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Parker: Former CBE trustee Sheila Taylor to lead Parks Foundation Calgary

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Myrna Dubé’s retirement, while a shock to some, was well deserved. She not only led Parks Foundation Calgary during the past decade, but showed her passion for this city in so many areas.

At Calgary International Airport, Dubé moved from executive secretary to director of corporate and community relations, where she pushed to build the best-looking baggage carousels at any airport. She also worked with Parks Foundation Calgary and Rotary clubs to develop Calgary Rotary Challenger Park, the barrier-free recreational facility built on airport land.

The PFC board, under new chairman Don Baird, has chosen former Calgary Board of Education trustee Sheila Taylor its new executive director.

Born and educated in Edmonton where she earned a business degree at the University of Alberta, Taylor joined Imperial Oil after graduation. She worked in the company’s offices in Edmonton, Vancouver and Toronto, mostly in sales and marketing.

Transferred by Imperial to Calgary, she worked for the company as a senior financial analyst and later on managed the sales staff at Yellow Pages Group.

After the birth of her second child, Taylor spent more time volunteering with the Lake Bonavista Community Association, becoming president in 2013. She was elected to the CBE board (Wards 11 and 13) in 2010 but later resigned to seek the Wildrose nomination in the October 2014 byelection in the riding of Calgary-West. (Taylor lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Mike Ellis).

She returned to work as general manager at Quattro Energy Services, but the pull of public service remained strong.

It’s an exciting time to lead Parks Foundation Calgary as it prepares to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary with events around the completion of the Rotary/Mattamy Greenway, the 138 kilometres of pathways and natural wetland areas that encircle the city.

Its work includes managing more than 1,000 park dedication benches across the city and a grant program that has distributed more than $10 million to amateur sport through its partnership with the Calgary Flames and Saddledome Foundation.

The foundation’s newest venture is the Manmeet Singh Bhullar Memorial Park at the end of 64th Avenue N.E.. It’s raising funds for the project with the aim of starting construction later this year.

News and notes

  • Haskayne School of Business students have won a global-level Innovation Olympics consulting competition. The strong field included students from Stanford, INSEAD (France), Northwestern, the Asian Institute of Management (Philippines) and Erasmus University (Netherlands). The eight-week virtual competition focused on growing the profitability of Ayala, the largest company in the Philippines.

Haskayne students, led by faculty advisor Bob Schulz, have won 88 national-level case competitions and more than 20 international podium awards.

 

  • A long-term partnership between Calgary-based Conroy Ross Partners and Eastern-based Optimum Talent has been formalized with the acquisition of the Calgary firm by Optimum Talent, creating the largest Canadian-owned provider of retained search, leadership development and career transition services.

Conroy Ross was founded in 1994 by Jim Conroy who brought on Mike Ross as a partner in 2002. The national Optimum Talent team now includes 200 professionals operating out of 15 offices across the country.

David Parker appears regularly in the Herald. Read his columns online at calgaryherald.com/business. He can be reached at 403-830-4622 or by email at info@davidparker.ca.


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