Steve Hebert - CD BBA MA-DEM ABCP MCPM PMP MTM President & CEO Stephane ‘Steve’ Hebert has been President/CEO of AV8 Media & Management since 2005 and President/CEO of CONTINUEM since 2011. He has also been employed as an Air Force Combat Systems Officer for the past 16 years, serving in many different posts, including the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and the high Arctic as some of the more memorable. These posts were both as operations officer as well on a number of air platforms, including the CH124 Sea King and C130 Hercules. Prior to his time in the air force, he culminated a 12 year career in the Army Reserves as the Battery Commander of the 51st Field Artillery Battery. During his years in the Army Reserves he was also heavily involved in the software industry with Pictorius Incorporated, a global software company.
His educational achievements include a Certificate in Professionalism for the HR Practitioner and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from St Mary’s University, the Professional Development Series from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Advanced Business Continuity Course (BCLE2000) from the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada, a Masters in Disaster and Emergency Management from Royal Roads University and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Mount Saint Vincent University. This is but touching on the vast number of courses and training he has had to undergo in the Canadian Forces as an Army and Air Force Officer. These include Nuclear Emergency Management Course, Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection course, and a number of Command and Control courses. On the civilian side, the Basic Emergency Management Course, Business Continuity Management Course and Joint Emergency Operations Centre Management Courses were vital in rounding off his background and experience. Steve is currently enrolled in the Certificate in Business Analysis at Dalhousie University to add to his acumen.
He currently holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) the Associate Business Continuity Professional (ABCP) from Disaster Recovery Institure (DRI), is an and is currently working on his Certified Emergency Management (CEM) designation from the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). He volunteers with the Canadian Red Cross as a Disaster Management Evaluator, with IAEM as a member of the membership and marketing committee and as a basketball coach with the Dartmouth Lakers.
Strategic and organisational development leader, Jean-Claude MoreI has more than 20 years of extensive leadership practices and management experience; over a dozen of these years were spent with the United Nations in challenging theatres of operations within Africa, Central America, Middle East and North America. His appreciable operational expertise and leadership practices were acquired in corporate and public/international organisations evolving from electoral assistance, response to natural disasters, support to humanitarian crises, re-integration of dissident armed factions and national capacity-building and reconstruction mandates. His last mandate with the United Nations was as Mission-lead responsible for establishing preliminary support services and coordinator of initial emergency recovery efforts following Haiti's 2010 earthquake. Subsequently, assigned as the United Nation's Chief Operations Officer responsible for the implementation of the regional support base in the Dominican Republic for disaster relief.
During his tenure with the United Nations in Haiti he was the strategic adviser to the Mission's senior leadership on support policy related matters, planned and oversaw administrative and logistical support services provided by the Mission in Haiti, the overall budget of which exceeded half-a-billion dollars.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo he was the Mission specialist of integrated support services matters related to the implementation of strategic logistical support plans and was a member of the Mission's Steering Committee. Mr. Morel was also acted as the United Nation's support specialist assigned to the host government working group for matters related to national reconstruction. Defined, developed and implemented the Mission Support Center amidst countrywide civil unrest of June 2004 in lieu of the then defunct Mission logistics operations center. His revised support modus operandi became the precursor for ensuring effective mission-wide support services.
Mr. Morel holds Masters in Disaster and Emergency Management from Royal Roads University and is presently completing a Doctor of Business Administration at the International University of Monaco part of the INSEEC group (French accredition of "Conférence des Grandes écoles" that trains Executives and business leaders).
Erica Fleck BEM Operational Management/Business Continuity
Erica Fleck has been employed as a Logistics Officer with the Canadian Armed Forces for the past 28 years serving in many different positions including a deployment to Haiti in 2004. Currently serving as the Operations Officer for Joint Task Force Atlantic which is responsible for all Domestic Emergency Responses within the four Atlantic Provinces. This includes forest fires, flooding, hurricane responses, and search and rescue efforts both land and sea.
She is a highly motivated, driven and ambitious professional with a long and challenging career of crisis management experience. She is often sought to present her knowledge base to various Government Departments within the four Atlantic Provinces including but not limited to Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Public Safety, Canadian Border Services Agency and the Canadian Coast Guard. She has received a commendation for her efforts in leading the forest fire and evacuation efforts in Goose Bay Labrador in 2013.
Her educational achievements include a Bachelor of Emergency Management from Cape Breton University and a Certified Logistics Professional Designation. In addition, she continues to teach emergency management to all Canadian Armed Forces Personnel and Government departments within the four Atlantic Provinces. She has completed numerous courses within the military for logistics training and also, Nuclear Emergency Management, Basic Emergency Management, Incident Command System, Business Continuity Management, and Emergency Operations Center Management courses. She is currently working on her Certified Emergency Management designation from the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM).
In her spare time, she volunteers with numerous groups that her two active boys are engaged in and enjoys participating in the Masters program for kayaking and canoeing.
Stephanie Smith Medical & Training Stephanie Smith has been employed as a Critical Care Nursing Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces for the past 13 years, serving in many different posts, including the Role 3 Military Medical Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan on two occasions (2007 and 2009) and with the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in the Philippines (2013). From 2004-2009, she was employed as an immunization nurse and training officer at the Canadian Forces Health Services Centre in Ottawa. In 2009, she was posted to the Canadian Forces Health Services Training Centre in Borden, where she assumed the position of Basic Nursing Officer Course Coordinator, the Clinical Phase Training Coordinator for Nursing Officers and the Advanced Care Paramedic Program Coordinator and lead instructor. In May 2013, she was posted to her current location, the 1 Canadian Field Hospital in Petawawa, where she is employed as the Clinical Training Coordinator. Throughout these many positions, she has strengthened her instructor, mentorship and facilitator skills. She has organized numerous full scale humanitarian and combat mission exercises to train medical staff for future deployments.
She is highly motivated, driven and ambitious professional, energized by challenge with over 10 years of operational and medical experience. A talented public speaker, she has presented her clinical research and deployment experience at many prominent events including the International Trauma Conference in Mancester, UK; the Canadian Institute of Military Veteran Health Research Forum in Kingston, ON and the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses in Halifax, ON. She was recently accepted to present at 1st Red Cross/Red Cresent Disaster Nursing Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. An inspirational leader, she was selected as the 2012 Nursing Sentry and was recognized for her accomplishes by standing on the cenotaph at the National War Monument on Remembrance Day.
Her educational achievements include a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of New Brunswick, a Certificate in Emergency Nursing from the Registered Nurses Professional Development Centre in Halifax, NS, and a Master of Arts in Disaster and Emergency Management from Royal Roads University. She is a qualified instructor on the Trauma Nursing Core Course, The International Trauma Life Support (Advanced) and the Pediatric Trauma Life Support Course. She is a medical simulation facilitator trainer and high fidelity mannequin operator. She is the recipient of the Afghan Campaign Star, The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the US Medal of Achievement.
She has been a volunteer fitness, triathlon and running coach for more than ten years, and has completed two medical missions in Haiti through Project Medishare.