Dal Brodhead
Principal and Chief Executive Officer

Dal Brodhead is Principal and the Chief
Executive Officer of the New Economy Development
Group Inc. He is also a Principal and Senior
Associate of E.T. Jackson and Associates Ltd.
Mr. Brodhead has been involved in international
and national development since 1978. He has held
senior posts in various federal departments, and
he directed a national research project on
regional development for the Economic Council of
Canada. Internationally, he served as a project
manager for CIDA's largest micro-credit project
worldwide, as well as leading evaluation and
monitoring missions in a number of countries. He
is able to work in both English and French.
Mr. Brodhead presently manages a portfolio of
consulting projects in Canada in the fields of
community economic and rural development,
citizen engagement, and participatory
evaluation. In addition, he is a frequent
facilitator specializing in organizational
capacity building, community-driven initiatives
and Board development. He has written, lectured,
and provided technical assistance in the
community economic development field. He also
has extensive experience working with
Aboriginal, rural and northern communities in
Canada. He is an advisor and mentor to the
Vibrant Communities Initiative of the Tamarack
Institute and he was a technical assistance
provider for the Community Economic Development
Technical Assistance Program based at Carleton
University.
Mr. Brodhead has developed expertise in the
following areas:
- Strategic planning, facilitation and public
policy development;
- Organizational and Board development and
revitalization;
- Program review/assessment and project
evaluation;
- Community-driven development and
capacity-building;
- Social economy, community economic
development & micro-credit; and
- Project design, management and research.