Meet our Team

He has held leadership positions including National Director, Executive Director, Program Director, Project Leader, Project Coordinator, and Project Manager. As an advocate for LGBTQIA2S+ rights, he has a lived professional and personal experience of equity, diversity, and inclusion. His work is informed by his professional and academic background, and he embeds JEDI – justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion values in his work by guiding frameworks, policies, strategies, and implementation of best practices.

With self-directed focus, integrity, and initiative, he wholeheartedly believes in participatory leadership and collaboration to create and effectively implement strategic improvements and sustainable futures. Supporting reconciliation, Michael has had the experience of facilitating the input Indigenous communities having worked with urban Indigenous people, the Haida and Carrier nations and he has had the privilege of living on reserve.

Michael has spent the last year working for NPower Canada as their National Director. He managed four regional offices, ten programs, five direct reports, and fifty-one staff across Canada. He was responsible for building and maintaining high-performing teams across programs, departments, and regions, upholding values of mutual respect, trust, accountability, integrity, and humility within and across program teams.

Prior to that he worked for two and half years as a Program Director at the Law Foundation of BC where he was a Program Director, working collaboratively to promote the goals of equality while working to support vulnerable, marginalized, and inequitably treated populations. He managed a portfolio for approximately $4 million in grants. Michael spent over ten years working for the government of BC initially as a Victim Services caseworker worker and then as a Project Analyst with Canada’s first Community Court. Before his career in government, Michael spent over twenty years working for non-profits both overseas and in Canada supporting community development, building capacity, and cross-cultural understanding.

Michael is an avid traveler, recently learning how to scuba dive to keep up with his husband and continues to try to learn Spanish. Michael’s mantra is “I want to be the change I seek in the world.”