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Educational Courses and Programs

“Practical insights and tools applied to “real life” situations, anchoring principles and practice in actual experience combined with a “hands on” opportunity through role plays to live out the lessons – that is the essence of our approach.”

  • Course design, and delivery of a program focused on Building Relationships and Dealing with Differences with the Learning Strategies Group, a division of SFU Business, to strengthen the leadership capacity of people, organizations and communities, (including the Executive MBA Program customized for particular business client groups in different locales).
  • Leader in the design, development, and delivery of the “Growing the Story” exercise within the SFU Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue, which challenges participants within a multidisciplinary intensive seminar-based undergraduate experience to understand the players and the dynamics of complex organizational interactions, relationships, and conflicts.
  • Leader in the design, development, and delivery of a workshop called “The Power of the Question” for Action Canada (a leadership program inspired and funded through a partnership between a private benefactor, Samuel Belzberg, and the Government of Canada) which challenges prominent emerging Canadian leaders – the Action Canada Fellows – to understand the importance of questions in the art of leadership.
  • Leader, with Barry Stuart, in the design and development of Managing and Resolving Multi-Party Cases, a joint initiative of the SFU Dialogue Forum and the National Judicial Institute, and its delivery to 25 superior and appeal court judges from across Canada in February, 2005.
  • Programs in Negotiation Based Conflict Resolution, Leadership, and Executive and Management Development – the Banff Centre for Management (1985-95); BC Forests Continuing Studies Network (1993-96); Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC (1996-99); Cascade Centre, University of Washington (1999); designing and delivering similar programs on a customized basis to business, government agencies and departments, First Nations, and non-government organizations.
  • Course Instructor, School of Business, Simon Fraser University in Graduate Business Programs – “Business, Government, and Society.”
  • Faculty member, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. Professional Development Program and Course Instructor in the LL.M. Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution.
  • Skilled in utilizing training and orientation as a way to create “safe places” – an entry point for diverse interests to explore their interest in engaging with each other “in a different way to have a different kind of conversation.”