Role: CEO & Founder, MacKay & Associates
Passion: working with top CEOs and Executives to accelerate their business and personal results and better equip them for the grueling demands of their role.
Dr. Nancy MacKay is the CEO and Co-Founder of MacKay & Associates. Her company accelerates CEO and Executive performance through world-class peer groups involving over 200 members across Canada. Over the past 15 years, Nancy has coached hundreds of CEOs and senior executives in companies around the world. She is the co-author of the book “The Talent Advantage” by Wiley Publishing and continues to be an invited speaker to many groups and conferences. She has been a professor and taught in the business faculty of several universities including Simon Fraser University, University of Waterloo and Lincoln University in New Zealand. She has received numerous awards, including being named a World Class Consultant by an international group of her peers. In 2008, she was named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Nancy also serves on the Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University. Nancy is a well-known member of the Vancouver business community and is a member of the prestigious Vancouver Club. She holds a Masters degree in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D in Business from Canterbury University in New Zealand. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles that have been published in international research journals as well as being featured in many popular business publications.
Highlights:
- Coach and facilitate more than 100 CEOs and 80 senior executives across Canada
- Consult with CEOs and senior executives in numerous Top 100 and Best Managed Companies across Canada
- Sought-after speaker for conferences and meetings across Canada and the US
- Vancouver Chair of TIGER21, the Investment Group for Enhanced Results in the 21st Century
- Vancouver Club member
Published:
- Co-author of The Talent Advantage by Wiley Publishing
- Featured writer in popular business publications including a monthly column in Business in Vancouver
Volunteer Work and Awards:
- Honoured as a World Class Consultant by an international group of peers
- Named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008
- Simon Fraser University Board of Governors
- BC Children’s Hospital Foundation Circle of Care member (2006-2011)
- Rick Hansen Institute volunteer
- YWCA of Vancouver, former Board member and Inner Circle Member
- The Minerva Foundation for BC Women volunteer
- United Way of the Lower Mainland contributor
- United Way of Toronto contributor
- Boys and Girls Club of BC contributor
Education:
- Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
- Masters, Management Sciences, University of Waterloo
- Ph.D, Business, Canterbury University (New Zealand)
Robert MacKay
Role: VP Operations, MacKay & Associates
Passion: Working with Nancy and our associates to help CEOs and Executives to accelerate their business and personal results and better equip them for the grueling demands of their role.
Highlights:
- Provide strategic and operational support to Nancy and our associates to enable them to coach and facilitate more than 100 CEOs and 80 senior executives across Canada
Volunteer Work:
- BC Children’s Hospital Foundation contributor
- United Way of the Lower Mainland contributor
- United Way of Toronto contributor
- Boys and Girls Club of BC contributor
Education:
- Bachelor of Economics, University of Manitoba
- MBA, University of Manitoba
