Dal Brodhead

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.