Bill Cogan

Bill Cogan’s list of accomplishments are impressive. Over 30 years of global management consulting expertise, and an impressive list of organizations that include pharmaceuticals, electronics, engineering, the retail sector, financial, community-based organizations, education, and professional sports.

Bill has been associated with Bausch and Lomb, Coca Cola, Scottish Power, Northern Ireland Public Organizations, Digital, Hi Chem USA, and Glasgow Local Economic Development Consortia to name a few. Bill is also a sports industry expert, with recent credits that include the Galway Senior Football Team (All Ireland Champions, 1999) and Ian McLeod, I.B.O. Intercontinental Super Featherweight Champion

Bill has lived and worked in Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Puerto Rico, the United States, and Canada.

Karen MacKinnon

Karen MacKinnon has an MBA in Management and a proven track record delivering sound management guidance and support. Karen is a skilled communicator, proven leader and an empowering coach. She is a highly respected authority on strategic alliances, internal venturing, organizational change and development, diversification, global strategies, strategic planning, as well as the building of learning organizations. She has dealt with government budget cuts where she participated in planning, managing and coping with the aftermath of multiple waves of change.

She has sat on the boards of the United Way Cabinet, Capital City Region and the Canadian Professional Sales Association. She is a member of Rotary International as well as Western Marketing Educators’ Association and the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce.

With an open consultative style and an ability to transform complex issues into simple common sense terms, Karen has facilitated partnerships between the public and private sectors, locally, nationally and internationally. Her international partnership experience includes Eastern Europe, Africa, and the United States.

Some see things as they are and ask, ‘why?’ I dream things that never were and ask, ‘why not?’ – Robert Francis Kennedy