Professional Experience
I have a PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto and worked as an applied anthropologist for more than 30 years in government agencies and university settings. I authored numerous reports for government agencies and peer-reviewed articles. I was also the editor and author contributor to a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Native Studies (vol. 24, No. 1, 2004). I'm widely published in other journals, proceedings, and reports.
Since establishing The Write Edit Group in 2013, I've been a paid writer for government reports (e.g., PEI Business Women's Association project reports to Status of Women Canada), policies and procedures manuals, project manuals and guidelines, concept papers, B2B white papers, grant proposals, evaluation frameworks, and information kits and products. I've also ghost-written for numerous professionals, edited theses and dissertations and scholarly works, and helped scholars turn their theses or dissertations into books.
I've been professionally published by Athabasca University Press ("A Metaphoric Mind: Selected Writings of Joseph Couture," 2013; funded by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation), University of Lethbridge Press ("Health in Rural Settings," 1999), and by Island Studies Press (a book chapter in "From Black Horse to White Steed: Building Community Resiliency"). The latter publication was written under contract from the PEI Business Women's Association.
I'm writing and publishing a series of books and related information products on business mentoring for the solopreneur in The Business Mentoring Solution series. I've delivered numerous workshops and webinars on the topic of mentoring, most recently a series of three webinars for the International Mentoring Association.
I'm the lead editor for The Groundwater Project, a not-for-profit charity that publishes dozens of books annually that are written by groundwater sciences professionals and scholars--available free of charge to advance knowledge about and action on groundwater.
My areas of subject matter expertise are addictions, mental health, health, medical, federal corrections, violent extremism, Indigenous issues, gender, culture, mentoring, and business startup. Nonfiction only, please. I'm serious.
I'm enroute to certification by the federal government as a Practitioner in Workplace Skills for Success/Relational Skills training. My most recent book, "Civil@Work: Why Investing in Soft Skills is Essential for a 21st Century Business," will be published by the end of 2024.
I'm really pleased to share that my 2019 book, "Harness the Power of Mentoring: How to Find and Work with the Right Mentor--A Guide for the Solopreneur," was honoured as a Finalist in the 2019 International Book Awards and the 2019 Best Books Awards. I was also awarded a 2019 WISE 50 Over 50 award. My children's book ("A Girl, Her Mother, and the Forest: A Love Story") was a finalist in the 2021 PEI Literary Awards.
