Engagements are listed in sequence by starting date, most recent first:  

• Public School special needs department: long term, contentious breakdown of working relationships: special needs assessment, crisis management, restorative capacity building.

• Aboriginal arts organization: Independent evaluation of performance under grant for stand-alone finance workshop for artists and initial visioning workshop for members required by federal Aboriginal funding.

• International mining development corporation: due diligence exploratory discussion and analysis of emerging mining enterprise development process - corporate, strategic and operational.

• U.S. government, multi-office agency based in Canada and providing services Canada-wide: facilitate two-day annual offsite workshop of senior management Leadership Team for Strategic Plan update.

• Needs Assessment: multi-practice, community-based law firm regarding ownership, management and practice issues.

• Selected by an international, not-for-profit, citizen consultation organization as one of 50 volunteer facilitators from North America to support 500 professional and citizen participants in interactive sessions of a state governor's post-Katrina/Rita hurricane recovery and rebuilding conference over three days. Conference organized by national professional organizations to create principles and a strategic plan for long and short term creation of improved infrastructure, communities, economies, tourism and arts and cultural centres.
  
  
• Preparation on short notice of grant application from board of an emerging urban aboriginal arts service organization for governance and management capacity building to serve the needs of artist members and community.
  
  
• Governance-management design and development for a constellation of related Aboriginal companies, ranging from consulting to construction, with strong family ownership and involvement, as well as comittment to positive community economic development - operating from on reserve.
  
  
• Board of Directors, established registered charity service organization in transition: Design and facilitate, on short notice, an already decided and scheduled Strategic Planning Day for half new, half long term Board members and staff. Design targeted teamwork and necessary fundamentals for a collaborative transition to ongoing strategic management.
   
• National Charitable Foundation: On referral. CEO, on arrival, presented with complaint filed with Human Rights Commission re: matters under previous administration. Assessment and advice on dispute management issues, processes and implications for organization, identified highly qualified and regarded candidates vetted and selected by client to provide specialized investigative and legal services to organization.
     
• Urban Aboriginal Regional Council; regional representative body of provincial and national organization: Elected Council development including design and facilitation of first grassroots Community Gathering of members - to provide community-driven direction, priorities and actions to this and two other emerging Councils in the region.
  
  
• Design, compile and edit report and participant evaluation of a multi-sector conference on access to professions for internationally educated professionals, to bring them together with principal sector stakeholders, e.g., employers, certifying and licensing agencies, associations and educators to facilitate their integration into the economy.
• Selected by a national NGO to design, facilitate and prepare a working session and report on regional funding priorities based on needs and priority-setting for community economic development - director and staff of regional office of a federal agency and board members and executive directors of its constituent local Community Futures Development Corporations.


• Strategic, dispute and funding advice to community based ethnic women's organization regarding break-down of federally funded economic development partnership of three partners, one of which inappropriately took control of operations and funding from the community.


• Facilitate Governance and Management Initiative of Chief and Council, Senior Management and Community on reserve. Change-in-government transition process and comprehensive community work plan. Facilitating design, implementation and coordination of community-driven governance and management development to enhance capacity to address vision, strategy, economic development and migration to self-government. (Implementation re: "needs assessment with...." assignment below);


• Small Group Facilitator, "Listening to the City": gathering of 5,000 participants from NYC, New Jersey and Connecticut working with 500 invited, selected and self-funded volunteer facilitators from U.S. and other countries. 500 small groups of 10 citizens, invited through media announcements, provided real-time, computer-networked, direct input to public and private decision makers on options for post 9/11 reconstruction of World Trade Centre site and rebuilding of lives, communities and economy in Lower Manhatten. Organized by AmericaSpeaks for New York City, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and Lower Manhatten Economic Development Corporation; July 20, 2002; Jacob K. Javits Centre, Manhatten, New York City;
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  Co-chair, "Rights and Responsibilities of Individuals and Corporations" session. Invited and introduced Native filmmaker and environmental advocate to speak at the "Sustainable Education" session. "Third Conference on the Evolution of World Order", May 30-June 2, 2002; Post Conference Working Group; World Issues Council & Ryerson University, Toronto.


• Facilitator of national gathering of diverse leaders from a middle eastern ethnic community on the impact of 9/11 on their community in Canada; report on community problems, issues, needs and solutions to support the development of strategies, action plans and recommendations for community development and federal funding. Facilitated design, public/private funding and implementation of a national community development action strategy to address needs and community problems identified in national round table as well as community capacity building.


• Needs assessment jointly with Chief and Council, Senior Management and on-reserve Community members re: governance and management, strategic planning and strategic management, organizational structure and function, linking policy and services. (Needs Assessment in preparation for "Facilitate Governance and Management Initiative..." above)


• Disputed Chief and Council, band custom election in northern, fly-in First Nation. Designed process for fact-finding, mediation of electoral appeals and related allegations. Designed and recommended community and region-based plan for band custom electoral code development, electoral capacity building, integration into ongoing governance, recognition of Elders' role in dispute resolution and electoral code development, collaboration with other communities coping with similar issues. Undertaken and conducted with independent, highly regarded, senior Aboriginal individuals working as a Facilitation and Mediation Team. 


• Governance and management; council-subsidiary organization mandates, roles and relationships; council-management roles and relationships; organizational structure; external and internal service contract reviews with northern First Nation.


• Invited observer, advisor and consultant to a national NGO regarding development and launch of their planned program in governance for Aboriginal communities, chiefs and councils and other Aboriginal governance organizations;


• National board development regarding dispute resolution vision, role, structure, operations, re-positioning relationships with regional/provincial (including new Quebec) affiliates, members, sector, funding bodies and government policy; advocacy, action plans and monitoring;


• Community association of grass roots community organizations: collaborative vision review, assessment and development; membership and board structure and development; dispute resolution, membership and services diversification strategy and implementation; assessment and advice on advocacy role and on development of funding proposals from association and member organizations, developed board structure transition plan;


• Facilitation of first national board strategy session for President and Provincial leaders of a long established association for creative professionals working in commercial markets;


• Advice and assistance to a community-based women's centre on health-related grant proposal: analysis, strategy, preparation and drafting;


• Series of some 40 mandatory, governmental, personal injury mediations between represented parties injured in automobile accidents who were in dispute with their insurance companies; 


• Provincial board development, strategy retreat, strategy, implementation, operational plans and monitoring;


• First Nation chief and council; needs assessment, vision and strategy development; Council development; negotiation support for short and long term strategy in crisis confrontation with timber company;


• Advice on preparing a submission from a professional practice association to the health professions regulatory consultation process;


• Advice on scope of practice jurisdictional issue between professional groups and potential government role in possible resolution;


• Advice on approaches to a government-wide agency's vision, role, strategy, public/private collaboration, funding, services and monitoring.

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1.   Frank McLean: Mediation, Facilitation, Background

A career overview with web links to specialized resumes 2, 3 and 4 below. Identifies chronological stages of career and Practice, practice areas, experience and employment, professional and community service, university degree. (Web page)