Louis Grenier M.Sc.

  • Louis Grenier has a passion to support capacity building and a desire to improve our world by supporting organizations working to that end.

Louis makes his wealth of knowledge, skills, experiences and services available to his clients. Over the past 40 years, he has accumulated a variety of experiences in administration, accounting, customer service, management, supervision, teaching and public relations within small, medium and large businesses and organizations.

The knowledge Louis has acquired and offers, in the hopes of better serving his community, includes a B.A. in Sociology and an M.Sc. in the Management and Development of Co-operatives. This has not only enabled him to understand group relationships for the development of associations, but, also to assist groups in understanding how they can empower themselves to resolve important issues.

Louis has successfully completed the training component of the APEC Training and Certification Program for Small Business Counsellors in order to provide assistance to those wishing to develop businesses.

Louis is on a continuous journey of self-improvement.

Louis has been of service to organizations as an employee, a contracted worker and as a consultant. He helped accomplish short to medium term projects as a contractor with organizations having limited resources.

Louis also provided short term services by presiding over Annual General Meetings; he helped organizations to update their bylaws and develop policies as well as providing Board development workshops.

  LOUIS GRENIER

Short Biography

 

Louis holds a Master's degree in the management and development of cooperatives from the University of Sherbrooke and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Calgary. He has also received training in management, in administration, in project management, as a mediator, as coach and as business adviser.

 

Louis has worked for small, medium and large companies; in private, public and social enterprises; in for-profit as well as non-profit organizations. He has been involved in the non-profit sector for more than 30 years.

 

Current activity:
  • Centre d'appui familial board member
 

Some past activities:

 

Employment
  •   Consultant
  •   Southern Alberta Community Relations for l’Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Alberta
  •   Co-ordinator of the Cercle de collaboration de Calgary
  •   Executive Director of the Conseil de la coopération de l’Ontario
  •   Community liaison for the Secrétariat provincial de l’Association canadienne française de l’Alberta
  •   Program Director for the Prairie Hub Co-operative Development Initiative 
  •   Government and Communications Co-ordinator for the Conseil Canadien de la Coopération
  •   Southern Alberta RDÉE Agent for La Chambre Économique de l’Alberta
  •   Author of a 5 year National Action Plan for the Youth involvement in Francophone Co-ops within Canada
  •   Manager of the Calgary Inter-faith Second Hand Furniture Store
  •   Warehouse supervisor, responsible for the operations of the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank



Volunteer

  • Co-operator's Community Advisory Panel Member in Calgary
  • Cooperative Memorial Society Board Member and Secretary
  • Board Chair for the Alberta Provincial Francophone Newspaper, Le Franco 
  • Community Mediation Calgary Society Board of Directors.
  • Alberta Board Development Program Instructor 
  • RDÉE Ontario Board of Directors 
  • Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario (AFO) Board of Directors 
  • Le Réseau de développement économique et d’employabilité de l’Ontario (RDÉE) Board of Directors
  • Canadian Community Economic Development (CCEDNet) Board of Directors 
  • CCEDNet Practitioner Development Committee 
  • Alberta Community Economic Development Network Steering Committee
  • Cofounder of the Calgary Alternative Transportation Co-operative (CATCO)
  • Member of a number of committees to support immigrants and refugees.