BC Multi-Sectoral Aboriginal Leadership Initiative
Facilitators
Areef Abraham
Areef Abraham has many years of experience in working with organizations to help them reap the benefits of being energy efficient. As the former CEO of Homeworks Services Inc., a company whose business model involves improving the energy efficiency of residential customers, Areef led the development of a sales strategy based on the cost savings that energy efficiency can bring.
Mark Selman
Mark Selman has been creating and leading innovative training and educational initiatives across a wide range of business practices and professions since the mid 1980s. Mark's guidance of the Learning Strategies Group combines an imaginative vision of learning with his experience as a business owner. He has worked with numerous organizations including the Education Task Force of the Vancouver Board of Trade, Kitamaat Village Council, BC Hydro, CP Rail, Alcan Primary Metals, Teck Cominco, Turning Point Initiative, Weyerhaeuser and the Institute for Railway Technology.
"Helping organizations take a strategic approach to learning involves getting to know them quite well. It's exciting. Finding out what makes them tick, and where we can make a difference keeps us challenged and engaged. The fact that we can do this together, as a group that is committed to exploring how new approaches to learning can contribute to organizational performance, makes it a special opportunity."
Glenn Sigurdson
Glenn Sigurdson, Q.C., has a distinguished career dealing with diverse interests - building relationships, achieving consensus, developing partnerships, and resolving conflict. Within organizations, he has given leadership to strategic planning exercises, and the design of dispute management systems. He is internationally known for his work in complex, large-scale, multi-party challenges, often relating to resources and the environment, often involving First Nations.
A former president of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), now the Association of Conflict Resolution, Mr. Sigurdson has written and spoken extensively in the field, including co-authoring Building Consensus for a Sustainable Future: Putting Principles into Practice, and is profiled in Public Dispute Mediators: Profiles of 15 Distinguished Careers, a publication of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Barry Stuart
For the past 35 years, Barry's work has focused on resolving conflicts and improving the decision-making processes in both the public and private sector. He has worked in a wide range of many challenging settings to develop skills and processes to engage conflict in ways that generate innovative solutions and build effective relationships. He is internationally known through his training, teaching, writings and involvement as a mediator, negotiator and facilitator.
Barry's principal interest lies in creating safe places for people to engage in the difficult dialogues needed to move through seemingly intractable differences.
He has worked in several communities in Canada, the United States and in third world countries to develop community and restorative justice processes as an integral part of enhancing community well-being and sustainability.
Barry Stuart's career highlights include Chief Judge, Yukon (retired), Principal Partner of CSE Consulting Group, Associate of the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and Adjunct Professor, Criminology at Simon Fraser University.