Robert Laurence (Bob) Ascah was born in Lachine, Quebec and received degrees in Commerce and Public Administration (M.A) from Carleton University. He completed his doctorate in political science at the University of Alberta in 1984.

Before his appointment as Director of the Institute for Public Economics, he worked for the Alberta public service. After a short stint in Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs, he joined Alberta Treasury where he was responsible for financial sector policy, foreign borrowing, and liaison with ratings agencies. In 1996, he joined Alberta Treasury Branches (ATB Financial) as Secretary to the Board. Subsequently, Dr. Ascah was responsible for business planning, economics and government relations. In that capacity, Ascah was a frequent speaker on economics and financial institutions policy. He retired from ATB Financial in May 2009.

Bob Ascah is Chair, Canadian Cancer Society, Alberta/NWT Division and is the academic liaison for the Edmonton Regional Group of the Institute for Public Administration of Canada. In 1999, the University of Alberta Press published Ascah’s Ph.D. dissertation Politics and Public Debt- The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta’s Social Credit.

Since joining the Parkland Institute, he has become a frequent media commentator on financial and economic issues. He is currently Program Chair with the Economics Society of Northern Alberta and Principal of his company Abpolecon.ca

You can find Bob’s blogsite at Abpolecon.ca

Associate Broker / Realtor at RIGHT Real Estate
Gordon Edmistion, BA, ABR, RENE, SRS, is a licensed Realtor in the province of Alberta working in residential, commercial and rural property sales and leasing in the Greater Edmonton Area. Having worked with clients and developers for 19+ years in full time sales of new and used properties.

RIGHT Real Estate is an Edmonton based real estate brokerage specializing in residential real estate.  Previously as CondoCrew we established ourselves as Edmonton’s premier condo specialized real estate brokerage that was established in 2004 to satisfy the escalating need for condo specialization in the real estate industry. However, as the real estate market and clientele is ever changing, we wanted to diversify to better serve ALL of your real estate needs.  All of our REALTORS® are full time professionals trading in new and used real estate.

Our mission is to always be striving for excellence, providing an outstanding level of service and ultimately becoming the first choice for all of your real estate sales and purchases in the Greater Edmonton Area.

Contact Gordon at:
Website: http://rightrealestate.ca/
Email: gordonedmiston@alain

David was one of those geeky math nerd kids who had the good fortune of being a hard-worker who saved his money, and who, becoming a teenager in the early 1980s, could afford to buy a personal computer.

He started this company back in 1996, back when Apple was doomed, and a googol was just a very large number.

Since that time, David’s company has successfully pivoted from being an internet service provider, to a web hosting company, to web site developers, to a custom web application development company, where David, and his team of permanent, full-time employees, have always had a focus on customer service.

David’s experience in technology and business has helped him acquire a keen ability to deconstruct systems, see optimizations, and establish clear communications between his clients and his technical team.

Here’s a bit about David’s company:

Arrai Innovations is an Edmonton internet services company that was formed in 1996, and specializes in creating purpose-built web databases and information management systems for our wide variety of clients across North America.
You can reach David at:

https://www.arrai.com/

Lloyd graduated from the School of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan in 1963.  He was subsequently employed for 35 years by a major Western Canadian manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing organization.  His various responsibilities through several different positions included sales, marketing, operations, facility development, recruitment, hiring and monitoring.

During his career, he attended numerous courses, seminars and workshops on a wide variety of topics.  However, a seminar/workshop on “Performance Planning and Review” was by far the most valuable in improving management skills.

Following retirement in 1998, he assisted some small businesses relative to Job Descriptions and Performance Appraisals.  Those projects, along with other business contacts, led him to conclude that few small to medium-sized businesses and organizations have implemented the kinds of programs he had been using to great advantage for more than 20 years. The primary client target was those with fewer than 100 employees. There is an obvious need for such a program, so he began developing a Performance Management Package adapted to the requirements of those businesses and organizations. His business, Callcraft Consulting, had a simple objective – help improve productivity and employee job satisfaction to contribute to overall efficiency and profitability.

The program now being used in his work with a wide range of employers is based on practical, proven methods to improve productivity by having businesses meet their objectives through employees meeting their individual objectives.  This is achieved through Job Descriptions, Orientation Checklists, Workplans, Appraisals, Employee Career Plans and the associated forms, worksheets and guidelines.

Starting in 2004, Lloyd teamed with Darel Baker from Keldar Leadership to conduct a series of one-day seminars and workshops on Recruitment, Hiring and Performance Management to many business and organization owners and managers. Included in these sessions was an introduction to Lloyd’s “Hire for HIPPA, Train for Skill” concept, which illustrates the importance of emphasizing personal attributes in the hiring process. Please see the overview under Seminars and Workshops.

For moire information see About Lloyd Kenney – Performance Management

You can contact Lloyd at callcraft@shaw.ca