Beverly Yee

Saturday, January 30, at 4p.m. in Bronfman 046

Beverly Yee is the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of Environmental Stewardship for Alberta’s Ministry of Environment.  Alberta is in the process of adopting a new cumulative effects management approach to managing the environment. Beverly is currently leading the organizational transformation process to make that change.

Beverly’s areas of responsibility include external relations, conservation and education, environmental strategies and trans-boundary water policy.  In the area of strategic policy, Beverly has led the development of Alberta’s Water for Life strategy and Alberta’s Climate Change Strategy.

Since joining Alberta Environment in 1994, she has held a number of executive management positions and was previously ADM for Environmental Assurance.

Title of Talk: Building Momentum for Meaningful Change

All sectors, whether public or private, are facing the challenge of addressing sustainability in a meaningful way. Leading and managing organizational change is a matter of the head, hands and heart. In other words, catalyzing change means having a thoughtful, smart vision (head) that leads to real, practical action (hands) and engages the passion of people to make change (heart). Marshall McLuhan said in 1964, “there are no passengers on spaceship earth, we are all crew.” Building momentum for meaningful change towards sustainability challenges us all to embrace our role as “crew members”.