"The BVI is a great tool & process. We need to have more people working with CIEL's tools to further Community and Economic Development in Canada."
- Hélène Deslauriers
Director General, Réseau des SADC in Quebec (Alliance of 63 SADCs)
Canadian Representative on the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) Forum on Partnerships
“Process was dynamic & engaged the community”
- Rami Rothkop
Harrop Procter Community Forest Co-op, BC
Nelsonite to Share Knowledge and Expertise Down Under
Nelson, B.C. - They're wondering how we do it here down under.
Nelson’s Mike Stolte is leaving next week for a five city tour of Australia, highlighting
experiences from Canadian communities, and strategic tools that his organization, the
Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL), has developed. The
seventeen day tour will see Stolte teamed up with Clare Wastenays, a community economic development (CED) specialist with the Government of Ontario and Peter Kenyon, an Australian who works around the world helping rural communities become
more innovative and entrepreneurial.
Landing in Sydney, the trio will provide workshops in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, and
two rural communities as well as touring projects and innovative approaches used in many
rural Australian communities.
The tour is being organized by Kenyon’s organization, the Bank of I.D.E.A.S.
(http://www.bankofideas.com.au/), based in Perth, Australia.
Stolte met Kenyon at the Ontario Rural Conference last year where both men were
presenting on the theme of community innovation and vitality as a necessity for 21st
century rural survival. They are both scheduled to speak at the Business Retention and
Expansion International (BREI) conference later this year in Regina, Saskatchewan.
“This is a good opportunity for learning on both continents,” says Stolte, who has now
presented CIEL’s strategic approaches to economic and community development -
including the Business Vitality Initiative and the Community Vitality Initiatives – at a
dozen national conferences.
CIEL, with offices in Nelson and Victoria, now employs five staff and several contractors
and does work across Canada. Stolte is President-elect of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF) and sits on the steering committee of the National Rural Research Network (NRRN).
For more information contact:
Mike Stolte
Executive Director, Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL)
www.theCIEL.com
1-250-352-1933 extension 106
1-800-661-1395 extension 106
mstolte@theCIEL.com
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