DONALD W. MALPASS
Public Sector Consulting Services
106 Prospect Street
Port Dover, Ontario N0A 1N1

BACKGROUND

Don Malpass established Public Sector Consulting Services in 1990 following a successful 21-year career in the Ontario Public Service. Don specializes in helping teams of senior public sector officials and the executives and boards of non-governmental organizations in the planning, implementation, and management of successful organizational change and strategy development.

Don brings to his consulting work a record of public sector management competence, an understanding of the unique nature of managing in that sector, and acknowledged excellence as a management educator and group facilitator.

Don has had substantial consulting experience with Children's Aid Societies, facilitating the development of a strategic plan for Family and Children's Services Niagara (under R.A.L. Consulting Limited), and conducting an organizational effectiveness review for the Children's Aid Society of Kent County.

PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

Facilitation

• Don has conducted team-building sessions with numerous branches within the Ontario Government; planned and facilitated a wide range of conferences and community meetings; conducted focus groups as an integral part of many projects; facilitated learning events for a diverse group of clients; and designed and facilitated staff conferences and organizational planning sessions.
  
• Clients of facilitation services have included:
  - Ontario ministries and agencies: Attorney General, Solicitor General, Intergovernmental Affairs, Government Services, Management Board Secretariat, Personnel Council, Treasury and Economics, Agriculture and Food, and Ontario Housing Corporation.
  - Local government: Town of Parry Sound, Town of Wallaceburg, Georgian Triangle Economic Development Corporation, and Chatham-Kent Community Futures (under R.A.L. Consulting Limited).
  - Other: Revenue Canada, Municipal Electric Association, and Canadian Centre for Management Development.

Organizational Reviews

• As Director of Field Services, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Don managed reviews into the administrative and financial integrity of local government. Following the reviews, recommendations and often orders were made to local councils to change and improve the way they were conducting the public's business.
• As a consultant, Don has:
  - Conducted an operational review for the Moosonee Development Area Board and an organizational development process for the Town of Simcoe;
  - Reviewed the effectiveness of and recommended improvements for Human Resources Department, Region of Haldimand-Norfolk;
  - Conducted organizational effectiveness reviews and recommended improved management structures and processes for the: Ontario Office of the Treasury Communications Branch, Ontario Ministry of Energy Children's Aid Society of the County of Kent Apprenticeship Branch, Ontario Ministry of Skills Development Treasury Department, City of Welland. Developed an organizational structure and Council procedures for the newly integrated Township of Huron.

Strategic Planning

• Developed the strategic planning process for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and produced the first strategic plan for the ministry and many of the branches. Facilitated the development of a strategic plan for the Georgian Triangle area.
• Under the direction of R.A.L. Consulting Limited, assisted with the development of the first strategic plan for Family and Children's Services Niagara. The planning process involved extensive consultation with the FACS Board, agency staff, and the community.
• Developed curriculum and tested a new training program in Strategic Planning for Community Economic Development for the Government of Ontario. Taught strategic planning courses for Ontario public servants.
• Facilitated the development of a strategic plan for Scouts Canada and an economic development strategy for the Chatham - Kent County Community Futures Committee (under R.A.L. Consulting Limited).

Management Education and Training

• Developed and managed a government-wide management education program for the Human Resources Secretariat (Ontario); delivered management seminars for senior civil servants in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands, and the Ukraine; developed and conducted senior executive seminars for provincial governments; delivered a wide range of management and executive educational programs for organizations in the not-for-profit sector; developed innovative approaches to the provision of in-house management, executive, and support staff training.
• Continuing member of the adjunct faculty of the Canadian Centre for Management Development, the executive education centre for the Public Service of Canada.
• Completed an educational needs assessment and development plan for the 1,800 staff of Local Housing Authorities (outside Metropolitan Toronto) of the Ontario Housing Corporation and a similar but separate process for their Board members.

EDUCATION

Master of Education (Adult Education), University of Toronto, 1975

Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Sociology), McMaster University, 1971

Diploma in Recreation Management, University of Guelph, 1965

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