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Mike Stolte & Associates (MSA) specializes in innovative performance evaluation, creative analysis and strategic planning with communities and organizations.

Mike Stolte, MSA's President, is also the Executive Director and founder of the Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL - www.theCIEL.com), based in Nelson, BC CANADA. He is the originator and co-creator of the Business Vitality Initiative (BVI), the Community Vitality Initiative (CVI), the Communities Matrix, the Community Check-up, and the Green Light Check-Up, all internationally recognized tools and processes to assess and strengthen communities.

Mike has spent many years working in the field of community, economic and business development. He has facilitated several national conferences and think-tanks, and has written many articles and publications in the field including Beyond Economic Survival - 97 Ways Small Communities Can Thrive - A Guide to Community Vitality.

Over the past few years Mike has made presentations in Australia, the United States, New Zealand and in many parts of Canada. His subject matter most often centres around the need and the method for creating entrepreneurial and vital communities. His work has been featured in Canadian Living magazine, on CBC Radio’s Sounds Like Canada, in the Globe & Mail, Profit Magazine, and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Mike is the current president of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. He serves on the steering committee of the National Rural Research Network of Canada and is a past member of the Co-operative Development Initiative of Canada. He holds degrees from Carleton University (MA in Public Administration) and the University of Western Ontario (Economics).

To reach Mike please e-mail him at mike@mikestolte.com or call him at 250-354-3737 (cell).