Experience

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  The Professional Developmet Institute (PDI) Inc.

  • Managing Partner, Science and Technology

    • 1997 - Present

    Since its inception in 1975, The Professional Development Institute PDI Inc. has been a leading impartial source of strategic consulting in complex environments. PDI performance-improvement products and cutting-edge management training programs have been delivered throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, Japan and China.The hands-on experience of our management team spans a wide range of sectors including R&D management, life sciences (health, nutrition, food inspection, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology), software, telecommunication, aerospace, chemicals, pulp & paper, banking and insurance, communication (broadcasting, advertizing, Internet), educational institutions, defense and government.

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  Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa

  • Adjunct Professor

    • 1996 - Present

    I teach at the MBA and the executive MBA levels, principally in supervising student consulting and directed reading projects. Over the years, I have supervised close to seventy Business Consulting Projects at the executive MBA level, in such areas as telecommunications, internet development, software Web 2.0 innovations, veterinary science and animal husbandry, global strategic planning, and NGO strategic management.I currently tech a new MBA course on “Environment, Innovation, and new business models”.We have completed the first phase of a research project looking at barriers and obstacles to innovation and deploying technologies and services that would lead to a sustainable society. See http://makingithappen.ca I also have a blog that addresses institutional challenges of bringing a sustainable society at http://transitiontosustainability.blogspot.com/

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  TMA-Technology Management Associates

  • President

    • 1994 - Present

    We help our clients find creative solutions to their pressing challenges in new business planning, managing innovation, technology commercialization and planning R&D.We use powerful applied creativity tools to design and lead workshops involving innovation, R&D priority setting and stakeholder consultation.Our past areas of engagements include environment, sustainable development, energy conservation, IT and IM, software development and commercialization, health care, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, and mining an metallurgy industries.Clients include global companies such as Aventis Pasteur, Astra Zeneca, CAE, as well as government departments and agencies, e.g. the National Research Council of Canada, Environment Canada, Health Canada and Natural Resources Canada. Our health care clients include the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical Council of Canada, and the Ottawa Hospital.

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  Hickling

  • principal

    • 1990 - 1994

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  Ottawa Choral Society

  • Bass

    • 1974 - 1988