Maiden R. Manzanal-Frank

Maiden R. Manzanal-Frank

Maiden R. Manzanal-Frank is a global impact advisor, consultant, coach, instructor and speaker. As the Founder and President of GlobalStakes Consulting, she advises governments, businesses, non-profits, and international organizations to achieve their impacts with precision and sustainability.

She is the Bhichai and Khunying Charoye Rattakul Scholar for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the Rotary Peace Center in Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She is the award recipient of the Outstanding Diversity Outreach and Communications Award from the Fraser Valley Cultural Diversity Awards. She teachers at Red Deer College Polytechnic Division for Advanced Education and Rotary International Studies on Peace, Conflict Transformation and Development at Chulalongkorn University.

Having traveled in 33 countries and worked in 15 countries within two continents, she is one of the global impact thought leaders in Canada. Her professional and consulting experience spans short of two decades in global humanitarian and aid development, economic development, and cross-cultural management working with municipalities, international organizations, and advisory councils at the national, regional, and international levels. Her past projects involved extensive implementation in 14 countries in Asia and consulting work with international organizations such as the United Nations.

She is a sought-after speaker and has facilitated hundreds of workshops, training, and group processes for various organizations and agencies since 2001 and collaborated on initiatives for the women, children, and youth sector, immigration, settlement, and refugee sector, sustainability sector, and international development sector. She sat on governance boards, coalitions, and Communities of Practice (CoP) in these sectors as well. As an international speaker, she interfaced with audiences from the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, the US, Canada, HongKong, Uzbekistan, Belgium, Nepal, Nigeria, and a dozen more on a regular basis.

She is the author and writer of published articles, policy briefs, white papers, and reports on peace and conflict, immigration and settlement, sustainability, strategy, and leadership. She lectured at the University of the Fraser Valley Global Development Institute, College of the Holy Spirit Manila in the Philippines, and currently with Red Deer College’s School of Continuing Education.

As a Senior Consultant, she takes varied and complex assignments as an advisor and partner for solutions to strategy, governance, evaluation, performance management, and sustainability in public and private sectors in Canada and internationally. Her growing clients include the World Fair Trade Organization-Asia (Thailand), Abbotsford (now Archway) Community Services, Multicultural Helping House Society, Fraser Valley Local Immigration Partnership Council, and Justice Education Society International. She collaborated with the University of the Fraser Valley’s Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association, Innoweave, and Burman University’s Centre for Peace and Justice.

Using international best practices for impact, she is passionate about mentoring industry leaders and executives in business challenges and young innovators. She is currently a mentor at Monash University’s Master of International Development Practice and a mentor at Yunus Social Business, supporting social enterprises to achieve their social and economic impacts globally. She is a member of the Investment Readiness Committee of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, a business coach for the Edmonton Regional Innovation Network, and a mentor at Olds Entrepreneurship Centre in Alberta.

With over 15 years of social development experience, higher education, and global outreach, she has distilled vital insights and perspectives through my interactions, discourses, studies, and research in formal and informal ways. She brings a unique and well-differentiated approach to the theory and practice of international development, given my strong Asian roots and developing country origins.

Beyond charity and benevolence, there is more at stake that is lurking beyond the surface. Growing up in the sector and mentoring change leaders herself, she is convinced that this kind of thought-provoking book must be shared out there. She is not alone in this journey. She lives in Alberta, Canada.

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