Dal Brodhead is currently CEO of the New Economy Development Group Inc., a firm which designs and implements economic and social development projects with disadvantaged groups and communities in Canada and overseas. His responsibilities include managing a micro-credit project in Bangladesh presently lending to 353,000 landless people. Dal Brodhead was previously a senior manager with several federal government departments including Employment & Immigration, Environment, Fisheries, Industry, and Secretary of State; and has authored several papers and lectured on the subject of community development. As a volunteer, he currently chairs the Community Enterprise Centre of Ottawa-Carleton, as well as being President of the Metcalfe & District Citizens Association. Dal Brodhead was a founding Board member of the Common Heritage Program and Inter Pares. 

Joanne Harack is an adult educator with more than 20 years' experience in the education, voluntary and private sectors. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto in 1978. The author of numerous papers and monographs on adult education, training, and human resource development, she is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Human Resources Professional (HRPAO) and a Director of Canadians for Health Research. As Vice President, Human Resources, Connaught Laboratories Limited, she was responsible for all facets of the human resources function, most notably industrial relations, employment equity, employee communications and educational partnerships, and served as the first President of Cities in Schools, North York, a community-based network dedicated to keeping at-risk youth in school. Joanne Harack is currently the Vice President, Human Resources, MDS Laboratory Services Division.