Maggie Milne

Maggie Milne is the “Idea Sculptor”:   Keynote Speaker, Master Coach, Facilitator, M.C., writer.  

Strategic Systems Thinking & Originality - Getting Out of Stuck, Bogged and Muddled - as an Organization or as an Individual 

Maggie is known for her expertise as a seasoned speaker who relies on more than theory to get her point across.  Her firm has a reputation for zealous, interactive high content programmes with a twist of ingenuity.  Maggie has developed stimulating connections with audiences in the mudhuts of Ghana and executive boardrooms in Canada and Australia. 

Most Requested Programmes:

• The Strategy of Strategy
• Creative Confessions:  From Vulnerable to Valuable
• Decisions for Leadership: Another Day, Another Dilemma
• Master of Ceremonies: The Ultimate How To

Maggie has been the Atlantic Speakers Bureau’s  “Consummate Speaker of the Year”.    Northern Ontario Business magazine chose her as one of the north’s “Most Influential Women”: in May 2001, Maggie was honoured for “demonstrating phenomenal influence as an inspiration to others in Northern Ontario.”  In April 2002, she received the  “Outstanding Mentor” award from the Young Entrepreneurs of Canada. In 2004, she received the “Amplifying the Thunder Award” from the Thundering Women Festival. In 2005 she was awarded “Business of the Year” by PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise.  In March 2006, the Thunder Bay Business Women’s Network awarded her their first Lifetime Membership Award.  

Maggie is certified with the Herrmann Brain Dominance Institute (Whole Brain Thinking and Facilitating), as well as training in Learning Organizations (Nevis, Dibella and Gould) at Harvard. She has studied creativity at the Boston School of Fine Arts, the Monroe Institute and Banff School of Management.  Her interest in professional development led to receiving her Masters in Coaching in San Diego California (2004).  She was first certified as a coach in 1989.  She is a regular at the Maui Writers’ Conference.  In the spring of 2007, she will study with Byron Katie for her certification in doing “The Work”. 

Maggie is a founding Director of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and a member of the International Federation and NSA (1991).  She is honoured to be the creator of the Master of Ceremonies professional development program for CAPS and NSA chapters.  Watch for her at CAPS 2007 Halifax!

She holds membership in the International Coach Federation as well as the International Association of Facilitators, Chamber of Commerce, and a founding Champion of Leadership Thunder Bay. Her claim to fame is her ability to jump in with both feet while simply grabbing others with her enthusiasm.  She has a long list of “firsts”:  first female to be hired on contract with the Canadian Grain Elevators; founding Executive Director of the Multicultural Association of Northwestern Ontario, and the Ontario Prevention Network. Editor of “Rural Connections”, and a wedding and funeral photographer with her parent’s family business.   Maggie has never been traditional and she has never stood still! 

Her work on leadership is included in the anthology, The Master’s Collection: Executive Insights for Global Leadership.  Her column, Creative Confessions appears in MidWest Edge and Transforming Boundaries magazines.  Her new book, “Creative Confessions, from Vulnerable to Valuable” highlights the paths of northern women entrepreneurs, and is due to be released in early 2007.

Maggie is funny, realistic, connected and spirited, and definitely original!