Project management consulting and training for social change organisations.
The 2005 Showcase Ontario Awards are coming up, and I've been invited to help identify the 4 finalists. These awards are great — not just because they recognize and celebrate innovation and project team effectiveness, but because they raise awareness of voluntary sector-led technology projects. The winner in the voluntary sector category last year was Shelternet — be sure to check out the awards celebration on September 20 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (south building) to find out who the winner is this year!
Back in February of this year, I was invited to sit on the advisory committee for a program developed by the Learning Enrichment Foundation (in partnership with the Information Technology Association of Canada, Ajilon Consulting and Outset Consulting) to provide project management training for foreign-trained IT professionals. It's an amazing program — designed to help participants develop their English language proficiency and cultural skills, prepare for project management certification through the Project Management Institute, and obtain direct, North American workplace experience, the program also exposes participants to the importance of the voluntary sector — following a six week classroom-based course in project management, participants are placed within not-for-profit organizations and given the opportunity to apply their training to the management of open source software development projects.
For the second session of the program, I've been asked to provide coaching and support to students of the program as well as LEF staff — today was the first day, and it was great.
I'm very excited to be working with you, Margarida and Shawn, and with each of the 23 program participants :)
