Keynote Speakers

It’s time… will mean a different thing to every member. We all agree that it is time for Landscape Architects to be involved in the solutions for a better world and society…. But how do we get there? How does change happen and how can we as a professional learn to be better leaders with the outcome of putting Landscape Architects in the centre of the changes we all want to see.

3 Canadians – 3 Canadian stories

Papers & Panels Overview

Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Landscape of Change and Leadership

What is change? How does it happen? What skills to we need to make it happen?

Don Hill

Don Hill is one of Canada’s leading professionals in the field of leadership development. Actively involved in the media, he has been described as a left of centre commentator who makes life more interesting and exciting has been described as liking “to stir the pot!”

A former host of CBC Radio’s Tapestry, Radio One and Canada International, his departure from the CBC was not without controversy. Don also created and hosted “Inspiring Leadership”, a CKUA twenty-part documentary series on the challenges of leadership in the 20th century. He is currently working on a new series on “sustainability” in the fullest sense.

Don will open the Congress with an interactive keynote focused on leadership development.

Friday, August 20, 2010

The Political Landscape of Canada

What are the political barriers to change and better ways of doing things? What should we be doing politically to see the changes we all believe in?

Andrew Coyne

Andrew Coyne is the national editor of Maclean’s – one of Canadian journalism’s most prestigious and influential positions. An original member of The National Post, where he was their national affairs columnist, Coyne has established himself over the last two decades as one of this country’s most thoughtful, passionate and articulate commentators on political and economic issues.

Andrew has been an editorial writer, columnist and contributor for the Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, Saturday Night, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. He has won numerous awards and is also a member of the “At Issue” Panel on CBC’s “The National”

“At Issue” Panel

What are YOUR issues? Andrew Coyne and 3 other panelist will respond to YOUR issues?

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Simon Jackson

Change is possible – Somebody at the age of 13 knew it was!

Simon Jackson has always believed in the power of one. At the age of 13, he heard about North America’s rarest bear – the white Kermode or spirit bear – and the plans to develop their last intact habitat on British Columbia’s central coast. He knew he had to help.

Jackson founded the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition – one of the world’s first all youth-run organizations and the first involved in this issue – with the hope of creating a new type of environmental advocacy group. On April 4th, 2001, at the age of 18, Jackson’s Youth Coalition helped create an historic land-use agreement with logging companies, First Nations, all levels of government, and environmental groups to create a framework for sustainability on the BC coast. The agreement helped protect half and defer development in the other half of the spirit bear’s last intact habitat and went on to look at the entire BC coast. It resulted in the largest land protection measure in the history of North America.

The Youth Coalition into the world’s largest youth-led environmental movement with a global network of more than 6 million in over 70 countries.

Simon will walk us through his change process – the story of his life!