James Stauch

James Stauch has authored or coauthored many guides, scans, and trend analyses on a range of contemporary social issues. A social innovation and systems change educator and consultant based in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada, he is Executive in Residence at the J Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick and Executive in Residence, Innovation North, at the Ivey School of Business, Western University. James has served as Co-chair of the Banff Systems Summit and as Complex Systems Strategist with ATCO’s SpaceLab. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University, where he developed social innovation, leadership, and systems-focused learning programs for undergraduate students and the broader community. James has also been a foundation executive and philanthropy consultant, which included designing and managing Arctic and Northern programming with the Gordon Foundation. Having chaired several national and international grantmaking networks and consortia, James is currently a board member of Alberta Ecotrust Foundation and a member of the editorial advisory board of The Philanthropist journal.