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Maggie (Milne) Chicoine
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Maggie
is known for her expertise as a seasoned speaker who relies on more than theory
to get her point across. Her firm,
MMI (1986) has a reputation for zealous, interactive high content programmes
with a twist of ingenuity. Maggie
has developed stimulating connections with audiences in the mudhuts of Ghana and
executive boardrooms in Canada and Australia.
Above all, she loves the North; her home base is Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Maggie
has been the Atlantic Speakers Bureau’s “Consummate
Speaker of the Year”. Northern
Ontario Business magazine chose her as one of the north’s “Most Influential
Women”: in May 2001, Maggie was honoured for “demonstrating phenomenal
influence as an inspiration to others in Northern Ontario.” In
April 2002, she received the “Outstanding
Mentor” award from the Young Entrepreneurs of Canada. In 2004, she received
the “Amplifying the Thunder Award” from the Thundering Women Festival. In
2005 she was awarded “Business of the Year” by PARO Centre for Women’s
Enterprise. In March 2006, the
Thunder Bay Business Women’s Network awarded her their first Lifetime
Membership Award. She is excited about her role as judge for the NOB Women of
Influence Awards (June 2007). She
has studied Creativity at the Monroe Institute and with Dr. Betty Edwards at the
Boston School of Fine Arts. She
is certified with the Herrmann Brain Dominance Institute (Whole Brain Thinking
and Facilitating), as well as training in Learning Organizations (Nevis, Dibella
and Gould) at Harvard. She invests
one month annually into her personal professional development, receiving her
Masters in Coaching in San Diego California (2004).
She was first certified as a coach in1989.
She is a regular at the Maui Writers’ Conference.
In the spring of 2007, she will study with Byron Katie for her
certification in doing “The Work”. Maggie is a founding Director of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and a member of the International Federation and NSA (1991). She holds membership in the International Coach Federation as well as the International Association of Facilitators, Chamber of Commerce, and a founding Champion of Leadership Thunder Bay. Her
claim to fame is her ability to jump in with both feet.
She has a long list of “firsts”:
first female to be hired on contract with the Canadian Grain Elevators;
founding Executive Director of the Multicultural Association of Northwestern
Ontario, and the Ontario Prevention Network. Editor of "Rural Connections”, and a wedding and funeral photographer with her
parent’s family business. Maggie
has never been traditional and she has never stood still! Her
work on leadership is included in the anthology, The Master’s Collection:
Executive Insights for Global Leadership. Her
column, Creative Confessions appears in MidWest Edge and Transforming Boundaries
magazines. Her new book,
“Creative Confessions, from Vulnerable to Valuable” highlights the paths of
northern women entrepreneurs, and is due to be released in 2007.
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