Board of Directors for 2011-12

Teresa first joined BCODN in 2003… and has been hooked ever since. “I was excited to find a group of people who thought just like me!” she says. She returns to the BCODN Board of directors as president for 2010/11.

Teresa is an independent OD consultant, and part-time instructor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and BCIT. With over 20 years of experience, her areas of expertise include communication, leadership development, team development, interpersonal relationships, and high performance in organizations. Her previous volunteer experience included a four-year term with Leadership Vancouver, a three-year term as a leadership development trainer with Volunteer Vancouver, and a four-year stint with the Advisory Planning Commission.

Donna is an experienced coach and consultant, with 25+ years in the tourism, health, finance, government and not-for-profit sectors. She holds a Bachelors of Business in OD and Change Management, and is a Certified Executive Coach and Certified Human Resource Professional. Her specialty is group and interpersonal dynamics, culture change, internal communications and leadership development.

The common thread connecting Donna’s varied careers (radio & TV news and talk show host, political reporter; PR, marketing, recruitment consultant; student; corporate communications and change manager) comes from wanting to understand how things work. “This is embedded deep inside my DNA and comes directly from my dad, who was an engineer. As the daughter of an engineer, I can honestly say that I’m interested in seeing how EVERYTHING works.”

Donna is a past founding board member of the ODN in Melbourne, Australia, and Leaders of Tomorrow and BC HRMA mentor. Her new enterprise is called Humanity at Work.

Cathy works for the University of Phoenix, and is involved with human resources and organizational fevelopment as related to the school’s faculty. This includes managing the payroll, developing expense standards, effectively utilizing resources (people, time, money) and always creating and improving organizational systems. Prior to joining the University of Phoenix, Cathy’s career was in the financial industry where she has over seventeen years of experience, of which 15 were at the management level.

Cathy has a wide range of experience in finance, ranging from payroll to underwriting loans/mortgages to providing investment advice, creating/managing budgets and ensuring people are clear on what their needs are so they can make appropriate/empowering choices. Cathy has extensive experience with finances in non-profit societies, where she has been involved in all aspects of the organization’s finances… creating the foundation that these organizations currently stand upon.

Lynn is an organizational development consultant with seventeen years of experience in the public sector, and an alumnus of the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS). She first joined the BCODN in 2007 after attending a powerful workshop by Dr. Stephen Schuitevoerder. At that workshop, as at LIOS, she was struck by the realization that these were her people, and this work was her calling. She is delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to the BCODN in the role of secretary.

Lynn’s areas of focus and expertise are employee engagement, and leadership and team development. Some of the theories and methodologies that have had the greatest influence on her work are Appreciative Inquiry, Barry Oshry’s Total System Power, and David Rock’s research on neuroleadership. Lynn has used these and other models to support her clients in broadening their perspective of what is possible, and elevating their performance as leaders and teams.

François is passionate about everything OD and a proponent of multiple forms of human evolution ranging from the individual to the organizational. At his core, he values increasing awareness and knowledge via dialogue with other engaged individuals, reading and formal/informal programs. Systems thinking, organizational diagnosis, change, resistance, power dynamics, and leadership are just a few of the topics that interest him deeply.

He has 10 years of working in many learning, OD and leadership roles within organizations such as Rogers Communications, CIBC, VANOC, and various non-profits. Some of the programs he has developed and implemented include performance management, management & leadership development, global onboarding and employee engagement.

He’s a CHRP, and has certificates in Adult Training and Development from the University of Toronto, and Organization Development from NTL Institute. He is also certified in Situational Leadership and the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI).

This is Shauna’s first term as a member of the BCODN Board. A member of BCODN since 2008, Shauna has worked for 20+ years in corporate positions in HR and OD, in roles such as training manager, director of learning & development, human resources director, and VP of HR in multi-unit hospitality and retail organizations. Working as a consultant with Insights Vancouver for the last 2 years, she has clients in for profit, not for profit and government organizations.

A life-long learner, Shauna is an active member of round tables with BC HRMA and the ASTD, and has accreditations from the Centre for Creative Leadership and Insights. She teaches at Capilano University in their Entrepreneurship program, and is a guest lecturer at Kwantlen University in their post-baccalaureate Human Resource program.

Amanda recently relocated to Canada and was delighted to find BCODN when she arrived in Vancouver. Enthusiastic about developing people and improving organizational performance, Amanda has worked in Japan, the U.K, and Canada, and has facilitated corporate learning programs across industries and organizational levels with clients and participants from around the world.

With interests in strategic communications, employee engagement, teambuilding, and leadership development, Amanda spent the last 7 years working in Tokyo, Japan on projects for clients such as the Australian Embassy, Morgan Stanley, L’Oreal, 3M, and Continental Automotive. Some of the recent pro- grams she developed and delivered include global leadership, 360° feedback, high performing teams, assertive communication, and cross-cultural problem solving.

Amanda holds an M.Sc from the London School of Economics, and certificates from the ASTD and Miller Heiman Sales Performance Company. She is also accredited to administer Team Management Systems’ Team Management Profile (team building and work preference psychometric) and Linking Skills Profile (360° feedback). Passionate about learning, she has a CHRP in progress, is currently completing a Marketing Communications certificate at BCIT, and is diligently soaking up knowledge from her colleagues in BCODN and BCHRMA.

Lori takes a strengths-based approach to assist organizations in their development, with a mission to build socially sustainable workplaces. Her approach is to leverage the best in organizations and its people –offering cultural assessments, individual and team assessments, aligning policy to people practices, program design, and strategic human resources advising.

Lori brings a breadth of experience to this work, having earned her stripes over the last 15 years in both small and large organizations: She has been the Executive Director of a community mediation centre, managed a national leadership training program for an international tax and consulting firm, and served as the Associate Dean, Equity at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine. Currently, Lori runs her own consulting practice – Sandbox Consulting. She holds an adjunct appointment in Law at UBC and is a member of an ethics review board.

Having trained as a lawyer, Lori grounds her work with teams and individuals in principles of equity and natural justice. She earned her first law degree (J.D.) in the US and her Masters of Law (LL.M.) at UBC. She is eager to contribute to the mission of BCODN as a member of the Board.

Stacy has recently joined the BCODN and decided to jump in head first and become a board member as well. She currently works as the Director of Organizational Development for the Credit Counselling Society, a non-profit organization in Western Canada. Her passion is in leadership, team and organizational development. She is a certified Coach, NLP Practitioner and has Master’s in Family Ecology. She has taught at the Universities of Alberta, British Columbia and Fraser Valley. And in her spare time, loves to read, play golf, and hang out with her family and friends.

Jose is a social psychologist specializing on organization learning and development. He uses today’s communication technologies to expand coverage and increase accessibility to learning portals and to power-up people’s innovation in the workplace. He is building a model of Intuitive Learning called T4: Tinker, Tweak, Test & Transform and is defining how to spread it throughout the organization through a knowledge management infrastructure.

He brings to the role of Board Director his experience in organization development, knowledge management, learning and development to support the BC ODN’s commitment to the professional development of the general membership and the larger community of OD practitioners in British Columbia.