Practice Area: Collaborative Leadership
Liz Weaver is the Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute where she is leading the Tamarack Learning Centre. Liz is well-known for her thought leadership on Collaborative Leadership and Collective Impact and is the author of several popular and academic papers on those topics. She is a co-catalyst partner with the Collective Impact Forum and collaborates with Inspiring Communities New Zealand and Collaborating for Impact, Australia. Liz is passionate about the power and potential of communities getting to impact on complex issues.
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Liz's Office Hours
Wednesdays 2-4pm EST - 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Measurement Strategy and Strategic Planning
Danya Pastuszek is the Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute and the Director of Vibrant Communities. She spent ten years as a local intermediary, supporting school-based, neighborhood-based, and regional outcomes-focused partnerships, in both operational leadership and partnership facilitation roles. She has also worked as a service provider with refugees and with youth and adults impacted by the criminal justice system. In her coaching and facilitation, Danya draws from experience with communities. She joins together racial equity, continuous improvement, adaptive leadership, liberatory design, and social psychology principles.
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Danya's Office Hours
Tuesdays 2-4pm EST - 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Collective Impact
Sylvia is a Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute’s Collective Impact practice area. She is passionate about community change and what becomes possible when residents and various sector leaders share an aspirational vision for their future. Sylvia believes that when the assets of residents and community are recognized and connected they become powerful drivers of community change.
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Sylvia's Office Hours
Tuesdays 2-4pm EST - 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Community Engagement
In her role at Tamarack, Lisa works with cities, organizations and coalitions to improve the way they engage with their communities. Over the last seven years her work has focused on creating authentic engagement strategies and building the culture for engagement, integrated communications planning, and the use of technology and creativity for engagement. Lisa constantly advocates for simplicity in infrastructure, frameworks and design and loves applying the principles of marketing, advertising, loyalty, and user experience to community initiatives.
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Lisa's Office Hours
Thursdays 10-12am EST - 15-minute free consultations
Focus Area: Québec and French-speaking communities
Myriam is the Consulting Director for Quebec at the Tamarack Institute. She’s passionate about community innovation and development and brings her understanding of the diversity of experiences made in Quebec into Tamarack’s five interconnected areas of practices (collective impact, community engagement, collaborative leadership, community innovation and evaluating impact) leading to community change. She believes that we can accelerate our effectiveness by learning from one another, thus increasing our social impact and even inspiring others beyond our borders.
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Practice Area: Evaluation and Strategic Learning
Jean-Marie Chapeau is the Consulting Director Evaluating impact at the Tamarack Institute. Deeply convinced that local and collaborative approaches are an essential lever in solving complex social issues, Jean-Marie has been involved in community development and social change for 25 years. Jean-Marie mobilizes his experience, passion and curiosity to promote evaluation as a tool for empowerment in communities and to accompany individuals and groups in their learning processes. He is constantly seeking to build bridges between change-makers involved in inventing local solutions to poverty and exclusion.
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Consultations aussi disponibles en français.
Jean-Maries Office Hours
Thursdays 3:00 - 4:30 pm EST - 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Digital Sales, Engagement & Learning
Jeff Doner leads the Marketing and Communications practice at Tamarack as Director, Digital Sales, Engagement & Learning. Through transformative strategy development, thought leadership, and operational optimization, Jeff’s work enables the Tamarack community to advance digital intelligence and impact. As a Professor with the School of Communications, Media, Arts, and Design at Centennial College, Jeff develops and delivers curriculums focussed on digital enablement through transformative capability building. He provides workshops, training, and consulting services to a range of community collaboratives.
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Jeff's Office Hours
Fridays 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST - 15-minute free consultations
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute
Paul Born is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute, A 27,000 person learning community and the Founder and Director of Vibrant Communities, Cities Reducing Poverty and Cities Deepening Community with chapters now active in nearly 400 cities. He is the author of four books, including two Canadian best-sellers. Paul is a global faculty member of the Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) and a senior fellow of Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social innovators. Paul was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2019.
Paul grew up as the son of Mennonite refugees. This is what made him deeply curious about and engaged in ideas that cause people to work together for the common good. He has a passion for ending poverty and a longing for community. Paul has founded three pan-Canadian organizations and five regional ones. These organizations have been recognized with national and international awards from the United Nations, Imagine Canada, The Conference Board of Canada, CEDNET, Trillium Foundation and the Governor General. Paul has taught, provided consultation and delivered keynotes in over a dozen countries around the world. He holds a B.A. from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Leadership from Royal Roads University.
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Send Paul an email at: pborn@tamarackcommunity.ca
To learn more about Paul's books go to www.paulborn.ca
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