Our team:
Kay Crinean
Sharon LeBlanc
Nancy Radcliffe
Brenda Haley
Gabrielle Donnelly
Andrew Leverman

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Summary of
Team Expertise

Kay Crinean (President)

Kay Crinean is an experienced and energetic management consultant, project manager and mentor who works closely with clients to develop strategies, manage innovation and change, build capacity and deliver concrete results. Has extensive experience in collaborative and multi-stakeholder ventures.

An experienced and skilled facilitator and change agent who creates trust and enables diverse stakeholders to achieve results together that could not be achieved individually. A community-builder who is highly effective at promoting communication between sectors.

An innovator, entrepreneur and organizational developer with a successful track record in transforming ideas into reality. Has created and run two unique multi-stakeholder organizations in Canada (Novaknowledge) and the UK (a national software engineering program) that facilitated collaboration between companies, government and academia, enabling the stakeholders to seize opportunities and overcome challenges in innovation, business and economic development.

A policy and strategy developer who has conducted and published research in the UK and Canada in the fields of innovation, commercialization, human resources, information technology, environmental sustainability, economic development and the knowledge economy, and who develops and implements solutions on the basis of solid research data combined with stakeholder consultation processes.

An expert in government-industry relations who has developed, influenced and implemented economic policy and strategy in Nova Scotia from inside and outside government: as Executive Director of the Technology Transfer Office of the NS Department of Economic Development, and as Executive Director of Novaknowledge. At the UK National Computing Centre, was the founder and director of a successful five-year, national industry program to improve software engineering and quality. It involved participants from all the major IT systems developers and purchasers in the UK, established national software engineering standards and used public sector procurement to implement adoption of the standards.

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