Key Question

How can industry and Parks Canada work collaboratively to conserve grizzly bears in Banff National Park?

Solution

  • Working with executives within Parks Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway and the Nature Conservancy of Canada, I designed a public/private/philanthropic partnership. This included development of a governance structure, program scope, delivery plans, roadmaps, and risk and dependency management strategies for the program.
  • I provided project management coaching, mentoring, and guidance across five projects within the program.
  • I implemented and monitored execution of program, including managing program changes and identifying and mitigating risks.

Situation

In 2010, Canadian Pacific and Parks Canada joined forces to support research to reduce grizzly bear mortalities on the railway through Banff National Park. To achieve this goal they needed to determine the goals of the program and key requirements, and then design and implement a program to achieve the goals.

Services

Defining program goals, program design, implementation and monitoring

Benefits

  • Focused all organizations on a common goal – successful development of program designed to identify solutions to bear-train collisions
  • Increased efficiency and reduced risks of program failure for all collaborating organizations
  • I cut across organization and functional silos to achieve collaboration.
  • I proactively monitored critical success factors and dependencies to enable timely mitigation of challenges and issues across the program.
  • Strengthened delivery team project management capacity and ensured adoption of best practices to achieve the best possible project outcomes

Testimonial

Between 2010 and 2016 Canadian Pacific and Parks Canada joined forces to support research to reduce grizzly bear mortalities on the railway through Banff National Park. Kris worked on behalf of the two organizations to build a science-based, independent, public-private-philanthropic research program that met the requirements of both organizations. She skillfully engaged the necessary people at CP, Parks Canada, universities and not-for-profit partners and her professional leadership saved both organizations time, money and lots of headaches.
Ken Roberge, Former Manager, Environment & Regulatory
Canadian Pacific Railway