Progressive Consultants Network Toronto

Douglas Stewart

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Zubeida Ramji

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Kappel Ramji Consulting Group (KRCG) assists health & social services to achieve their strategic goals, become equitable, responsive and accountable. KRCG supports agencies in effective engagement with their diverse consumer & stakeholder groups to gain valuable perspectives that influence organizational policy, growth and change.

Its two principals are Betsy Kappel, MSW and Zubeida Ramji, BSN, MHSc .

Beth Jordan

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Beth Jordan is a senior-level administrator, educator and consultant with more than 15 years’ experience in the social service sector. She has consulted extensively to municipal, provincial and federal levels of government, as well as to more than 30 NGOs at home and abroad. As the Director of Programs and Services at the Assaulted Women’s Helpline, she successfully expanded the organization’s mandate from a municipal to provincial level service, securing $4.5 million in funding. Beth was appointed to the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee by the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario for her violence against women expertise. She was also a member of the National Judicial Institute’s Judicial Education Project Advisory Committee.

Dionne A. Falconer

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Dionne A. Falconer is highly skilled facilitator, trainer and leader with almost 20 years of consulting and senior management experience in the not-for-profit sector. Her Toronto-based consulting firm works both in Canada and globally. It specializes in facilitation, organizational development, strategic planning, operational planning, evaluation, community consultations and governance. Prior to becoming a full-time consultant, she held senior management positions at Lawrence Heights Community Health Centre, Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre and the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention.

Joan Anderson

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Joan Anderson is a respected leader, facilitator and project manager and has been involved in the not-for-profit sector for over 30 years. Prior to becoming a consultant in 1999, Joan was Director of Education & Advocacy with the AIDS Committee of Toronto (1994-1999), including a period as Interim Executive Director, and AIDS Educator/Policy Advisor with the East York Health Unit (1988-1994).

Jan Campbell

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Jan Campbell is the founder and Managing Director of StrategiSense Inc. She is committed to supporting organizations to develop strategies that increase their overall access, effectiveness, responsiveness, and accountability. Jan has over 20 years of experience as an administrator and consultant including roles within Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Scarborough Hospital, Ernst and Young Management Consultants, and the University of Toronto.

StrategiSense’s team of skilled consultants, associates and advisors bring the expertise and experience needed to assist individuals and organizations with developing tailored and lasting solutions. The StrategiSense team is supported by individuals with skills in data-gathering and analysis, and qualitative evaluation. We also have the capacity to facilitate dialogue and gather data in a variety of languages through our network of skilled bilingual facilitators and translators.

Wendy Pinder

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Wendy Pinder is a successful change leader and capacity builder. She brings over 25 years of senior management experience to help organizations strengthen leadership and improve performance. For the past decade, she has managed her consulting practice serving the not-for-profit and government sectors. Prior to that, Wendy’s leadership roles included Coordinator of the ‘Homeless Initiative’ at the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care; Provincial Coordinator for the Ontario Midwifery Program and Health Services Manager at LAMP Community Health Centre. She most recently served as Acting Executive Director for Voices of Positive Women Ontario.

John Miller

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John Miller is a skilled consultant providing planning, facilitation and policy analysis with the non-profit and government sectors for over twenty years. Since 2002, he has been providing organizational development, policy development, and project management services to non-profits, philanthropic organizations and governments in the social service, health sectors, as well as some work with the private sector. Prior to working as a consultant full-time, he served as a manager in the Ontario public service, and before that an Executive Director at a palliative care hospice. Much of his work has been in the HIV and AIDS and early child development sectors, including ongoing consulting work for an international funders’ collaborative working in Africa, South America and Asia. John is also an award-winning author of two novels, The Featherbed (2002), and A Sharp Intake of Breath (2007).

Glen Brown

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Glen Brown is an accomplished leader, manager, and communicator who has been working at senior levels in the not-for-profit sector for over 20 years. For the past decade he has headed a consulting firm providing a wide range of services for the not-for-profit sector. Prior to that he served as the senior manager at the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) and as communications officer for the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.

Contact Us

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Please use the form at right to contact all network members simultaneously. To reach individual members, please see contact information listed in each profile.

PCN-T will consider expanding to include additional members at a later date.

Resources

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Here are some resources we think are very useful for not-for-profit organizations.

Our Network

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Joan Anderson
Glen Brown
Jan Campbell
Dionne A. Falconer
Beth Jordan
Betsy Kappel
Doug Kerr
John Miller
Wendy Pinder
Zubeida Ramji
Douglas Stewart

Who We Are

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We are a group of consultants working primarily in the not-for-profit sector who share a commitment to social justice. We are independent, but often work in collaboration with each other and with other consultants.

Betsy Kappel

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Its two principals are Betsy Kappel, MSW and Zubeida Ramji, BSN, MHSc.

Doug Kerr

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Doug Kerr is a trainer, facilitator and independent consultant to the nonprofit sector. He has over 15 years experience in nonprofit organizational development, social research, evaluation, governance and planning, with particular expertise around collaboration and network development. Doug also teaches a class in social justice issues at Centennial College in Toronto. Doug has experience in program development, organizational capacity building and planning at both United Way Toronto and Tides Canada Foundation.