Kip Sharpe – Director, Business Development

Job Description

  • Promotes The Association Management Company by delivering presentations and workshops and articles for publications in support of associations internationally
  • Provides The Association Management Company consulting services to client organizations in strategy workshops, Balanced Scorecard applications and organizational reviews.
  • Contributes as a member of the The Association Management Company management
  • To provide Executive Director services to associations
  • Spoke at the 2006 Canadian Society of Association Executives national conference in Edmonton in September on Balanced Scorecard for the Association Management Sector.
  • Responsible for all marketing and developing new business.

Qualifications:

  • Successfully increased business for another Canadian Association Management Company
  • Published research on Canadian Associations
  • 30 years in various fields including petroleum, government, hospitality, technology, document solutions, and insurance.
  • Bachelor of Science degree from University of Western Ontario
  • Previous career as a staff manager, computer programmer and technical sales.
  • Participates as an active member of the American and Canadian Societies of Association Executives.
  • Actively serves on committees for the Toronto Board of Trade, Canadian Society of Association Executives, and Strategic Leadership Forum.

Sandy Richardson

Sandy Richardson, B.Sc., M.Ed. is a strategic planning and balanced scorecard professional with a true passion for working with organizations to achieve their performance objectives. With over 19 years of progressive business performance management employment in the healthcare, insurance, and mining industries, and extensive experience providing consulting services in both the public and private sectors, Sandy is regarded as an expert in focused strategic planning methods and translating strategy into action via the balanced scorecard.

Highlights of Sandy’s qualifications and capabilities include the following:

  • She is widely considered to be a balanced scorecard “pioneer” – She successfully developed, implemented, and managed the balanced scorecard at The Canada Life Assurance Company, one of Canada’s “early adopter” organizations,
  • She has helped organizations in all business sectors and numerous industries successfully navigate their strategic planning and balanced scorecard journeys (client examples include the Canadian Government (Canada Revenue Agency, Department of Fisheries and Oceans), the City of Burlington (Human Resources Department), Barrick Gold Corp., The Canada Life Assurance Co – Group Creditor business) ,
  • Sandy is a recognized expert in effective strategy cascading, using the balanced scorecard as a critical governance tool, and building a strategy-focused organizational culture, and
  • She is a published writer, dynamic speaker, and expert trainer/facilitator on the topics of strategic planning, the balanced scorecard, and building organizational alignment with business strategy.

Known as a positive leader and skilled communicator and facilitator, Sandy builds the effective and collaborative working relationships required (from front line staff to senior executives) to assist teams in achieving their strategic planning and balanced scorecard objectives.


Wendy Sue Lyttle

Wendy Sue Lyttle, CSP, CAE has been an active agent for progressive development in the not-for-profit sector for over 16 years. She is a strategist bringing her extensive experience in membership marketing, stakeholder, volunteer and partner relationships, and board governance. Wendy has earned solid credentials in key roles with the Canadian Professional Sales Association, the Canadian Society of Association Executives as well in the consulting field with such clients as Ontario Society of Professional Engineers and Ontario Dental Association. Wendy is regarded as an expert in certification programs and holds two designations, Canadian Association Executive – CAE and Certified Sales Professional – CSP.

Highlights of Wendy’s qualifications and capabilities include

  • Delivering new value to members through meaningful benefits and affinity programs
  • Increasing revenues through new members and revenue-generating opportunities
  • Current Program Audits and Recommendations
  • Membership materials, including affinity and sponsor programs
  • Member needs analyses
  • ScoreCard analysis
  • Membership Information – Maximizing the Opportunities
  • Knowledgeable consultation on database management systems, including iMIS, AMSoft, AssociationServer and Revilonetworks
  • Data mining recommendations
  • Custom Marketing Plans
  • Based on detailed program analysis and recommendation with concise implementation outlines

Her expertise deals with recruitment of excellent personnel and training which was a transfer skill coming from the corporate market place into the not-for-profit sector.


Lynn Beauregard

Lynn Beauregard is a Partner in The Association Management Company and has been President and owner of T•O Corporate Services, a long standing Toronto based Association Management firm, since 2002.

Lynn’s expertise with non-profit, professional organizations spans industry sectors. She represent the interest of their professional memberships through advocacy, publications, events and other membership services unique to their own industry interests and issues.

For The Association Management Company, Lynn

  • Provides overall management expertise to The Association Management Company
  • Provides general administration and Executive Director duties for association clients as required
  • Directs the administrative and operation needs for client organizations
  • Oversees the operations of the Toronto association management office

Previously, Lynn had spent 8 years with the Institute for International Research (IIR) where she occupied various roles in her career with the operation, including the Head of Training for Canada, Toronto Division Manager, Conference Director with their Paris office, and Editor-In-Chief. Lynn Beauregard was the founder of their new division, which launched its first courses (in French and English) on the market in Q4 of 2000.

Prior to joining IIR, Lynn started her career with Maclean’s Magazine, where she spent 5 years and became the Editorial Administrator in charge of Production. As part of her accomplishment at Maclean’s, Lynn helped launch the first Canadian university ranking issues, she managed the editorial budget, oversaw special events, managed the foreign correspondent and national bureau affairs and oversaw the editorial production activities.

Lynn holds a university degree in Business Administration and Psychology. French is her mother tongue and she also speaks Spanish.