ASSOCIATES

Tara Addis, BSc. (Psychology & Sociology)

With more than fifteen years of corporate, not-for-profit and public management experience, Tara has designed, developed and implemented award winning community engagement and communications programs. She has also worked with leading companies to create effective stakeholder engagement teams, policies and practices.

Tara is currently helping AstraZeneca Canada’s Leadership Team to design and execute a company-wide stakeholder engagement strategy. She also Chairs the Stakeholder Relations Committee for the internationally recognized National Campaign to Control Cancer and formerly co-founded GrantStream Inc. a consulting and service company in the field of corporate community investment, citizenship and stakeholder relations. Among her clients were CN, RBC Financial, ING Canada and Sasktel.  In 2002 Tara was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal recognizing her contribution to Canada and her community.

Myriam Laberge, M.A (Economics)

Myriam is a Director of the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Group and since 2000, has worked with Ann through the Centre to develop conferences and workshops on co-creative stakeholder engagement. Her focus as a Certified Professional Facilitator, organization development consultant, and program instructor is designing, facilitating, writing and teaching about effective multi-stakeholder methods and processes, with a particular emphasis on dialogue, collaborative learning, and whole system engagement to build understanding and alignment within and across boundaries. She has co-authored several articles with Ann in academic journals. In her private practice, Myriam is a Principal of Breakthroughs UNLIMITED Inc.

Dr. Anne Lawrence
Anne T. Lawrence is Professor of Organization and Management at San Jose State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Prof. Lawrence is the lead author of Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy, 11th edition (Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2005). Her articles and cases on issues of corporate social and environmental responsibility have appeared in many journals, textbooks, and anthologies.

Dr. Steve Waddell
Steve focuses upon large systems change and global network development. The issues may be as broad as trade, poverty and sustainable development, or as specific as road-building, youth employment, banking and provision of water and sanitation services. Usually the change strategy involves creating business-government-civil society collaborations and networks; these collaborations may be local, national or global. Steve is Executive Director of the Global Action Network Net, Associate at Strategic Clarity and the Institute for Strategic Clarity, and an adjunct faculty member innovative executive management program he founded at Boston College. Dozens of journal articles and book chapters by Steve have been published in English and Spanish. Greenleaf is publishing a book by Waddell titled Societal Learning and Change: Innovation with Multi-Stakeholder Strategies. Steve has a doctorate in sociology and an MBA. Publications are available through The Collaboration Works and Global Action Networks .



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