Welcome Michelle!

We are delighted to welcome our newest Consilium Consulting Group employee: Michelle Turpin.

Michelle has recently relocated to Ottawa from Iqaluit and will work as a Senior Consultant supporting our clients.

Michelle’s first project with Aarluk is delivering online training as part of a pilot project for Nunavut Arctic College. Working with other Consilium and Aarluk staff and associates, the goal is to move five core courses of the Municipal Government Program (MGP) onto a Moodle platform and deliver each course consecutively over a three-week period. Michelle and team successfully delivered the first course before Christmas (Introduction to Northern Government).

Michelle grew up in Belleville, Ontario. She ended up in Kingston where she went to Queens’s University taking the Concurrent Education program. She spent time teaching in Mexico and then headed back to Canada (Halifax) to pursue a Master of Arts in Health Education degree. Michelle spent 13 years in Nunavut, the first 5 teaching in the high arctic community of Pond Inlet (while running a B&B in the community!) and 8 years in Iqaluit. While in Iqaluit, she was a Program Support Teacher at Inuksuk High School then became the Executive Director of Skills Canada Nunavut. She has worked for WorldSkills International as the WorldSkills Premiere Experience Coordinator.

While recognizing the importance of governance, Michelle has spent many years ensuring that policies, procedures, and training opportunities address operational requirements of any organization; what looks good on paper must be transferable to the daily operations of an organization.

Michelle loves to cook (and eat)... and she’s a yoga and meditation enthusiast.