Our Facilitators

 

AIMEE FORTIER, DipAdEd (StFX)

  • Owner: Aimee Fortier Performance Solutions, Ottawa
  • 20 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include consulting (learning design, needs assessment, evaluation) and facilitation (train-the-trainer for SMEs, presentation skills, coaching skills, learning design for SMEs)
  • Quote: "Good facilitators 'get out of the way' of learners – they make space for learning to happen."

ALISON McEACHERN, MEd (Dal)

  • Owner: McEachern & Associates Inc (MACI), Halifax
  • 23 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include needs assessment, design and facilitation of experiential learning programs related to presentation and facilitation skills for trainers, managers and team leaders, as well as facilitation of community and organizational problem-solving processes
  • Quote: "Designing PowerPoints is not designing learning." 

BILL GOGGIN, MAdEd (StFX)

  • Director, Diploma in Adult Education, StFX, Antigonish
  • 30 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include needs assessment, program evaluation, experiential learning design, facilitation of learning programs, and training program administration
  • Quote: "We need more certified T & D professionals ... not less."

CHRISTINE POHLKAMP, DipEqSc (Guelph), DipAdEd (StFX)

  • Owner: Nova Training & Consulting, Toronto
  • 26 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include team building, performance management, coaching and development of staff, customer service, communication skills, and leadership skills
  • Quote: "What is the consequence of doing nothing at all?" 

DIANE WHITTAKER, MA Adult Ed (Toronto), CPCC (Intl Coaching Fed)

  • Owner: D. Whittaker & Associates, Toronto
  • 25 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include leadership development, coaching, both virtual and classroom facilitation and design that use the experiential approach, facilitation development, 360 feedback
  • Quote: "Learning at any age is a journey not a destination."

JENNIFER CAMPBELL, BEd (SMU), DipAdEd (StFX)

  • Director of Operations, Web.com, Yarmouth
  • 15 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include learning design and facilitation for operational, technical, and sales training
  • Quote: "The challenge in workplace training often is to convince the organization that the training process requires as much – or more – consideration than the content of the training." 

KELLIE McIVOR, BA (Dal), DipArt Conservation (SSF College), DipAdEd (StFX)

  • Owner, McIvor Conservation, Halifax 
  • 8 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include heritage consulting and treatment, and associated technical training
  • Quote: "Adult Learners have a lifetime of experience and skills; recognizing and utilizing learners' collective knowledge is the key to facilitation."

 WENDY WARD, DipAdEd (StFX)

  • Owner:  W. Ward Associates, Toronto
  • 20 years experience
  • Areas of expertise include ethical decision-making/problem-solving, leadership, communication skills, needs (gap) analysis, evaluation, program design, facilitation skills, presentation skills
  • Quote: "The best way to learn something is to "do it" ... in an environment that is free of the fear of failure." 

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