Our People

You need people who can see what others miss.

Complex problems rarely announce themselves clearly. They show up as turnover, delays, stalled growth, unclear accountability, or leadership fatigue.  Our consultants are trained to identify the hidden constraint behind visible problems so you can stop treating symptoms and start fixing performance.

Blue Monarch Leadership

Jeff Peterson
MBA, FCMC
President & CEO

Professional Management • Governance • Company Building

Jeff Peterson leads Blue Monarch Management as a professional management firm focused on strengthening how organizations are governed, managed, and executed. His work sits at the intersection of governance, executive leadership, institutional capability, company building, capital stewardship, and disciplined execution.

Vanessa Chau
P.Eng., MIAM
Head of Asset Management Advisory

Asset Management • Infrastructure Stewardship • Capital Planning

Vanessa Chau leads Blue Monarch’s asset management capability. She helps asset-intensive organizations strengthen governance, investment planning, service-level decisions, regulatory alignment, and long-term infrastructure stewardship across municipal, transit, utility, and public infrastructure environments.

Leanne Walper
MBA
Head of Marketing

People • Culture • Governance & Institutional Communications 

Leanne Walper helps mission-driven and institutional organizations strengthen the systems that shape employee experience, culture, governance, communications, and organizational credibility. Her work connects people practices, policy architecture, regulatory documentation, stakeholder communication, institutional brand, and cross-functional coordination.

Building stronger organizations starts with a conversation.

Whether you’re navigating growth, change, or increasing complexity, we’re here to help.

Blue Monarch Consultants

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Anne Rose
CPCC, PCC

Executive Coaching • Communication • Team Effectiveness 

Anne Rose helps senior leaders strengthen executive presence, communication, influence, emotional intelligence, and team performance. Her coaching supports leaders navigating growth, transition, complexity, and change where leadership behaviour directly affects alignment, confidence, and execution. 

John Neelin 
CPHR, SHRM-SCP, Prosci CP

Organizational Architecture • Workforce Strategy • HCM Transformation 

John Neelin helps executives design the people systems and structures required to run high-performing organizations. He turns complex organizational development, process and workflow, employee services, and HCM issues into clear choices, decision frameworks, and operating models leaders can sustain.
Laurie Copeland
MBA, CPHR, PMP

Workforce Strategy • Governance • Labour Relations 

Laurie Copeland helps executive teams modernize workforce systems, governance frameworks, organizational structures, and HR operations. Her experience is strongest in public-sector and education environments where labour relations, compliance, workforce planning, leadership alignment, and organizational change must be managed together. 

Richard Boyles 
BSc, Prosci Certified CMP

OCM • ERP Adoption • Regulated Transformation 

Richard Boyles helps organizations manage adoption, readiness, communication, and training through ERP and enterprise technology change. His experience spans SAP, Workday, Maximo, Oracle, M365, ServiceNow, Dynamics GP, and Curam across regulated, public-sector, utility, healthcare, finance, and enterprise environments. 

Zakeana Reid 
CPHR

Operational Stabilization • Fractional COO • Founder Transition 

Zakeana Reid helps organizations stabilize operations, clarify accountability, and build scalable structures during growth, acquisition, restructuring, or founder-transition environments. She brings interim CEO, fractional COO, HR, PMO, compensation, governance cadence, and accountability-system experience. 

Erinn Van Wynsberghe
M.Eng., B.Eng.

Innovation Systems • Aerospace • Funding Strategy 

Erinn van Wynsberghe works with technically complex and innovation-driven organizations that stall between strategy and execution. He helps boards, founders, and senior teams restore structure, align stakeholders, and move critical initiatives forward across aerospace, advanced communications, cybersecurity research, and emerging energy environments.

Bulent Onsoy
MBA, MA

Fintech, Payments & Technology Transformation 

Bulent Onsoy advises organizations at the intersection of business strategy, technology transformation, payments, fintech, and governance. He brings executive operating experience across banking, telecom, venture advisory, engineering leadership, and post-acquisition transformation.

Heidi AlAli
BSc, SAFe POPM, CSM

Modernization Recovery • Governance Intervention • Capital Control 

Heidi AlAli steps into complex modernization portfolios where fragmented governance, capital exposure, and delivery volatility threaten operational continuity. She brings executive control to high-risk ERP, CRM, and compliance programs by re-sequencing capital investments, enforcing vendor accountability, and restoring delivery confidence.

Ben Poirier
Ph.D., PMP

Technology Executive • Capital-Scale Transformation 

Ben Poirier brings executive technology judgment to high-risk modernization, infrastructure, integration, and AI-enabled operating environments. His work is strongest where technical complexity, governance, delivery control, and executive accountability must be managed as one system.

Debby Dawodu
MBA, PMP

Healthcare Modernization • Implementation Governance • Operational Readiness

Debby Dawodu helps organizations deliver complex modernization programs where service continuity, stakeholder alignment, vendor coordination, and operational readiness matter. Her experience spans healthcare, public safety, public-sector infrastructure, clinical systems, PMO governance, and multi-site implementation environments.

James Millar
ABC

Strategy • Crisis • Executive Coaching • Stakeholder Confidence

James Millar advises boards and executive teams in high-stakes environments where strategy, reputation, government relations, stakeholder confidence, and disciplined communications must work together. He also serves as an executive coach, helping senior leaders strengthen judgment, communication, and leadership presence under pressure.

Mark Buzan
CAE, APR, MA

Governance-Driven Growth • Stakeholder Alignment • Revenue Systems

Mark Buzan helps boards, executive teams, associations, and complex organizations turn strategic priorities into visible traction. His work connects governance, stakeholder alignment, partnerships, revenue systems, and public-facing coordination in environments where execution depends on credibility, discipline, and external relationships.

Dan DeBeyer
BSc, MBA, PMP

Portfolio Governance • Digital Enablement • Public-Sector Modernization

Dan DeBeyer helps leaders stabilize complex portfolios, strengthen governance discipline, and translate modernization agendas into executable plans. His work spans public sector, healthcare, Indigenous, non-profit, and regulated environments where executive alignment, planning discipline, and portfolio control matter.

Enterprise Risk • Regulated Growth • Financial Services Strategy

Heather Santamaria helps leaders manage growth, risk, governance, and execution as one system. Her strongest background is in financial services, credit, lending, product platforms, and regulated consumer portfolios, where she has led risk appetite design, portfolio performance improvement, analytics-enabled decisioning, and board- level governance.

Business Architecture • Modernization Diagnostics • Investment Alignment

Neil Corriveau helps leaders clarify complex organizational, regulatory, technology, and investment problems before execution hardens around the wrong answer. He connects executive intent to modernization logic through diagnostics, capability mapping, value-stream analysis, governance design, and investment-ready architecture.

Paul McCarney
P.Eng., GSC

Infrastructure Governance • Ownership Transition • Construction Stewardship

Paul McCarney advises owners, boards, and executive teams navigating governance, integration, ownership transition, and operating continuity in construction and infrastructure businesses. His experience combines entrepreneur-owner perspective, company sale, post-acquisition integration, sector stewardship, and long- horizon construction leadership.

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Sustained performance requires sustained management capacity.

Blue Monarch provides experienced support that strengthens execution, continuity, and organizational effectiveness over time.