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Executive Director, IFSSA
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Omar has been teaching in the UofA's MBA program for more than a decade. His accomplishments include helping establish the Social Enterprise Fund, building a eco-retrofit co-op, co-founding intentional communities, having his work profiled by the Kennedy Centre for the Arts, CNN, Money 2.0 and others, as well as being awarded EMCN's Rise Award for Community Leadership, and University of Alberta's Mentor of the Year.

He has been able to help a small social service organization, IFSSA, go from 2 to 25+ employees, help remote Indigenous communities with economic development, and build a management consulting firm, ALIF Partners, that embodies an ethos of service.

His journey has taken him from small town Alberta to global development work in Nigeria, Ghana, & Tanzania. It has led him through six countries back to Canada.

Broader Economic, Social and Political Factors, Language, Literacy and Learning, Social Integration, Rights, Culture and Security, Child, Youth, and Family Wellbeing
ESPO (NGO)
Canada