LURA Consulting
Denise Souedian-O'Leary is an accomplished project manager and business owner with extensive experience in community management and program development. Currently serving as a Project Manager at LURA Consulting since October 2023, Denise also owns The Lansdowne Cone ice cream parlour, overseeing operations, staffing, and business marketing. Previous roles include Director of Community Wealth Strategy at The Center for Social Innovation and various positions at the Centre for Social Innovation, demonstrating a strong commitment to social initiatives and community support. Denise's experience further includes managing transitional housing programs for youth at Palmer Home and developing youth-focused programs at RAFT and Ternopil Orphanage in Ukraine. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Arts in Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies, alongside studies in Organizational Leadership.
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LURA Consulting
As leaders in collaborative community sustainability planning, Lura has partnered with public agencies and their communities to achieve economic, environmental and community prosperity for present and future generations. For over 30 years, we have worked with governments, their partners, stakeholders, and communities to develop collaborative policies, plans and programs. Lura’s key strength is our ability to develop strong processes, and provide the essential scientific and technical basis that enables Lura, and the communities we work with to analyse and link community, economic, and environmental values, and create the common ground. This big picture approach to planning enables municipal leaders to easily move plans and projects forward. Every year, Lura delivers hundreds of projects for municipal, provincial, national and international clients. For every project, we are committed to ensuring our team provides the upmost in terms of excellence in project design and delivery, quality, and service. We have a solid reputation amongst our clients for going above and beyond the specifications of our commitments to ensure that our clients and their communities are proud of the plans we develop together.