Craig has been the owner of NewView Consulting for the past sixteen years and brings over thirty years of diverse management and leadership development experience from the healthcare, adult education, biotechnology and airline sectors. He has had a long-standing relationship with Memorial University for the past fifteen years, beginning in the    former Division of LifeLong Learning to his current appointment as an Instructor with the Gardiner Centre. 

Craig's driving purpose in life, and the mission of NewView Consulting, is to "help individuals and organizations get from where they are to where they want to be."  Backed by his certifications in the EQi2.0 Emotional Intelligence assessment and the Rhodes' Thinking Styles assessment, Effective IntelligenceTM, Craig takes a 'whole brain' cognitive and emotional intelligence approach to support leaders in achieving their desired outcomes. 

Craig holds a B.Sc (Agr), University of Guelph; a Certificate in Technical and Vocational Education and a Certificate in Leadership Studies, from Memorial University. In 2007, he was honored to be selected by famed author and international leadership expert, Robin Sharma, to be an advisor and Certified Coach for the world-class, Lead Without Title workshop program available from Robin Sharma International (www.robinsharma.com).

Darren Stratton is a partner with McInnes Cooper.  Since his call to the Newfoundland and Labrador bar in 1993, he has helped clients understand their rights and obligations pertaining to union-management relations, health and safety, employee discharge and discipline, human rights and employment standards - all within their unique regulatory and labour relations environments.  He has successfully represented them in collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, labour relations board and human rights proceedings, court actions and mediation.

Darren has taught labour relations at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He continues to provide specialized training and seminars on employment law and labour relations topics for clients and other lawyers. Darren is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Law Society of Newfoundland & Labrador and the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers. He is a member of the Law Society's Disciplinary Panel and chairs the Labour and Employment Section of its Bar Admission Course.

A long time ago, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Co-operative) degree at Memorial University and a Bachelor of Laws degree at Dalhousie University.

Lynn Ansara (Best) is a skilled, experienced facilitator who is passionate about supporting the achievement of organizational goals and employee development. Lynn holds a Master's Degree in Adult Education, two undergraduate degrees in Arts and Post-Secondary Education, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching. Lynn also holds a number of certifications including Legacy Leadership(TM),  Emotional Intelligence, Myers Briggs Personality Indicator, True Colors(TM), and Coaching Out of the Box(TM). Lynn uses a coach approach to teaching and learning. She creates trusting, collaborative partnerships and learning environments directed at achieving results while infusing humour, challenge, and accountability.

Lynn is the President of CreAction Consulting, facilitating workplace learning and employee development. She has worked with a wide-variety of public, private and not-for-profit industries supporting organizations and employees in achieving their goals.

Michael Stanleigh has a reputation for helping organizations define their strategic direction, manage change, become more innovative, improve the performance of their leadership and successfully execute their projects.  He has been fortunate to consult and advise some of the most admired organizations in the world. As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and CEO of Business Improvement Architects, Michael shares his consulting wisdom and secrets for operational success with organizations around the world to help them succeed.

Michael’s broad experience and expertise in operational effectiveness has helped his clients achieve their goals. Michael increases leadership performance through strategic planning, creates cultures and customized processes that drive innovation, improves key business processes through business process management and reengineering and manages the impact of these organizational changes.    

As a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) Michael loves to share his business secrets for operational success with business audiences around the world.    Michael involves audiences in understanding and managing change and business leaders in getting to the root cause of their business problems and generating effective solutions.  He has a tremendous way, during corporate events, of engaging leaders and employees in a creative process of idea generation for the front-end of innovation.  His content rich presentations are delivered with the same passion, spark, energy and creativity that he gives to his business clients. 

As a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Michael provides consulting, coaching and customized training for Project Management Offices, Project Leaders and Project Teams on managing projects, creating project plans, conducting project audits and undertaking project risk assessments.  As a Scrum Master he uses his expertise in the Waterfall and Agile processes to create unique approaches to continued project success. 

Today, Michael consults, trains, coaches and mentors public and private sector organizations throughout the world.  Michael has been featured and published in over 500 different magazines and industry publications around the world.  He is a faculty member for the Gardiner Institute at Memorial University, the American Society for Quality and Leadership USA™.   Michael is a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC Canada), the Scrum Alliance, senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and the Global Speakers Federation.

After receiving his MBA and LLB from Queen’s University, Richard worked as a corporate lawyer for a national Canadian law firm. He later served as Corporate Counsel for Honda Canada Inc.

At the University of Toronto, Richard served as the Associate Dean of the Rotman School of Management where he was responsible for all full-time and part-time MBA programs as well as the Master of Finance Program. It was during this time that he began focusing his interests on governance related matters.

An internationally recognized expert in both corporate and not-for-profit governance, Richard is the National Academic Director of The Directors Education Program (DEP) and the Not-For-Profit Governance Essentials Program (GEP) (in partnership with the Institute of Corporate Directors – ICD). Richard also serves as the Academic Director of the CUES Governance Programs in Canada. He also teaches in Rotman’s Executive MBA, OMNIUM, MBA and Executive Education Programs.

Richard has worked with numerous boards, associations and organizations in identifying, creating and developing best governance practices as well as assessing and achieving strategic and organizational goals. His work has taken him to over 20 countries.

In regards to healthcare, Richard has advised and worked with the Canadian Medical Association, the Ontario Medical Association, Ontario Hospital Association, Ontario College of Family Physicians, Health Association – Nova Scotia, Alberta Health Services and the Alberta College of Physicians & Surgeons.

He has been a director and committee member of over 30 organizations including Rugby Canada, Childhood Cancer Canada, St. Clement’s School, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Commonwealth Games Federation and currently serves as President of Commonwealth Games Canada. Richard currently serves as a Director of Pivotree Inc., a publicly listed corporation. He also sits on the Board of the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre and the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario. He frequently comments on legal and governance in various media across Canada and the USA.

Dr. Tom Cooper is a Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University, where he lectures in the areas of strategy, risk management, management consulting and ethics/values at both an undergraduate and graduate level. His research is primarily focused on the interplay between strategy and risk management. Tom also has research interests in participatory approaches to research and doing business in remote areas.

Tom also acts as an advisor to a number of organizations in Canada and is a Certified Management Consultant. He has sat on the Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Newfoundland and Labrador (ICANL) as an appointed public representative since 2008. He was a member of the Governance as well as the Strategic Planning Committee of ICANL. He has also acted as a committee member of the CPA TSC's Governance and Strategic Planning subcommittees. He is the current Chair of Startup Newfoundland and Labrador. He is a mentor with Futurpreneur and is a past a Board Member with the Atlantic Chapter of the Certified Management Consultants.

Prior to taking his position at Memorial, Tom was a Senior Manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Performance Improvement Consulting practice in London. Tom worked as a senior consultant in this area for ten years with clients in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America.

Tom's research has been published widely in industry and academic publications. He has been quoted in the Financial Times of London, BBC World Service, CBC, Atlantic Business, and other industry publications. He holds a Ph.D. in Business from the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Dr. Travor C. Brown is the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial Univeristy.  He is a Professor of Labour Relations and Human Resources and former President of ASAC (the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada).  He has taught at Memorial University, the University of Toronto and the University of Ulster.  Since joining Memorial University, he has also served as the Associate Dean (Research) and the Director of the Master of Employment Relations, MSc (Management) and PhD (Management) programs.  Dr. Brown has been appointed to the provincial roster of arbitrators.

Dr. Brown has authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, a textbook and over 70 conference presentations.  He has also been the sole investigator on two national Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grants.  Much of his research examines issues concerning goal setting and training effectiveness, with special focus on managment and leadership development.

Dr. Brown's academic background is coupled with extensive industry experience.  He worked in the telecommunications and manufacturing sectors prior to completing his PhD at the University of Toronto and remains active in the practitioner community.  Given this background, Dr. Brown is well known for this ability to engage both practitioner and academic audiences and to show the 'real world' implications of his research.

Zoe Mitchell is an award winning ex-corporate senior leader who is a firm believer in the power of inclusive leadership and the results it can generate. Although the terms "diversity and inclusion" were not part of her corporate career, the concepts, practices and results were engrained in her leadership style which enabled her to deliver her KPI's as a leader. Her inclusive leadership style ensures the voice and experience of employees are encouraged and respected in order to drive the company's mission and deliverables. Some of her successes using DEI include: double digit employee engagement score increases, reduced errors and omissions, hiring and retention of diverse talent, consecutive years of profitable growth through innovation and much more. Her experience and successes align with inclusion research that confirms inclusive working cultures drive profitable while ensuring everyone thrives.

As a previous corporate senior leader, Zoe Mitchell has had many years of building, developing and leading high-performing inclusive teams while driving her business performance metrics. Throughout her leadership career, she could see the negative impacts poor employee engagement made to individual employees, the overall team and the organization's performance. Even though she was able to leverage her inclusive leadership to drive high performing teams and businesses, she felt that she could make a bigger impact. So after 20 years as a successful corporate senior leader, Zoe resigned from her career in Finance and launched her consultancy Sharp Processes.

Sharp Processes focuses on improving employee engagement using Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Psychological Safety and Process Improvement techniques, information and strategies. We offer assessment, training & workshops, custom strategies, advisory and implementation support to senior leaders and their teams, in order to create inclusive cultures where everyone feels that they belong and can do their best work.

Zoe is also the author of the upcoming book Inclusive Leadership Now, which is designed to be a reflective tool for individuals to understand the 'foundation of a successful inclusive leader'.