Credentials & Experience

Extensive professional experience in:

• planning and chairing meetings of every size, from 3-500 people, including:
  • Annual General Meetings (AGMs)
  • board meetings
  • as a court-appointed chairperson
  • disciplinary hearings
• meeting Parliamentarian
• developing and managing executive boards
• drafting bylaws and amendments
• crafting written Parliamentary Opinions
• dispute resolution
  • informal resolution
  • mediation
  • arbitration

Margaret Ethier was President of the United Nurses of Alberta—an organization of 10,500 members with a 21 member executive board—for eight years. As President, she was involved in all aspects of labour relations, including grievance/arbitration, mediation, court procedures, acting as chief negotiator for province-wide bargaining, preparing press releases, and interacting with media at the local, national and international levels.

Since that time, she has provided consulting services to a variety of clients, including not-for profit organizations, unions, professional associations, condominium associations, and business corporations.

Margaret Ethier is appointed as a member of arbitration boards for labour disputes, and has also acted as an employees' advocate in situations involving workplace abuse, employment contracts, and professional matters.

Margaret has chaired meetings and events ranging in size from 3 to 500 members, including disciplinary hearings, Annual General Meetings, complex Bylaws revision meetings, and contentious meetings, including those that challenge the Officers/Executive board.

Creative, procedurally correct solutions that treat all parties fairly.

Margaret's focus as a facilitator is to look for creative, procedurally correct solutions that treat all parties fairly. Clients find her fair, approachable, and flexible, yet skilled at moving towards a productive outcome.

Margaret Ethier is a member of:

• Alberta Arbitration & Mediation Society
• ADR Institute of Canada Inc.
• Alberta Association Procedural & Registered Procedural Parliamentarians
• Canadian Federation of Procedural Parliamentarians
• American Institute of Parliamentarians

Margaret Ethier provides services in the following geographic areas:

• British Columbia (B.C.)
• Alberta
• Saskatchewan
• Manitoba
• Ontario
• Quebec
• Newfoundland & Labrador
• New Brunswick
• Nova Scotia
• P.E.I.
• Yukon
• Northwest Territories (NT), and Nunavut
• within the United States by special arrangement

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