Consultants and Resources

Annapolis Basin Conference Centre
The Annapolis Basin Conference Centre in Cornwallis Park provides meeting spaces, accommodations and food services for organizations requiring a conference, program or convention venue and services. The Centre can host up to 750 guests.

The Conference Centre is one of the most comprehensive event venues in Atlantic Canada. The dedicated and professional staff prides itself on its attention to detail, personal service and logistics for each and every event.

CMA Canada
CMA Canada offers the leading professional designation in Strategic Management Accounting and represents 38,000 members and 10,000 students and candidates in Canada and around the world. CMA Canada is a partnership of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada and the Societies of Management Accountants of each province/territory who are collectively and individually committed to common strategies. CMA Nova Scotia (which includes Bermuda and the Caribbean) exists to carry out its legislated mandate as the self-regulating professional body for CMAs in Nova Scotia, Bermuda and, shortly, in the Caribbean. Under this mandate, CMA Nova Scotia's primary responsibility is to protect the public interest, which is achieved by maintaining high quality accreditation programs and enforcing strict standards of ethical behavior and professional conduct. Beyond this primary mandate, CMA Nova Scotia also has a role to ensure the ongoing integrity and growth of the CMA designation and to serve the interests of individual members. In keeping with this, CMA Nova Scotia now offers the only locally-based professional accounting program, focused on management accounting, in Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and throughout the Caribbean.

Deloitte
Deloitte?ractitioners provide colleges, universities and school boards with a full range of business management and consulting services. Whether you need to do more with fewer resources, implement process and technology solutions, or increase efficiencies and function, Deloitte can team with you to address your needs.

From their Centre of Excellence in Halifax, Deloitte's education professionals have helped post-secondary institutions around the world deliver greater value to their stakeholders through:

• Improved operational efficiency
• Enhanced accountability and internal communications
• Enriched student services through best-in-class technologies

Halifax Global
A consulting firm with offices in Halifax and Fredericton, Halifax Global Management Consultants is a consulting firm serving a wide variety of sectors such as government, education, energy and health-care throughout North America and Europe. Halifax Global is focused on helping clients conduct planning that results in better performance by taking a holistic view of the organization in question and helping the client develop sustainable strategies for enhanced performance and innovation. Halifax Global's team consists of experts in marketing, finance, operations, human resources and information technology.

International Health Office, Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
The International Health Office (IHO) is responsible for directing, managing and promoting international activities of the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine.?Dalhousie is a leader in international medical education, faculty development, medical skills training and capacity building, and new medical school development.?The Dalhousie IHO has?ompleted and/or ongoing capacity building projects with partners in over 20 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. In addition Dalhousie has active global health research projects focused on infectious diseases like HIV and SARS with partners in Thailand and Uganda. Finally, the IHO also directs education and exchange programs for Dalhousie medical students and their counterparts from around the world.?For more information please consult their website.

Kisserup International Trade Roots (Kisserup)
Kisserup International Trade Roots (Kisserup) is an international consulting and trade-training company with offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Copenhagen, Denmark. With a great acknowledgement of the importance and value of education, Kisserup has worked with, partnered and provided assistance to many universities and educational institutes world wide.

Kisserup's extensive private sector experience allows us to educate small, micro, and medium exporters, empowering them to achieve success in the intimidating realm of international trade. Kisserup has provided capacity building, export development, workshop design & facilitation, research, and trade policy development services for international projects through multilateral funding institutes and bilateral development agencies.

LearnCorp International (LCI)
LearnCorp International (LCI) is a private sector company owned by the Cape Breton University Foundation. LCI's operational model is a demand-supply model, where LCI identifies opportunities for training and education on the international market (the demand), and then assembles the most appropriate team of providers from LCI's list of individual associates and partner institutions (the supply) to address the identified opportunity. The LCI team provides for business development and project management.

Since its inception in 2002, LCI has primarily worked in the oil and gas sector, meeting the demand for technical training, curriculum development and capacity building, in numerous countries throughout the world, in partnership with its primary providers Cape Breton University and Nova Scotia Community College.

McInnes Cooper
At McInnes Cooper, the focus is on the success of clients — locally, nationally, and internationally. The firm offers expertise in a broad range of areas, including banking, corporate finance and business, asset recovery and insolvency, education, labour and employment, energy and natural resources, tax, admiralty, insurance and litigation. The firm's lawyers routinely travel throughout North America, the Caribbean and Europe to meet the needs of clients and at the same time build on the firm's excellent network of global contacts.

With 200 lawyers, McInnes Cooper is Atlantic Canada's law firm and one of the 20 largest law firms in Canada. Clients benefit from top-tier service from the right lawyers with the right expertise, bringing the best resources from across the firm.

Medavie EMS Inc.
Medavie EMS Inc. (Medavie EMS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Medavie Inc., a company doing business as Medavie Blue Cross in Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic Provinces.

The Medavie EMS group of companies has over 10 years of experience in managing ambulance services including three emergency communications centres and currently provides enhanced ground and air ambulance services for four Canadian Provinces. We also consult internationally to support the development of effective emergency response systems.

We are uniquely positioned to assist systems in the design, implementation, and management of Land & Air Ambulance Systems Integration; Emergency Communications Centres; Patient Care & Clinical Quality; Innovative Health Solutions; EMT & Paramedic Training, and Medical Air Repatriation Services.

Nova Scotia Department of Education
The mission of the Department of Education is to provide excellence in education and training for personal fulfillment and for a productive, prosperous society. The Department has accredited the use of Nova Scotias public school curriculum in several countries including China, Egypt, Kuwait and the UAE.

Vale & Associates Human Resource Management and Consulting Inc.
Vale & Associates Human Resource Management and Consulting Inc. is focused on working with organizations to develop and manage human resources resulting in aligned HR policies, systems and processes that respond to and support the changing economic and labour market conditions. Being HR industry experts, keeping abreast of the changes in the industry, not only short term impacts but longer term implications gives us at Vale & Associates an understanding of the impacts and/or challenges organizations are facing today and into the future.