Our Facilitators

Senior Building Plan Examiner, City of Winnipeg

Shawn Krenz C.E.T. is currently the City of Winnipeg’s Senior Building Plan Examiner.  He is a Certified Engineering Technologist and graduated in 1998 with a diploma in Design and Construction Technology from Red River College.  He has 24 years of experience within the industry related to drafting, design, and fire protection.

Shawn has been with the City of Winnipeg’s Plan Examination Branch since 2004 and has been in his current role as Senior Building Plan Examiner since 2018.  He is responsible for supervising the Building Plan Examination staff that undertake the architectural fire and life-safety review of plans related to new construction, additions and alterations of commercial buildings, to ensure compliance with applicable building codes and by-laws.

Associate Director, Maxim Consulting Group

Stephane McShane is the Associate Director at Maxim Consulting Group responsible for the evaluation and implementation processes with clients. Stephane works with construction-related firms of all sizes to evaluate business practices and assist with management challenges. Stephane’s experience in the industry has given her extensive knowledge on the operational challenges companies face. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, executive coaching, organizational assessments, strategic planning, project execution, business development, productivity improvement and training programs. Stephane is an internationally-recognized speaker, mentor and teacher. Her ability to motivate, inspire and create confidence among work groups is extremely rare and very effective.

Stephane possesses the rare combination of talent from being in the field as an apprentice, electrician and foreman, and then working her way through each operational chair within a successful electrical construction firm. This talent is what makes her tremendously effective at operational and organizational assessments today. She has successfully conquered every operational position from being an estimating trainee through executive management. She has built, trained and led her teams to become the undisputed leaders in their markets. She is able to quickly identify organizational positives and negatives and assess appropriate action steps and throughputs.

Suzanne Checkryn, P.Eng., PMP, MBA, is a professional engineer with 25 years of experience working in engineering, construction, and consulting. Throughout her career, Suzanne has worked with major firms to complete projects on schedule and to overcome significant engineering and construction challenges. She has been involved in a variety of projects, including multibillion-dollar projects with complex engineering, supply chain, construction, project controls, risk management, and change management requirements. Suzanne has extensive field experience working with owners, engineers, consultants, general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers. 

In her current role as Revay’s Director, Prairies, Suzanne is responsible for the firm’s Calgary office which services Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. She has completed numerous mandates involving delay, loss of productivity, and cost quantification. She has been retained as expert for referee, mediation, arbitration, and litigation, and is a qualified expert.

LM Architectural Group

Terry Danelley, FRAIC, MAA, has over 30 years of experience with LM Architectural Group including 20 years as a principal, directing the firm’s educational facilities team in programming, planning and design of public, private and First Nations educational facilities, including daycare facilities, K-12 schools and post-secondary projects.

Terry’s experience includes a wide range of different building typologies and scales covering the institutional, educational, residential, office/commercial, and industrial market sectors. He has extensive experience in the design-bid-build, design-build, construction management and integrated project team delivery methods. 

Terry now acts as a special advisor to the partnership; serving LM’s education group and undertaking design and planning assignments related to that sector of the firm.

President, BGC Partners Inc.

Tim Williams MBA, B.Econ., CPA, GSC, is the President of BGC Partners Inc. Tim has worked with numerous construction companies for over twenty years and earned his Gold Seal certification as a project manager. He is an experienced and sought-after trainer who has trained construction owners and managers on behalf of construction industry associations across Western Canada.

Walter has extensive experience earned through over 40 years in the consulting engineering industry with CBCL Limited. During his career he has served as department manager, project manager, corporate quality manager (ISO 9001), corporate risk manager), principal, director, and Chair of the Board at a major Atlantic Canada based engineering and environmental services company.

Upon retirement from CBCL Limited, Walter opened Act 3 Advisory Services, to continue a life-long obsession with all things related to project delivery in the design and construction industry.

Walter’s design and construction interest center around standard practices, project delivery methods, cost planning and control, risk management, and dispute resolution. Those interests resulted in tenures as Chair, Canadian Design Build Institute (CDBI); President, Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS); Chair, Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC); and Board Member, Canadian Construction Association (CCA).  He has also served on several significant Task Teams including MasterFormat; CSC/CSI Uniform Drawing Systems; and the Integrated Delivery (IPD) Task Team.

Walter is the 2021 recipient of the Nova Scotia Consulting Engineers (CENS) Distinguished Service Award.

Wayne Newell Management & Seminar Services

For the past 35 years, Wayne has served in senior financial leadership roles and worked with contractors of all sizes throughout Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. Wayne earned his Certified Management Accountant (CMA now CPA) designation in 1972. Since then, no matter the size of the company, he has shown owners, managers and employees how to best perform, lead, and follow; all the while saving money and time.

Wayne was elected a life member of the Kinsmen Association for outstanding efforts and leadership in a volunteer role, having served as a Governor and leading 18 executives responsible for 96 clubs and 2700 members. For the last two decades Wayne has been focused on sharing his wealth of knowledge through training and has presented his Construction Management courses to over thousands of construction professionals from St. John’s to Victoria.

WH Strategic Drive Inc.

Wendy is the President of WH Strategic Drive Inc. a facilitation, training and consulting firm specializing in leadership, human resources, and human behaviour in the workplace. Wendy brings her experience as a human resources director and director of operations to organizational leaders from the front line up to senior management. 

Wendy has spent the last nine years working in the construction industry as an HR Director, a national safety officer and a strategic leadership advisor. Prior to that she fulfilled a role as a director of operations in Saskatchewan and Ontario. 

As a professional speaker, trainer and facilitator with the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, certified speaker and trainer with John Maxwell Leadership and the Gallup Strengths Organization along with a diploma as an adult educator, Wendy shares her skills, education and experience with her audience. Wendy recently published her first book: Rip Off the Bandaid! Have that tough conversation.

Wendy previously held a seat on the Divisional and Advisory Committee for the Construction Safety Association of Manitoba, and on the board of directors for Manitoba Women in Construction. Through engaging, energetic facilitations, presentations and consultations Wendy works to help individuals and organizations develop, grow and be better than they thought they could be.