Open Space Institute of Canada

Member Profiles

(Provided by members in the language of their choice.)

 

 

Donna Clark

Emergent Futures Consulting, Inc.

Halifax NS

donna@emergentfutures.ca
www.carmodyclark.com

 

Donna Clark is a workplace innovator with 28 years of experience in the public and private sectors in advisory and senior management positions. Since 1996, first as a founding partner in Carmody, Clark & Associates and since 2005 as Senior Consultant and President of Emergent Futures Consulting, she has served as a facilitator, educator and coach with a focus on leadership development, community building and organizational transformation. She has facilitated over 25 Open Space Technology (OST) meetings and is a trainer in both OST and the Conscious Open Space Organization with the Genuine Contact™ Program. For more information visit www.emergentfutures.ca.   

 

 

 

Michelle Cooper, RN, MScN

Integral Visions Consulting Inc.

200 Crestview Ave

Ancaster ON L9G 1E2

Telephone: (905) 648-4633

Fax: (905) 648-1763

Toll Free (North America): 1-877-405-9918

mcooper@integralvisions.com

www.integralvisions.com

 

Michelle Cooper has dedicated her work and learning to promote, improve and sustain the effectiveness and health of organizations and to build capacity to lead change from within. Since 1995, she has facilitated numerous Open Space Technology meetings for large and small groups and organizations, including provincial and national conferences. Michelle also offers facilitation workshops including basic and advanced levels of "Working with Open Space Technology", two components of the Genuine Contactd program.

 

 

 

Diane Gibeault

Diane Gibeault & Associé.es/Associates

OTTAWA ON K1K 2T5

613-744-2638

diane.gibeault@rogers.com

www.dianegibeault.com

 

Diane Gibeault is a bilingual consultant, who specializes in participative and innovative methods that enhance communication and create enthusiasm and commitment. For several years now, she has provided training on the Open Space approach with colleagues and recently with Harrison Owen, OS founder. Using Open Space, she facilitated leadership conferences with several hundred participants, senior management training, work sessions with change management teams, transformation processes involving all members of the organization and team building for successful mergers. Diane is an International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Certified Professional Facilitator.

 

 

Esther Matte

Communications Esther Matte
Verchères QC  J0L 2R0

514-583-5849
ematte@excellence.ca

www.excellence.ca

Esther Matte has been in business for over 10 years and established her reputation with creative, enthusiastic, rigorous and transparent consulting. She speaks both English and French and specializes in strategic communications and group facilitation. Esther has worked with federal departments, private companies, non-governmental organizations and unions. Curious and passionate about the world of work and individuals’ contributions to a group she co-authored Vivre au coeur de la tornade, a guide to career transition with a dynamic and positive twist.

She has trained in Open Space Technology (OST) with Diane Gibeault and Larry Peterson, pioneers of OST in Canada, and since facilitated or co-facilitated several events with groups from 5 to 130 people.

 

Raymonde Lemire

Documents Etcetera

OTTAWA ON  K1K 2Z8

(613) 749-5975

raymonde@documentsetc.ca

www.documentsetc.ca

 

Raymonde provides virtual administrative support services to business professionals. Some of these services include: financial management (invoicing, accounts payable/ receivables and monthly reporting); documentation preparation (letters, manuals, reports, presentations); Internet research and logistical support for training or other events.

 

Raymonde has taken the Open Space training workshops offered in 2002 by Diane Gibeault and Larry Peterson. She continues to pursue her interest in Open Space by providing administrative and on-site technical support to OS events.

 

 

 

Odette Levac

Gatineau QC

levacmao@hotmail.com

 

Odette Levac considers Open Space as the ideal approach for organizations to learn from their « people » how to create innovative and effective courses of action.  She has facilitated open space events in the private, public, non-governmental and volunteer sectors, for groups of twelve to three hundred participants.  A certified facilitatorMC, a practitioner trained by the Institute of Cultural Affairs of Canada and perfectly bilingual, Ms Levac guides individuals and organizations to tap into their critical thinking and creativity. The results - team and organizational change leading to the actions necessary to realize their vision and bring about real and sustained growth and profit.

 

 

 

Carol Loughrey , O.C., M.B.A., F.C.A. (Ontario)

Fredericton NB

loughrey@nbnet.nb.ca

 

Carol Loughrey has been working with open space since 1996.  She has been a university professor, a provincial deputy minister, a practising Chartered Accountant and a senior manager and business owner.  She has held senior volunteer positions in the non-profit sector as well as heading local, provincial and national professional and charitable organizations.  Trained by Open Space founder Harrison Owen as well as Larry Peterson and Birgitt Bolton, she continues to be amazed with the results achieved from this incredible process. She finds it exciting to work with organizations to help them plan their future and improve their processes for achieving it.  In 2004 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in the category of Industry/Commerce/Business. 

 

 

Jim Muckle

Managing Director, BrainsInAction Inc.

6152 Ravine Way, Suite 201

OTTAWA ON   K1C 7E9

613-841-4332 / 1-888-384-6666 / (fax) 613-841-4335

jim.muckle@brainsinaction.com

www.brainsinaction.com

http://www.iaf-world.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageid=4134

 

Obtaining the best from the stakeholder brains in your Open Space process requires designing and delivering that process with those brains in mind. Jim Muckle is professionally certified in Applied Educational Neuroscience. His training with Harrison Owen (OS founder), and as a Certified Professional Facilitator, complement his specialization in human performance.

 

Jim Muckle’s very brain-friendly and results-oriented OS projects have ranged from facilitating small groups for less than a day to leading five facilitators in the design and delivery of a 6-day OS process involving numerous and diverse national stakeholders. Most of his Open Space work has involved leading teams of 2 to 4 facilitators, using tailored and sometimes multi-lingual 2 to 3-day processes, to meet the specific needs of 60 to 150 participants.

 

 

 

Jacqueline Pelletier

Jacqueline Pelletier & Associates

OTTAWA ON K1C 7S1

613-837-3631

jacquelinepelletier@rogers.com

 

Jacqueline Pelletier is a consultant in the field of integrated, whole-system processes. Fluently bilingual, she works with governments, non-profit organizations and the private sector. She designs and facilitates small and mostly large group interventions to address all aspects of organizational life. Jacqueline has trained in and uses several well-tested whole system methodologies including Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search and Whole Scale Change.

 

 

 

Larry Peterson

Associates in Transformation

Toronto ON

(416) 651-6913

www.spiritedorg.com

larry@spiritedorg.com

 

Larry brings 30 years of experience in facilitating meetings and transformational change in Canada and the US. He has been facilitating Open Space Technology meetings since 1990. He has led over 150 Open Space events ranging in scale from 600 to 6 participants. He is a founder of the Open Space Institute of Canada. He has led training events, conferences and published numerous articles on Open Space

 

 

 

Meg Salter

MegaSpace Consulting

(416) 486-6660

Msalter@megaspaceconsulting.com

www.megaspaceconsulting.com

 

 

Meg Salter brings 25 years of international experience in business management, change navigation and organisational effectiveness. Open Space Technology has been used with clients in diverse situations; post-merger, team development, program launch, enhancing project performance, strategic orientation, stakeholder consolidation, values articulation, communities of practice. An integral approach engages both the lifeblood and the spine of the organisation. Open Space Technology activates the lifeblood of energy and intention; organisational designs that foster accountability and trust activate a supporting structure. She speaks and publishes on Open Space, Complexity and Management, and on Being Fully Present.