Laureen is currently working for the Association for Mineral Exploration BC.

 

Laureen has provided strategic planning, community/aboriginal relations, and project management services to organizations such as Brookfield Renewable Power, Terrane Metals, BC Ferry Services, Vancouver Port Authority, Minerva Foundation for BC Women, BC Transmission Corporation, Terasen Gas/Kinder Morgan, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business and taught organizational development and strategic planning courses for BCIT. She is author of the publication, Making the Grade: A Guide to Success in Corporate Aboriginal Partnerships.

Prior to independent consulting, Laureen successfully led a professional staff to assist in the establishment of Spectra Energy (formerly Duke Energy) as an innovative leader in focused community engagement initiatives. These included an award-winning Aboriginal strategy entitled Sharing a Vision; a leading strategic philanthropy program; and Northern Opportunities, a major trades education program that has created a seamless ‘regional campus’ across northeastern British Columbia.

Laureen received a Master of Arts in Public Policy and Business Administration from the University of Calgary, and has obtained a Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from Boston College. She is an advisor to the Community Development Education Program of the Social Planning and Research Council of BC, serves on the Muskwa-Kechika Advisory Board, leads the Curriculum Group for Minerva Foundation’s Aboriginal ‘Learning to Lead’ program, and is former chair of the Aboriginal Relations Committee of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association.