Elise is a community builder, strategist, and diversity advocate.
With nearly a decade of expertise in design and implementation of diversity and inclusion programming, strategic planning and training, Elise will provide tangible value in her high-energy speaking engagement, training sessions or strategic plans to meet your organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion needs.
Elise is educated in Law and Justice, International Relations, Change Management and is currently pursuing her MBA in Strategy. She is also educated in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University.
As Principal and Inclusion Strategist for inclusion FACTOR – a consulting firm dedicated to providing measurable solutions for organizations in the areas of diversity, inclusion, cultural competency, leadership development, and organizational change management, she has designed, implemented and managed data-driven strategies to increase diversity, equity and inclusion for public and private sector-based clients in Canada and USA.
These strategies include training, program development/management, community consultations, speaking engagements, leadership succession and advisement planning, recruitment planning, and creating e-digital training tools. Elise positions her clients as innovators in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion through aligning their business objectives with measurable diversity, equity and inclusion strategies.
Her research and work findings have been presented at the Colleges and Institutes Canada’s 2016 Indigenous Education Symposium, 5th Annual Saskatchewan Communications Forum, Alberta Hate Crimes Committee’s 2018 StopHateAB Panel, Eighteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Nations and Communities at the University of Texas, 2018 Globalfest Human Rights Forum, the 2018 International Association for Women Police Conference, 2018 Alberta Recreations & Parks Association Conference & Energize Workshop among other local and international conferences.
Elise is actively involved in the community as Prairies Regional Director of Fierté Canada Pride — a national organization that represents Pride organizations across Canada and past Vice President of Calgary Pride. She is also a member of the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee, United Nations Association of Calgary, and Rainforest Alberta. Elise also serves as the founder for Innovate for Change – a charity that uses technology to combat poverty in rural communities of Ghana, West Africa.
