia. He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and has 35 years experience in private and public sector in several provinces. He has served on the Registration Committee for the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia.
Mr. Kharé also served as the Treasurer (volunteer position) of the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) overseeing an annual budget of $20 million. He is the first and only Canadian to be given this honour in the 81 year history of the organization. The Water Environment Federation is the largest international organisation of water quality professionals with head quarters in Washington DC and member associations throughout the globe. During this tenure he developed several connections between India and the U.S.
Mr. Kharé is the winner of several national and international awards including the prestigious Bidel Award and Emerson Medal given for exemplary service in the field of water quality and, a meritorious service award from the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia for his services in the Environmental Engineering field.
Mr. Kharé immigrated to Canada from India, and has lived and worked in several cities across the country. He is widely respected for his skill in strategic planning, public policy, organisational development and resource management. He is married to Chitra and they live in Vancouver with their two children.
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In 1991, Ms. Fillion received a bachelor's degree in accounting from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and today is a chartered accountant. She started her professional career in the public service with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada where she was assigned to various audit assignments such as the Government of the Yukon, the department of Public Works and Government Services, as well as councils and national museums.
In 1993, following the audit of the department of Employment and Immigration and the Employment Insurance (EI) Account to which she was assigned; Ms. Fillion accepted a position with the Department. She first joined the EI Accounting team and then occupied other financial analyst positions with the Policy and Systems and Accounting Operations directorates.
The implementation of the Financial Information Strategy was one of Ms. Fillion's biggest challenges. She was also the first person appointed to the Chief Accountant position and since, she has continuously taken on new challenges by occupying strategic positions within the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Branch, within HRSDC. Indeed, Ms. Fillion was the Director of Corporate Accounting for three years before accepting the position of Director General of Corporate Accounting and Accountability. She was pleased to accept this new challenge within the Service Canada organization, to help define the new role of the CFO and be a key player in the changes happening in the Department and in the public service as a whole.
Manon joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in December 2008 as the Director General, Corporate Accounting, Policy and Financial Systems. She is still occupying this position and her passion for this Department continues to grow. One of the enormous challenges she faces is to provide Financial support in over 110 countries.
Robert Hertzog, CA, DIRECTOR GENERAL, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT BRANCH, HERITAGE CANADA
Bob Hertzog joined the Department of Canadian Heritage in August 2007 as the Director General of the Financial Management Branch. He has brought extensive financial management, audit, strategic planning, business development and operations background to his position at Canadian Heritage.
Prior to joining the federal government, Mr. Hertzog held various senior positions in both the public and private sectors within Canada, U.S. and abroad. These include Chief Corporate Planning and Performance Reporting Officer with the City of Ottawa, Chief Business Transformation Officer and Vice-President of Internal Audit at CBC and Assistant Vice President of Operations and SFO for Mitel’s Semiconductor business.
Mr. Hertzog has a Bachelor of Commerce and Diploma of Public Accountancy from McGill University and is a graduate of the Niagara Institute Leadership Development Program and the Queen's Public Executive program. In addition, Bob is a member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and the Ordre des Comptables Agréés du Québec.
Denise Amyot, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE CANADA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUMS CORPORATION
Denise
Amyot is currently, President and CEO of the Canada Science and
Technology Museums Corporation whose mandate is to foster scientific and
technological literacy throughout the country. The Corporation and its
three museums – the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Canada Aviation and
Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum – tell the
stories of Canadian ingenuity and achievement in science and technology
and demonstrate how these accomplishments have contributed to the
building of our country.
Denise Amyot was most recently the Senior Vice President of the
Leadership and Talent Management Sector at the Canada Public Service
Agency. In this position, Ms Amyot was responsible for leading and
managing leadership development programs, and developing policies for
employees and executives throughout the public Service of Canada.
She has worked both in National Headquarters and in regions in several
federal departments including Human Resources Development Canada,
National Defense, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Heritage and the
Public Service Commission. In her former two roles as Assistant Deputy
Minister, she was respectively responsible for the corporate management
services as well as public affairs and ministerial services. She has
worked extensively in policy and line operations in the context of
programs and service delivery, in social, economic, and cultural areas.
She also worked for few years with the Government of the Northwest
Territories.
Ms Amyot is the President of the Institute of Public Administration of
Canada, Vice-President of the Head of Federal Agencies Steering
Committee, member of the Board of Governors at the Ottawa University,
member of the Board of Governors at the Algonquin College and member of
the Editorial Board of the Canadian Government Executive magazine. She
is the former President of the Association of Professional Executives of
the Public Service of Canada and former President of the Communications
Community Office.
Ms Amyot has obtained a Master's degree in Education and three Bachelor
degrees in Biology, in Arts and in Education. Dedicated to a strong
values-based leadership in the Public Service, Denise is also passionate
about sailing, cross-country skiing and networking.
Dr. Sue Johnson, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, DIRECTOR, OTTAWA COUPLE AND FAMILY INSTITUTE
Sue Johnson is a clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, author, popular presenter and speaker and one of the leading innovators in the field of couple therapy. She presents and writes on attachment and bonding, the science of love, interventions to repair relationships, trauma couples and forgiveness.
Sue holds professorships at the University of Ottawa in Canada and at Alliant University in San Diego, California. She is one of the originators and the main proponent of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), a powerful, tested intervention to help couples repair rifts and build strong loving bonds. She is also the Director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICCEEFT) which has ten affiliated Centers in North America and Europe.
Sue received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1984. Her professional books are considered to be among the leading texts on couples therapy and she serves on the board of many professional journals. Her 2008 book - Hold Me Tight , Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, written for the general public, outlines her last 25 years of research and the new science of adult bonding. This book is the basis for a program for post-deployment military couples created for the U.S. military and a relationship education program, Hold Me Tight: Conversations for Connection.
She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Research in Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She is an invited Fellow of the American Psychological Association and her work has been noted and elaborated upon in publications such as The New York Times ( an article on her program for the US military), the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Globe and Mail, More and Psychology Today magazines. Sue has an active media presence. For example, her favorite radio interview to date was her conversation about love on CBC’s Ideas in November, 2009. Her favorite TV spot is on the CBC talk show Stephen and Chris. She blogs on http://www.holdmetight.com and http://www.psychologytoday.com/. Video clips of Sue presenting her work are also shown on the holdmetight.com website.
Sue’s passions are her family, her work, and Argentinian Tango.
Juliet S. Woodfield, CA, SENIOR DIRECTOR TRANSFORMATION MANAGEMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SECTOR, OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL, TREASURY BOARD OF CANADA, SECRETARIAT
Juliet has held various financial controllership roles including the Deputy Financial Officer of the NATO Security Investment Program in Brussels, Belgium; Director of Finance for a mid-size hospital in Cold Lake, Alberta; and Controller for an oil and gas company in Calgary.
Juliet grew up in Calgary, Alberta and obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary and her Chartered Accountant designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta. She very much enjoys living in the NCR with her family.
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Pierre Viau is a
senior consultant with over 30 years of expertise in facilitation,
organizational performance management issues, and leadership coaching
with public and private sector organizations, both nationally and
internationally. Holding a graduate degree in English literature with
complementing undergraduate studies in behavioral and developmental
psychology, he is the author of Total Quality MindShare, an interactive
process that enables an organization to successfully align its vision,
human resources, program delivery, and manage change to meet its
client/stakeholder needs and expectations. His post-graduate studies
include interpersonal management skills, facilitation process and
techniques, appreciative inquiry, and emotional intelligence (EQ)
assessment and development.
An accomplished facilitator and organizational leadership coach, his
expertise includes working with both large and small groups in designing
and leading visioning, strategic planning, change management, risk
management, scenario planning, organizational readiness and impact
assessments, business case development, operational and core competency
development, business transformation, organizational re-engineering,
supply chain, stakeholder and outreach consultation, customer
relationship management, individual, group and 360 emotional
intelligence (EQ) administration and evaluation.
The combination of his leadership coaching, communication and
facilitation skills, which are founded on years of expertise and
industry best practices, have helped him successfully engage clients in
embracing change, and strive to become high performing organizations.
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Mrs Sauvé-McCuan attended the University of Ottawa & followed her university degree with a Chartered Accountant designation. She recently completed a Queens’ University Masters of Public Administration degree.
Kevin Radford, VICE PRESIDENT, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT THE CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY (CFIA)
He has extensive experience in project management, information management and strategic planning through various positions held with the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Forces (CF).
Mr. Radford holds a bachelor of engineering degree from the Royal Military College of Canada and a masters degree in business administration from the Schulich School of Business. An aerospace engineer, he retired in 2003 from the Canadian Air Force.
Liseanne Forand was appointed President of Shared Services Canada on August 4, 2011. Prior to this appointment, Liseanne served as Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Chief Operating Officer for Service Canada (October 2009-August 2011) and as Associate Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (January 2008-October 2009).
Ms. Forand began her career in the Public Service of Canada in 1986, at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, where she served until 1993. During that time, she also represented the Department on the interdepartmental team charged with the arbitration of the Canada-France maritime boundary.
She took a leave of absence from the Public Service in 1993 to become the first Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Prawn Producers. In 1994, she was appointed Director General of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, based in Winnipeg. She returned to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in 1998 as Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy. In 2001 she joined Communication Canada as Assistant Executive Director, Communications Program and Services and in 2003 she was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Northern Affairs, at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Between 2006 and 2008, she served as Assistant Secretary to Cabinet, Social Development Policy at the Privy Council Office.
Ms. Forand holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English (Honours) from Concordia University in Montreal, where she also completed the course work towards a Master of Arts degree.
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Douglas Nevison, DIRECTOR, FISCAL POLICY DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE CANADA
Douglas Nevison is Director of the Fiscal Policy Division of the Department of Finance Canada, which is responsible for providing analysis and advice on the Government of Canada’s fiscal position, and plays a key role in coordinating and preparing the annual federal budget. Prior to this, he served in a number of positions in the International Trade and Finance Branch of the department, including as Director of the International Policy and Analysis Division and Senior Chief in the International Finance and Development Division. Doug has represented the department in London, England, as Counsellor (Finance) at the Canadian High Commission, and, before joining the department in 1996, he held economic research positions at the Conference Board of Canada and the London School of Economics.
Ian Bennett, ASSOCIATE DEPUTY MINISTER, REAL PROPERTY BRANCH, PUBLIC WORKS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES CANADA
As the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Real Property Branch, Ian Bennett provides strategic and corporate support to the Assistant Deputy Minister in the management and operations of the Branch. He plays a national functional leadership role for the Real Property business line and offers executive leadership on a wide range of branch priorities.
As the Associate Assistant Deputy
Minister of the Real Property Branch, Ian Bennett provides strategic and
corporate support to the Assistant Deputy Minister in the management and
operations of the Branch. He plays a national functional leadership role for
the Real Property business line and offers executive leadership on a wide range
of branch priorities.
Mr. Bennett is a seasoned
executive who has a broad range of experience in operations, program delivery,
client service, policy development, strategic planning, as well as information
and financial management. He first joined PWGSC in 1987 from Employment and
Immigration Canada where he worked in finance, administration and facilities
management. Over the course of his career with PWGSC, Mr. Bennett has held a
number of senior-level positions, including Acting Assistant Deputy Minister,
Acquisitions; Director General, Priorities, Strategies and Risk Management; and
Director General, PWGSC Client Service Unit. Within the Real Property Branch,
Ian has held various positions at the Director General level including
Portfolio Planning and Management, Strategic Management and the Business
Information Task Force.
In March 2007, Mr. Bennett left
the public service to work for St. John’s Ambulance, initially as Chief
Operating Officer and then CEO of the national office in February 2008. Mr.
Bennett returned to PWGSC in November 2009 where he was the Executive Director
for Strategic Review. He held this
position until December 2010 before taking on his current role as Associate
Assistant Deputy Minister, Real Property Branch in January 2011.
Mr. Bennett holds a bachelor of
arts degree in History from the University of Waterloo as well as a masters
degree in Public Administration from Carleton University.
Alex Lakroni, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, PUBLIC WORKS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES CANADA
Alex has worked in the federal public service for approximately 20 years and has gained vast experience in finance, strategic planning, and program review. He has held various executive positions in several departments and has Central Agency experience. Over his career, he has led several strategic files and major negotiations. He has led the departmental Strategic Review exercise and is now leading the Strategic and Operational Review exercise, both of which will be instrumental in shaping the future of PWGSC on all fronts.
Also in 2008, Alex worked at the TD Bank in Toronto as Executive Associate CFO where he led several key files including Renewal of Capital management framework of TD Canada Trust and participated in structuring major investment banking deals.
Since his appointment as PWGSC Chief Financial Officer, his focus has been on modernizing the CFO function, building capacity and strengthening financial management in PWGSC, which is critical in today’s fiscal environment.
Alex is a Certified General Accountant (CGA) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration as well as a Master’s Degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Montreal.
Louise Levonian, ASSOCIATE DEPUTY MINISTER, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
She has been working at the Department of Finance since September of 1995 with two intervals outside the Department: most recently at the Privy Council Office of the Government of Canada as the Director of Operations (Planning); and, working for KPMG – Barents Group as a tax consultant. Ms. Levonian has also held positions at the Treasury Board Secretariat conducting analytical studies related to expenditure management and the Department of Transportation conducting economic analysis of transportation projects.
Ms. Levonian graduated from Queen’s University in 1990 with a Master of Arts in Economics, majoring in Public Finance and Industrial Organization. Ms. Levonian also obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with High Honours at Carleton University.
Pierre Bruneau is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. He is the long-time anchor of the weekday edition of Le TVA midi, Le TVA 17 heures and Le TVA 18 heures news bulletins which air on the Québec television network TVA every weekday.
After doing studies in psychology at the University of Québec, Pierre Bruneau started his media career on various radio stations as a host and reporter. At age 23, he became a news anchor for Télé-Metropole (which later became TVA). He was also the host of other shows such as Qu'en pense le Quebec and Y'a du soleil. Through the years, he has succeeded in obtaining a incredible credibility with all Quebecers.
Besides his achievement in the communication world, Pierre is well known in Québec for all his numerous volunteer activities and his fight against cancer and more specifically for kids with leukemia. In 1988, his son Charles died of leukemia and he created The Fondation Charles-Bruneau.
In 2006, Bruneau celebrated his 30 years of work for TVA and received several awards.
In January 2007, he ascended the Kilimanjaro with his spouse. The funds raised were given to the Foundation of Charles Bruneau in memory of his deceased son.
He is one of the most recognized news anchors in Québec.
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Michel Blanchette is professor in the Accounting Department at Université du Québec en Outaouais (a French-speaking university located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada). He teaches advanced accounting and financial analysis to accounting and MBA students. His research interests on accounting topics in the international context deal with financial instruments, derivatives, hedging, consolidation and currency translation. He is Fellow Certified Management Accountant (FCMA) and Chartered Accountant (CA).
Professeur Blanchette began his career at Clarkson Gordon (Ernst & Young) in the field of auditing where he worked on various mandates with insurance companies and small and medium-sized entities. He taught three years at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada) where he conducted his first research on derivatives, particularly interest rate swaps, from which he produced several publications. His research interests have evolved towards financial instruments and hedging in the past decade and, more recently, towards the International financial reporting standards (IFRS). Since he joined Université du Québec en Outaouais, he developed several programs with colleagues, the latest being the well-known CMA Executive Program, providing both a MBA and a CMA designation to its graduates.
The expertise of Pr Blanchette in financial analysis relies on the combination of his knowledge in accounting and finance. Among his professional activities, he provides training on this subject at university and for organizations such as Export Development Canada. He was invited by foreign universities in Australia (Australian National University, 1996) and China (Hangzhou University of Commerce, 1998; Zhejiang Gongshang University, 2009).
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Brigitte Fortin is the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Accounting, Banking and Compensation Branch (ABC), at Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC).
Ms. Fortin is leading the Transformation of Government of Canada Pay and Pension administration including the modernization of the 40-year-old Government of Canada pension and pay systems. In this role, she is the project leader for the management and delivery of five major projects:
- the Government of Canada Pension Modernization Project, the Centralization of Pension Services Delivery Project, the migration of the RCMP Superannuation Act operations (services to
- members only) from RCMP to PWGSC,
- the Pay Modernization Project, and
- the consolidation of pay administration services into a new Center of Expertise.
Prior to joining PWGSC, Ms. Fortin worked at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Transport Canada, where she participated in the development and implementation of policies and programs related to the renewal of HR and compensation, and the development and maintenance of electronic HR management systems.
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Renée Jolicoeur is responsible for managing the operations of the Federal Treasury, including issuing Receiver General payments for government programs, banking and cash management, as well as maintaining the Accounts of Canada and producing the Government's financial statements. She is also responsible for the management and delivery of the administration of the public service pay and pension and maintains accounts for the various pension funds.
In January 2000, Mrs. Jolicoeur was appointed Director General of Compensation Sector, ABC. During that time, Mrs. Jolicoeur was responsible for the overall management of compensation activities including pay and pension administration for the Public Service employees, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police members, Judges and Members of Parliament including the Transformation of the Pay and Pension administration initiatives.
Mrs. Jolicoeur oversees a number of major projects that focus on revamping the common compensation systems and adding new web-based self service delivery methods for public service employees and pensioners.
Mrs. Jolicoeur spent her first eight years in the federal public service as a Staffing and Human Resources Planning Officer with a number of departments. She held progressively more responsible positions in different disciplines, from coordinator of a major staffing program at the Public Service Commission to Chief, Departmental Planning and Programming at the Canadian Transport Commission, Senior Audit Officer with Consumer and Corporate Affairs and Director, Internal Audit in Transport Canada and later in National Defence. Before joining PWGSC, she was Director, Account Processing, Military Pay and Pension at National Defence for four years.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector
David Enns was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector at the Treasury Board Secretariat on March 22, 2010.
Mr. Enns first joined the Treasury Board Secretariat in 2006 and was Senior Director and Executive Director for Environment, Transport and Infrastructure in the Economic Sector until his appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary in 2010. Prior to that, he held executive positions at the Office of Infrastructure Canada and at the Department of Canadian Heritage. He also worked at the National Archives of Canada and the Atomic Energy Control Board (now the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission).
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Winnipeg and Master of Arts degree from Dalhousie University.
Expenditure Management Sector (EMS)
As the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Expenditure Management Sector, Mr. Enns’s sector provides a central focus for the functions that support and strengthen the Secretariat's role in the government's broader expenditure management system. The work of Sector covers the entire expenditure management cycle, from expenditure analysis, forecasting and expenditure management strategies, policies and operations through to results-based management, evaluation, Estimates production, accountability and reporting to Parliament. EMS plays a strong integration role in planning and coordinating the expenditure management initiatives and in providing a whole-of-government perspective on matters related to direct program spending management of reserves and compensation within the federal government.
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Jaime Tibbetts is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Health Canada. Prior to this position, he was the Director General, Devolution and Territorial Relations with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. His responsibilities included the design and implementation of the Government of Canada's new retail food subsidy Nutrition North Canada and furthering devolution of federal responsibilities in the North to territorial governance.
Mr. Tibbetts brings with him substantial and impressive financial and managerial experience. Over the course of his career, Mr. Tibbetts held the positions of Director General, Corporate Services for the Canada School of Public Service, where he was also the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Information Officer. In addition, he held a number of progressively more responsible positions within finance at Health Canada, including the Director of Finance for First Nations and Inuit Health, the Director General, Departmental Planning and Financial Administration and eventually the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Health Canada.
Prior to this, Mr. Tibbetts was part of the Career Assignment Program where he held a number of executive assignments at Treasury Board Secretariat and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. He also held several financial functions in headquarters and regional offices of Industry Canada, Correctional Services Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
Mr. Tibbetts holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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André Morency was born in Quebec City in April 1955. He holds an Honours B.A. in Sociology from Carleton University (1979).
Mr. Morency began his career in Transport Canada in August 1982 as a Senior Contracting Specialist and was appointed to the executive ranks as Director, Contracting Services in 1992. In 1993, he was named Project Director for the first phase of Transport Canada’s Wide Area Network and Project Director/Project Director General for Oracle Financial system implementation between 1993-1996. He was appointed Director General, Corporate Administration in June 1995 and Director General, Informatics and Administration in July 1996. In March 1999, he was appointed Director General, Finance and Administration.
In October 2001, he was appointed Regional Director General, Ontario Region where he remained until his appointment as ADM Corporate Services in September 2002. As Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Management and Crown Corporation Governance, Mr. Morency is responsible for ensuring the provision of effective support to the Department in the areas of Crown Corporation portfolio management and governance, Finance and Administration, Human Resources, Technology & Information Management Services and Integrated Planning and Reporting.
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Ms. Thérèse Roy joined NRCan in March 2008 as the Director General, Financial Management Branch. She is the professional and strategic advisor to senior management with respect to all related financial management activities.
Previously, she was the Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Planning at the Privy Council Office where she held that position a few years.
Ms. Roy occupied various positions at Canadian Heritage and she also spent some years at PWGSC where she held positions as financial officer and senior financial management advisor to various branches within the organization. She started her career in the private sector with Ernst and Young, Québec’s office where she worked as an auditor as well as a senior consultant in the management field.
Ms. Roy is a member of CA in the public services committee with the Ordre des CA du Quebec. She holds a bachelor in accounting sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke and is a Chartered Accountant. In her professional background, she worked as a consultant in the Department of Finance in Australia, she taught accounting at the Laval University, she delivered a series of conferences to private sector organizations and associations, she appeared in a series of business courses delivered by Laval University and broadcasted on television.
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Juliet Woodfield, CA has recently joined us from the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Canada. She brings many years of experience as a financial manager and auditor. Most recently, her roles and responsibilities at the OAG included the oversight of the financial audits of several federal government departments, agencies, and crown corporations. In addition, she has been a member of the Professional Practices Group at the OAG, having team lead responsibility for the transition of the OAG to the new Canadian Auditing Standards (CAS). She has participated in the community development of the over 500 financial and provincial legislative auditors across Canada by developing and providing training on the conversion to CAS and on the transition to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Juliet has held various financial controllership roles including the Deputy Financial Officer of the NATO Security Investment Program in Brussels, Belgium; Director of Finance for a mid-size hospital in Cold Lake, Alberta; and Controller for an oil and gas company in Calgary.
Juliet grew up in Calgary, Alberta and obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary and her Chartered Accountant designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta. She very much enjoys living in the NCR with her family.
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Bill Currie is a Vice Chair of Deloitte Canada, he is also Deloitte’s Managing Director for the Americas and sits on the Canadian Board of Directors. His primary practice area is competitive strategy in financial services, which includes organization transformation, brand strategy, competitive strategy, market entry strategy, organizational design and M&A strategy. Mr. Currie has extensive international experience having worked in over 20 countries on five continents including the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Iran, Hong Kong, Japan, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico. He is the author of a number of studies at Deloitte including The Future of Retail Banking, Globalization of Financial Services and, most recently, The Future of Productivity – An eight-step game plan for Canada, an in-depth study of the factors limiting Canadian productivity growth and the steps needed to reset the country’s productivity trajectory. He has been widely quoted in the Canadian and international media and is responsible for following the Canadian economy on behalf of his Deloitte partners.
Mr. Currie holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School at the University of Western Ontario.
Hall of Fame speaker Michael Kerr is one of Canada’s most in-demand speakers and one of North America’s leading experts on how to create truly inspiring workplaces and how to put humour to work for more success and less stress in the workplace. A recovering government manager, Mr. Kerr’s presentations have taken him from Iran to Honolulu and hundreds of fabulous places in between (such as Ottawa!).
Mr. Kerr appears frequently in the media talking about the topic of creating great workplaces. He is also the bestselling author of five books, including, “You CAN’T be Serious! Putting Humour to Work,” and “Inspiring Workplaces – Creating the Kind of Workplace Where Everyone Wants to Work.” His next book is called “The Way Work OUGHT to Be – Travels to Workplaces that ROCK!”
Mr. Kerr hails from spectacular, Canmore, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. Check him out at www.mikekerr.com and www.inspiringworkplaces.com.
Trying to detect her own “personal landmines,” and protecting herself from the self-destructive thoughts that have plagued her since childhood, pushed her to conduct extensive research on the human being and she discovered a passion for transformation. Her path had brought her to Peak Potential School in the United States where she discovered a life equation that changed her own life. She has pursued her studies at this well-known international institution and became a certified life transformation trainer.
The results are so spectacular in her own life that she has decided to use her knowledge in communication, animation, psychology and dramatization to change careers and become a conference speaker, so that she can reach the greatest number of people possible.
To complete her knowledge, she is training to become a Maître PNL. Her mission is to open doors that facilitate life changes; to help individuals discover their own strategy to cope with changes so that they become opportunities rather than obstacles; to get individuals to manage their thoughts effectively towards change by simplifying the objectives in order to make them consistent with the positive direction they want to give their lives.
Today she shares her knowledge everywhere and inspires everyone who wants to take action and find success in all areas of their life!
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Mme Ascoli is originally from Montreal. She moved to Ottawa in 2001 to work with the Canadian federal government following the completion of a Masters in Public Policy and Public Administration at Concordia University, Montreal. She has since taken on multiple roles and functions within the Secretariat of the Treasury Board – i.e., with the Centre of Excellence for Evaluation, in Program Sectors with responsibilities for Indian and Northern Affairs files, with the Improved Reporting to Parliament team with responsibilities for the coordination of and guidance on Departmental Performance Reports, with the Results-Based Management directorate with responsibilities for developing and implementing the Management, Resources and Results Structure Policy, and finally, with the Expenditure Management Sector. Her role in the latter sector entailed reviewing and reforming the Expenditure Management System, including the development and implementation of Strategic Reviews. In 2008, Mme Ascoli took a two-year educational leave of absence to undertake a PhD in Public Administration at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She is currently working on the Government’s Strategic and Operating Review and completing her thesis.
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Jinny Lamoureux has over 15 years experience as a Certified Management Accountant with the Public Service of Canada.
As an expert consultant, her role is very diverse with mandates that include financial advice, developing financial policies, develop and deliver training and carry out internal audits.
She worked for many departments and participated in various tasks related to the accounting cycle of the public service since the first discussions of the implementation of the Financial Information Strategy.
Jinny received her first college diploma in 1992 for her studies in business administration. She then earned a degree in accounting in 1998 from the Univresité du Québec in Outaouais and obtained her CMA certification in 2002. To fund her education, Jinny occupied various administrative positions during her studies, one being as an administrative assistant at the Canadian International Development Agency.
Jinny Lamoureux, gladly accepted to provide this information session for the administrative and clerical staff.
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Ross Roxburgh established his own consulting firm in 2001; in his professional practice, he has focused on executive coaching, strategic planning and facilitation support to a variety of leadership teams and governance groups in both the public and private sectors.
A large part of his practice involves working with professionals in complex organizations and boards. Mr. Roxburgh has been called on by clients to assist with sensitive personnel issues, where discretion and focus is required, as well as to help with clarifying strategic options and the organization design needed to support them.
Design and development of learning and development programs is a further area in which he is called upon to work with senior professionals. His style is participative and inclusive and he thrives on learning along with others. He is known for his energy, passion and commitment to professional development.
Mr. Roxburgh was with the Canadian operations of a global professional services firm for more than twenty years, fourteen of these as a Partner. During that time, he helped to build strong practice teams in the Ottawa and Toronto client markets. His clients have included major organizations in both the private and public sectors, across a variety of industries. He works in both English and French. Based in Toronto, his clients are across Canada and the U.S., in the Caribbean, Europe and Australia.
He has worked with leadership groups and individual leaders in such client organizations as the Government of Canada, the Ontario Public Service, a range of Agencies, Boards and Crown Corporations, various professional services organizations, both national and global, , Pro Bono Law Ontario, a variety of post-secondary institutions, the Ontario Securities Commission, SaskPower , DTT Australia and the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.
- Design, development and facilitation of a wide range of workshops with a focus on assisting professionals who are committed to their ongoing learning and development; this work spans a range of public and private organizations;
- Continuing work over more than a decade in facilitation of a range of leadership programs for the largest professional services firm in Canada;
- Various engagements in the special interest and not-for-profit sector, which required the alignment of governance groups, both at the Executive and Committee levels.
Mr. Roxburgh has been a keynote speaker and moderator at a number of professional conferences and provides volunteer time to not-for-profit boards as well as to a student-run consultancy at the Rotman School of Business. He is currently completing an article on Leadership Coaching and has submitted a perspective on coaching to a European management publication.
More information on his practice focus and an overview of some recent client engagements, are found on his website: http://www.rossroxburghconsulting.com.
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Mr. Lindsey was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer of National Defence in June 2009. In this capacity he serves as the strategic financial advisor to the Deputy Minister and the Defence Finance Committee. His group responsibilities include resource allocation, financial operations, and internal and public reporting among others.
Prior to joining National Defence, Kevin served from 2001 at Industry Canada in a number of senior executive positions including as Director General, Programs and Services Branch; Corporate Comptroller; acting Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications; and as Chief Financial Officer where he was instrumental in implementing the CFO model; leading the department to a state of audit readiness; and designing and implementing the department’s response to Canada’s Economic Action Plan.
From 1994 to 2001, Kevin served at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat in various economic portfolios, and in the Expenditure Management Sector as Director, Expenditure Operations.
Kevin is a graduate of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has completed the Canadian Securities Course, the Public Executive Program at Queen’s University, the Executive Development Program at the University of Western Ontario and, most recently, the Directors Education Program at the Rotman School, University of Toronto. He holds the CMA and ICD.D designations.
Kevin was born in Montreal, Quebec. He and his wife Robin live in Ottawa.
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Up until recently, Bruce was on assignment as a faculty member with the Canada School of the Public Service. Prior to that, Bruce was the CFO at both HRSDC and Canadian Heritage. In over 28 years since joining the federal public service through the FORD/IARD Program of the OCG, he has held many different positions in audit, administration and financial management in numerous other federal organizations such as DND, OSFI, NRCAN and PWGSC. Throughout his career, Bruce has maintained a strong interest in modernizing management practices and the strengthening of functional communities.
Bruce is married and has two children. When he is not working, he is an avid tool guy and home renovation maniac. In past lives, he has been a professional musician, actor, stand-up comic and gravedigger. He is certainly not your average accountant.
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Suzanne Morris was appointed CBC/Radio-Canada’s Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective April 2009.
In addition to being responsible for all aspects of financial management and corporate information technology for Canada’s national public broadcaster, Ms. Morris plays an instrumental role in helping to achieve a sustainable economic model for the future of the Corporation. As Vice-President and CFO for CBC/Radio-Canada, she also serves as Vice-Chair of the CBC Pension Board of Trustees.
Before becoming a member of CBC/Radio-Canada’s Senior Executive Team, Ms. Morris was Secretary/Treasurer to the CBC Pension Board of Trustees, where she was responsible for the CFO, IT, risk management, benefit administration and secretariat functions at the Pension Fund and managed operations through a period of financial market turmoil and credit crisis.
Prior to that, Ms. Morris was Vice-President, Small Business Financial Services, at Export Development Canada (EDC), where she ran the line of business serving small and mid-size companies across Canada through multiple delivery channels and was responsible for the oversight of operations and related strategy, business and product development, underwriting and stakeholder outreach functions.
She has also held senior positions in risk management and internal audit for EDC, as well as at Deloitte, where she provided audit and business advisory services to large corporate and public sector clients.
Ms. Morris earned her Bachelor of Commerce degree with Honours from the University of Ottawa in 1986 and holds a Chartered Accountant designation. She is an Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario prize-winner and served as a marker for the Institute’s professional examinations. She has lectured on accounting topics at the University of Ottawa, as well.
Ms. Morris serves on the Advisory Committee to the Dean of the Carleton University Sprott School of Business. A past Board member of the Forum for International Trade Training, she is an active member of the Financial Executives Institute and the Association of Financial Professionals. In 2011, Ms. Morris was appointed a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Ottawa.
