Professional Development Seminar
TOPICS
1. Defining Project Management Scope
2. Lookout Housing and Health Society
3. Certified Property Manager
AGENDA
| 10:00 am |
Welcome Remarks
- Mercedes Wong, President, PICPA Vancouver
- Introduction of Speaker
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| 10:05 - 11:00 am |
Presentation 1: Defining Project Management Scope
A discussion of the challenges that come with managing and coordinating projects both within and outside First Nations/Indigenous realms.
- Speaker: Colin Sanderson
Manager, Luma Native Housing Society
Sanderson Consulting
- Q & A
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| 11:00 - 11:05 am |
Break |
| 11:05 am - 12:00 pm |
Presentations 2: Property Management in the Non-Profit Section
1. Property Management & Self-care During / Post COVID-19
2. What is a Certified Property Manager (CPM) and how to become one.
- Speaker: Christine Williams
Project Manager, Fraser Region, Lookout Housing and Health Society
President, Real Estate Institute of Canada, Vancouver Chapter
- Q & A
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| 12:00 pm |
Closing Remarks |
Speaker Bios
Colin Sanderson
Manager, Luma Native Housing Society
Sanderson Consulting
Father is an Ojibwe – Metis from his father and English from his mother. Born and raised in the land of the Red River, commonly known as Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Colin has accomplished a few degrees from public institutions such as: Institute of Indigenous Government, University of Winnipeg, Douglas College and working on another with Vancouver Community College.
Colin has spent over 20 years working with Indigenous organizations across Canada in the realm of Economic Development. In that 20 years Colin has volunteered his time with board memberships in non-profit governance as well as the arts and public education.
Colin’s twenty five year background in Project Management is inclusive to the design, development and implementation of provincial and national conferences; managing provincial wide Apprenticeship Programs; social housing development projects; and he is currently managing a national tele-communications program.
Christine Williams
President, Real Estate Institute of Canada, Vancouver Chapter
Property Manager, Fraser Region, Lookout Housing and Health Society
Christine Williams is Lookout Housing and Health Society’s Fraser region Property Manager. Christine has been working in the non-profit sector for over 12 years and is a Certified Property Manager and current board member of the real-estate institute of Canada.
Her role allows her to not only oversee the facility’s Lookout operates but offer support to both staff and the various people they serve. Christine is driven by her passion to insure everyone has a place to go when in need and with support a safe place they can call home. Building strong relationships has been the key to her success.
Outside of her work Christine likes to spend time with her husband and her two dogs going for long walks by the river and curling up with a good book.