Nora Sobolov

Nora Sobolov, for 25 years has led major multi-party negotiations to create changes in policy and to create new programs at all levels of government. As an executive in the cooperative, nonprofit and business sectors and as a VP of government relations for the cooperative and credit union system, Nora has created and led many successful campaigns and policy development programs, among them the development and introduction of a new Cooperatives Act, which received support from every province, the development of a new funding mechanism for support centres for people who were homeless or in danger of becoming so and funding for a new Lung Health Framework. As a mentor and coach, she has worked with leaders in the cooperative, nonprofit and private sector and was a the chair of a two CEO groups which provided leaders in the private and nonprofit and government sector with a sounding board and planning process to move forward on key issues for their organizations.

Nora holds an LLM in negotiation and Dispute resolution from Osgoode Hall, a MSW in nonprofit management from Carleton University and certificates in coaching and ethics.