Guest Speakers

DONNA MORTON

Special Presentation
Economic Artist ~ Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
www.integraleconomics.org

Donna is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Integral Economics (CIE), based in Victoria, BC Canada. CIE is an enterprising non-profit organization that researches and promotes market-based solutions to social and environmental sustainability. She was awarded an Ashoka fellowship in 2003, and the Women and Spirit of the Crane award for business leadership.
 
Her core work focuses on bringing together business, government, youth and social sector interests around catalytic economic policy. CIE has been instrumental in putting innovative policy tools like “tax shifting” on the map in Canada to solve problems from social housing and community economic development to sprawl abatement and reducing toxic chemicals.
 
Artist, activist and entrepreneur, Donna has more than fifteen years experience in organizational leadership, communications, and policy and process design.  She has consulted widely with NGO’s, governments Aboriginal and business organizations. She is a frequent keynote speaker and media commentator.

In addition to her work at CIE, Donna is a principal in Waterstone Strategies, a boutique policy, process and public relations company. She also serves on several National and International boards including The Power of Hope, and Trafford Publishing (Canada’s 10th fastest growing company).