Tewanee Joseph

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As principal of the Tewanee Consulting Group, Tewanee Joseph specializes in public relations, communications and strategic planning. He has worked extensively with First Nations in the area of community consensus building, as well as providing advisory services to the private sector, and local, provincial and federal governments.

A member of the Squamish Nation, he continues to work with several First Nations - as well as his own, to develop strategies that will improve community wide decision-making. Joseph served eight years on the Squamish Nation Council and has a talent for facilitation and coordinating diverse groups to identify and achieve their goals. He has utilized his skills and now owns and operates a Consulting Group that has contributed to a broad range of initiatives including First Nations federal legislation, First Nations Land Management, Strategic Communications and Governance.

Currently, as the Executive Director for the Four Host First Nations Secretariat, Joseph  worked with VANOC and its partners to develop meaningful Aboriginal participation in the planning, hosting and staging of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. He has worked extensively with First Nations in the area of community consensus building as well as providing advisory services to the private sector, and local provincial, and federal governments.

Joseph's partnerships have turned the 2010 Winter Games into a world stage for not only the Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, but also other First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples across Canada. Joseph's keynote speech will bring you up to date on what Aboriginal communications will look like in Canada in years to come and how his skills as a communicator have helped him to reach out to Indigenous Peoples at home and around the globe.

Joseph is changing the face of Aboriginal communications forever - not just in Canada, but worldwide! We're talking social networking across First Nations cultures; communications training in print and on-line; and the use of modern tools to tell the story of the First Peoples in this country.

Rave Reviews:

"On behalf of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, I would like to thank you for your participation as our keynote speaker at this year's 2010 Discrimination Prevention Forum. The Forum is an avenue for a wide range of human rights stakeholders to indentify emerging issues of discrimination in the workplace and share lessons learned and best practices. Your remarks were a valuable contribution to the Forum's success and participants appreciated your willingness to share your views and experiences openly with them."

Canadian Human Rights Commission