Canadian Centre for Leadership and Strategy
32 Victor Avenue
Toronto, ON, M4K 1A8
CANADA
Tel: (416) 463 0423
Fax: (416) 463 7827
E-mail: KenShepard@CanadianCentre.com
Web Page: http://www.CanadianCentre.com

Ken Shepard is a consultant supporting senior executives in strategy formulation, organization design, and strategy implementation.

Services include:
• coaching to leaders,
• top management team building,
• strategic planning,
• organizational design,
• major cultural change, and
• senior management development and work conferences.

Experience in supporting strategic planning

Dr. Shepard's primary consulting focus is to support public sector and not-for-profit executives to plan and manage their strategic tasks.

• Master of city planning degree and advanced graduate studies in regional science and regional resource development.
• Five years as a senior manager in a large regional planning agency coordinating complex development issues among various councils, committees and boards.
• Senior planner for a world's fair effort in Philadelphia working to build consensus in a racially charged environment.
• A doctorate in management specializing in planning models, futures methodology and effective accountability and participation processes.
• Seven years experience in designing and facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue and planning on contentious social, economic, and environmental issues. This involved designing constructive dialogue and planning processes to bring together strong special interest groups who often used power and threats in difficult situations.
• Fifteen years experience in designing and facilitating strategic planning processes for federal, provincial agencies and crown corporations and non-profits across Canada.
• Extensive experience in working with federal and provincial deputy ministers and their management teams of assistant deputy ministers and with not-for-profit boards and CEO's.

Advanced skill in:

• Assessing and improving planning systems.
• Designing and facilitating planning processes including large scale planning meetings.
• Data collection including interviewing, focus groups, surveys and critical review of reports.
• Developing and using effective templates and wall graphics for effective systems thinking.
• Skills in value assessment, clarification, and reconciliation of competing values. (Use of Charles Hampden-Turner's theories on reconciling competing values as developed at the Niagara Institute)
• Experience in the Carver governance model assisting non-profit boards in revising their roles and processes.

Ken's practice is largely based on Requisite Organization concepts developed by Elliott Jaques.

He is Principal with the Canadian Centre for Leadership and Strategy and an associate of the New Management Network. Affiliated with the Niagara Institute since 1981, he has worked with CEO's, Deputy Ministers, and seconds-in-command responsible for major change projects in Canada.

Ken has held management positions in business, government, and not-for- profit sectors. He has also served as Assistant Professor at three universities.

Ken earned his doctorate in management from the University of California at Los Angeles.