CENTRE FOR ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Senior Leader
Keri Selkirk, MBA. Keri is a seasoned senior leader with a passion for strong governance and collaborative organizational cultures to support organizational and system improvements and change for the improved health and well-being of people and communities. Her areas of expertise include board development and governance, leadership and management development, strategic planning, enterprise risk management, organizational development and design, change management, business planning/proposal development, interim leadership, and transitional planning, management, coaching and support.
With over 20 years' experience in leadership in health and the not-for-profit field, Keri's background includes working with a National Health Charity, an Academic Health Sciences Centre, and 11 years building a large primary care organization that works with family physicians and allied health professionals to provide collaborative interdisciplinary care to 160,000 Ontarians.
Keri is a trained governance peer facilitator and experienced planner and implementer. Keri is proud to have participated in the education of the future leaders of our community as a lecturer at Western University, Health Sciences, sharing her experience and expertise in organizational management, and health system costs and challenges.
One of Keri's core values is engaging with other like-minded individuals and organizations to both give of her personal time in service, and to learn from others. She has engaged in this by previously Chairing the Family Selection and Support Committee at Habitat for Humanity Heartland, both ensuring committee functioning, and providing direct support to families through education sessions. She a is past-president of the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario - a young and growing organization when she joined it - providing leadership, direct operational support when needed and becoming a trained governance facilitator for the organization. She is a Public Appointments Member on the Council of the College of Registered Psychotherapists, has previously been a member of the Quality of Care Committee of St. Joseph's Healthcare London and is currently part of the Legal Aid Ontario Area Committee.
Keri holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph, a Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, a Master of Laws (Administrative focus) from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She has also received a Certificate in Adult Education from Seneca College in addition to numerous other professional development courses completed. Keri is truly committed to life-long learning!
Keri is passionate about travel and learning about the culture, history, and unique flora and fauna of other parts of the beautiful planet we live on together.
Maria Sánchez-Keane, M.Div., MBA is the founder of the Centre for Organizational Effectiveness. An international management consultant, trainer and facilitator since 2000, as well as having over 10 years of senior management experience in the non-profit sector, Maria's areas of expertise include systems, community and strategic planning, organizational development and change management, and program evaluation. In the context of today's rapidly changing environment, she has designed, facilitated and managed a wide variety of processes for systems, communities and organizations to increase their capacity and operate more effectively. Maria has also used her strong facilitation skills when working with groups experiencing challenges, including conflict, and has assisted in creating high-performance work groups.
By her work she aims to improve the health and well-being of people, particularly those most vulnerable and marginalized in society, through organizational, community and systems improvements and change.
Maria's systems, community and organizational background has given her clients the ability to develop strong implementation plans with clear performance measures, which effectively evaluate the success of initiatives undertaken. She has worked with various sized groups, from teams of three to organizations with thousands of employees across many communities. She has worked with community, organizational, municipal, provincial and national leaders.
Maria holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Divinity, which grounds her work. Her MBA research focus was on strategy, evaluation and scorecards. Maria's business approach is marked by the philosophy of creating working communities that are empowered to generate and implement strong strategic solutions.
For the past 15 years, Maria has facilitated a wide variety of systems and community planning tables to drive system and community improvements. Through her facilitation, the system has seen markedly improved access, coordination, integration and service delivery. As a result, resources are used more effectively.
Due to the varied groups with which Maria has worked, she brings with her an extensive facilitative background with a long list of varied approaches to working with communities and organizations, including appreciative inquiry, gaps analysis, community development, comparative analysis and risk assessments.
More importantly, Maria and her husband Dan have four children together - Monica, Daniel, Christina and Gabriella.
She is an avid runner, a passionate Colombian-Canadian, and a justice-focused, globally and community-minded optimist.
Job Titles:
- Junior Researcher
- Junior Research Associate
Monica Zea is a junior researcher who's work focuses primarily on survey design, assisting with research, and other administrative supports. She is currently in her last year as an Honours BA student at Brescia University College, Western University, with a specialization in Sociology and a minor in criminal justice.
In her spare time, she loves to read and create art pieces. She also enjoys spending time with her little family of four - her wonderful partner, Danny, her service dog, Trails, and her other puppy, Monkey