Executing Projects Faster and Cheaper in An Uncertain World: Here’s a Better Approach
Are you a project owner who is seeing project costs escalating out of control or a project manager who spends more time arguing about costs than how to best execute work? Or maybe you’re a construction contractor who feels like you are not able to be competitive with rising material and labor costs? If so,…
COAA Searches for Permanent Executive Director!
COAA is actively searching for a permanent Executive Director to lead our growing association into the future! We invite all interested candidates to view the full position description and application details HERE.
COAA 2021 Annual General Meeting
The 2021 Annual General Meeting took place virtually on October 13, 2021. View the Agenda HERE. View the AGM Slide Presentation HERE. We were pleased to have Rob O’Donohue, Senior Director and CIO for Leadership, Culture and People Research Team at Gartner follow up the AGM with a presentation on “Hybrid Work Models & Reinventing…
President’s Message – November 2020
The year 2020 will go down in the history books as one of the strangest, most disruptive many of us have experienced. While health and economic issues have created churn most of us will be happy to forget, the upheaval has also offered an opportunity to be more thoughtful and creative about how we bring…
COAA 2020 AGM Slides and Program
When: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 Time: 09:30 to 11:30 am MDT. Where: Zoom Meeting The COAA Annual General Meeting was held Wednesday, October 14th, as a virtual session. The short formal meeting was followed by a presentation on thinking beyond COVID challenges (building a better future), a presentation about meeting COVID challenges head-on…
Nadine Barber – Profile
Nadine Barber, Interim Executive Director Nadine has over 25 years of public affairs, issues management and corporate communications experience. While the bulk of her career has been in the upstream oil and gas industry, she has worked in agriculture, health, and environmental services. Nadine has been privileged to work with teams and communities from coast…
Dawn Farrell, President, Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Director, TransAlta
Dawn Farrell is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TransAlta. Dawn has over 35 years of experience in the electricity industry, with roles at TransAlta and BC Hydro. Before serving as Chief Executive Officer, Dawn held various leadership positions at TransAlta and between 2003 – 2007 worked at BC Hydro leading the company’s generation…
COVID-19 – Working Through the Challenges
All of COAA’s COVID-19 resources have been moved to the COAA Library and Webinar pages. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact communications@coaa.ab.ca.
COAA 2019 AGM
Registration is now open to attend COAA’s Annual General Meeting on October 9th in Calgary, Alberta. A detailed agenda will be available in the next couple of weeks. This is a great opportunity to catch up on COAA initiatives, as well as to network with colleagues from across the industry. We encourage you to bring…
2019 Best Practices Conference Workshops
Click on any workshop title below for more information. Please note that in order to secure your spot in a workshop, you will need to register for the conference and note your selections from below