GOVERN for IMPACT's Operational Leadership

Karen Fryday-Field, BScPT, MCPA, MBA, GSP
GOVERN for IMPACT, CEO
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Karen Fryday-Field has over twenty years of experience in both public and for-profit leadership and consulting, with a strong record and proven success. 

Karen is the Senior Partner of The Meridian Edge Leadership and Governance Consulting Group located in London, Ontario, Canada. Meridian Edge provides consulting services to Board and Senior Leadership Teams. Karen consults regularly with Boards of Directors to address governance effectiveness and to develop new ways to add value at the governance level. She has been a Governance Consultant and researcher since 1993 and completed the Policy Governance Academy Program in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996.

Karen achieved the position of Ivey Scholar while graduating from the Executive MBA, at the Ivey School of Business at Western University in 1998. She has served for several years in senior leadership positions at a large teaching hospital in London, Ontario as well as in several community based public and privately owned health care organizations and services. She also served as the Chief Facilitator for organizational re-engineering at Victoria Hospital in collaboration with Ernst & Young prior to the formation of the London Health Sciences Centre.

Karen completed an international benchmarking study on corporate governance best practices which included an evaluation of the unique work of the Board, communication and accountability systems within corporate governance, and the roles and relationship of the Board and Chief Officer. She has completed several other externally funded research projects and Chairs the International Policy Governance Association Demonstrated Impact (Research) Committee.

Additionally, she has written several articles and presented hundreds of workshops and seminars. Karen is committed to enabling organizations to lead and embrace change in order to accomplish their End outcomes.  

Jeremiah Dameron, PMP (he, him)
GOVERN for IMPACT, Director, Affiliate Services
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Jeremiah Dameron serves as Director, Affiliate Services at GOVERN for IMPACT. Jeremiah is familiar with Policy Governance and loves learning more about the diversity and richness of opinions that make up our "GOVERN" community. Through his consulting practice, Jeremiah provides his clients support in the areas of project management, participatory facilitation, and community engagement. He has over two decades of experience working with government, nonprofit, and purpose-driven organizations.

Jeremiah has led small, community-driven volunteer and collaborative initiatives, as well as managed large, national pilot programs that brought together representatives from different geographies, sectors, and resources to achieve impact. Jeremiah earned his BA at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute (PMI), earned a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace certificate from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, and earned a certificate in Collective Impact/Community Impact from the Center for Nonprofit Management located in Nashville, TN.

Jeremiah currently serves as Board Chair for Rocket City Pride, an all-volunteer led 501c3 organization working to amplify visibility and awareness in support of the LGBTQ+ communities and their allies. He also serves on the Board of his local PMI Chapter in North Alabama as Vice President of Volunteers, and volunteers with his local United Way to support collective impact initiatives focused on strengthening healthy communities. Jeremiah was born and raised in the southern United States, spent 15 years in New York City, and currently splits his time in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia where he tends to spend all his free time spoiling his two rescue dogs.

Mark Milton
GOVERN for IMPACT, Director, Accounting
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Mr. Mark Milton, serves as Director, Accounting at GOVERN for IMPACT.  Mark is an experienced bookkeeper and certified tax consultant.  He has more than 25 years of accounting experience. Mark is a meticulous bookkeeper and we are very pleased to welcome him to this contract position. 

Mr. Milton is familiar with GOVERN for IMPACT because he is married to Carol Milton, Executive and Research Coordinator at Meridian Edge Leadership & Governance Consulting.  Carol is heavily involved in supporting GOVERN administratively.

Mark will be responsible for GOVERN's financial reporting, accounting records, budgeting, and accounts payable and receivable.

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