Congratulations to Calgary's Pathways Leaders!

Mayor Stephen Mandel - City of Edmonton

Serving Alberta’s Capital City for a third term, Mayor Stephen Mandel has led the City of Edmonton since October 2004.  Mayor Mandel is a strong advocate for Alberta municipalities, ensuring they receive a fair share of funding to pay for vital infrastructure and community services. His bold vision to improve the integration of services in the Edmonton region encouraged the Province to create a new governance body responsible for building a more effective regional plan. Mayor Mandel also celebrates Edmonton’s arts community and multiculturalism as great strengths of our City and his inclusive vision reflects Edmonton’s our vast energy and character. He is a strong advocate and voice for low-income families, seniors and those in need. As Mayor, Stephen is a steadfast steward of numerous green initiatives and remains committed to preserving Edmonton's reputation as a global environmental leader. He has been married to wife Lynn for 39 years. They have two grown children and one beloved grandchild.

Hunter Lovins - Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS)

NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading thinkers and implementers, NCS creates innovative practical tools and strategies to enable companies, communities, and countries to become more sustainable.

Trained as a sociologist and lawyer (JD), Hunter is also currently a professor of sustainable business management at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Bard College, and Denver University; and the chief insurgent of the Madrone Project. More....

Mayor Naheed Nenshi - City of Calgary

Mayor Naheed Nenshi is a passionate Calgarian, an accomplished business professional, and an active community leader. During his first term in office, Mayor Nenshi’s leadership has already resulted in many positive changes in Calgary to build better communities, keep Calgarians moving, and transform government to reinforce a culture of constant citizen-focused improvement at The City of Calgary.  His real passion is to make cities, especially Calgary, work better. He's the lead author of Building Up: Making Canada's Cities Magnets for Talent and Engines of Development and has long put his ideas to work in Calgary. Mayor Nenshi grew up in Calgary and has lived and worked in cities around the world before returning home. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (with distinction) from the University of Calgary and a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he studied as a Kennedy Fellow. More...

Andy Ellis - Senior Vice-President, Supply Chain and Logistics for Walmart Canada.

In this capacity, Andy holds operating responsibility over Walmart Canada’s domestic logistics system as well as for its global supply chain network.  In the 1990s, Andy transferred within ASDA to work at head office where he took the General Manager position in replenishment, merchandising and logistics. In 2004, he became ASDA’s Director of Supply Chain. He assumed his current position with Walmart Canada in 2008.

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Toby Heaps - President Corporate Knights

Toby is the president and co-founder of Corporate Knights. He is a current board member of Friends of the Earth Canada and chairman of E3 Canadian Roundtables, a series of roundtables to define a Canadian energy strategy that will catalyze the country’s clean energy superpower potential. He spearheaded the first global ranking of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations in 2005. The rankings are now an annual staple of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and have also been published by Newsweek, BusinessWeek and Forbes. He has been published in the Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Toronto Star, and is a regular guest speaker on CBC. Toby is committed to cleaning up capitalism with practical tools, intelligence, and insights so that markets work to make the world a better place. More....

Michelle Colussi - Community Systems & Renewal

Trained as a teacher, she has worked for over 25 years delivering and facilitating organizational development, strategic planning and community economic development processes and workshops in communities, NGO’s, First Nations and a variety of citizen stakeholder groups.  Michelle also brings specific experience in community organizing and development in the fields of youth justice, mental health, the arts and social enterprise.  She was a team lead in the design and delivery of the Community Resilience Manual, which she has applied in multiple rural settings and adapted and piloted in an urban neighbourhood.  She is currently the lead Canadian trainer, and co-ordinator of the Transition (Town) Training Network in Canada, and a founding member of Transition Victoria. More...

Mayor Moe Hamdon -Town of Drayton Valley

Moe Hamdon has lived in Drayton Valley since moving to the community with his family at the age of four.  His parents owned the local grocery store and, at an early age, Moe learned the value of hard work and honesty while working in the store. After graduating from university Moe returned to Drayton Valley where the same values he learned as a child led him to a seat on town council while he was still in his twenties. He has served in local government, first as councilor and then as Mayor of Drayton Valley, for 18 years.  During his four terms as Mayor, Moe has presided over a period of tremendous growth and prosperity for the town and has helped shape Drayton Valley into a modern, progressive and dynamic community. A recent success is the Sustainability Plan which received an award from FCM. More...

Robert Bean - Principles of Energy Appropriateness

Robert Bean is a graduate of the Building Construction Engineering Technology program from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology; a Registered Engineering Technologist holding membership with the Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta as well as a Professional Licensee (Engineering) holding membership with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. He is a two term ASHRAE Distinguished lecturer, recent recipient of ASHRAE’s Lou Flagg Award and ongoing member of ASHRAE Technical Committees: 6.1, 6.5, 7.04 and SSPC 55; and is the current User Manual and Short Course Task Leader for ANSI/ASHRAE 55 – Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy. His specialties include energy, indoor climate engineering and radiant based HVAC systems. More...

Lloyd Alter - Heritage Urbanism

Lloyd Alter is editor of architecture and design at TreeHugger.com, the "world's largest green lifestyle website." He has worked as an architect, a real estate developer and an entrepreneur in prefabricated housing. He teaches sustainable design at the Ryerson University School of Interior Design and is Past President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. His writing has been published in Azure, Greensource, Corporate Knights and Ontario Nature Magazines. 

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