Hilary Pearson’s twenty-year career has spanned all three sectors, public, private and not-for-profit. She has extensive experience in the federal public sector where she worked for over 12 years as a policy analyst and senior manager. Moving to Montréal in 1993, Ms. Pearson became Vice-President of Strategic Development at Royal Bank of Canada. In 1996, she became a management consultant. Working with a wide range of clients, from national membership organizations and operating charities to local organizations in the health, cultural and social services field, she provided services ranging from Board retreat facilitation, through strategic planning, to program evaluation and organizational development. In November 2001, she was named President of Philanthropic Foundations Canada, a national member association for Canada's independent and family foundations based in Montréal.
Ms. Pearson holds a BA and an MA in Political Economy from the University of Toronto, and an Executive Management Certificate from the Faculty of Management at McGill University.
Liza Goulet, Director, Research and Member Services lgoulet@pfc.ca
Liza Goulet worked for over fifteen years as a consultant specializing in children’s rights and healthy child development in the voluntary sector, as well as with governments in Canada and internationally. She developed a number of tools and publications on children’s rights, including a university level course on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. For six years, Ms. Goulet managed the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, a national member-based association of organizations in the voluntary sector. She joined Philanthropic Foundations Canada in 2002.
Ms. Goulet holds a BA Honours in Communications as well as a graduate diploma in International Development and Cooperation from the University of Ottawa. She completed doctoral level courses in children's rights and child development at the University of Victoria.
Micheline Parent joined Philanthropic Foundations Canada in October 2002. She worked with the Business Families Foundation (BFF) in Montréal for four years as an administrative secretary. BFF is a non-profit organization offering families in business, and the professionals working with them, guidance on managing family businesses. She has considerable experience in administration and office management, having spent 18 years working as an administrative assistant at an oil company.