Sterling Eddy
Sterling Eddy
is Founder and CEO at LeadWell Futures.
Sterling has held a variety of executive leadership and governance roles
over a career spanning over 35 years. His positions have included being
a Director of Western Management Consultants, President and CEO of CMA
Alberta, President and CEO of The ATi Consulting Corp. Inc., Vice
President/Partner of The Comprehensive Consulting Group, Principal of
Ernst and Young Consulting in Ottawa, Financial Manager of Canada’s
Unemployment Insurance Program and several other roles.
He is very
active in the governance of many organizations including holding
Chairmanship responsibilities and major committees like corporate
governance, audit, and strategy. His board involvement includes the
Southern Alberta Land Trust Society, Alberta Ballet, Santech Health
Sciences, Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Alberta, QE 2
Health Sciences Centre (Halifax), Woods Homes, Calgary Centre for
Nonprofit Management, and many others.
Sterling has written and spoken extensively on the subjects of ethics,
governance, strategy, and leadership. He has had direct responsibilities
related to ethics from a professional and regulatory perspective having
been the President and CEO of the Certified Management Consultants of
Alberta (CMAA) from 1997 to 2005. He led the development of the latest
Code of Conduct for the CMAA and oversaw the discipline and professional
conduct of the CMA membership. He also led a special task force on
ethics for CMAA and has presented on the topic many times.
His ethics
and related talks have included the 2003 University of Calgary MBA
Conference, The Strategic Leadership Forum of Calgary, the University of
Alberta Business Alumni association, the Certified Management
Consultants (CMC) of Alberta, the Certified Management Accountants (CMA)
of Alberta, a keynote speech for the 2004 Convocation of the DeVry
Institute, the national Ethical Leadership Summit in Halifax (2004), and
the U of C think-tank on the Theory and Practice of Ethics. He has also
written articles on ethical governance and leadership for the Corporate
Training Monthly and the CMA Network publications.
Sterling earned his BComm in Business, Management, Marketing, and
Related Support Services at Dalhousie University in 1972.
Read his
LinkedIn profile.