About Our Company

Four Directions Management Services Ltd. is a wholly owned Aboriginal consulting firm, established in 1993.

Four Directions Management Services Ltd. has a large network of consultants with a variety of skills and abilities to meet any management, facilitation, research or strategic planning goal an organization or community may have.

The President/Principal of Four Directions Management Services Ltd., Dan George, has extensive experience in negotiation, facilitation, proposal and program development, fundraising, strategic planning, and community-based planning.  He also has a thorough knowledge of federal and provincial policies, programs and strategies.

Our Vision

We dream of a world where individuals and families are cherished; organizations and communities are supported; multiple points of view are respected; and cultural diversity is valued.

Our Principles

B - We will balance the needs of all of our partners by listening generously and with curiosity.

R - We will role-model respect in all our behaviors and actions.

I - We will operate with high individual and organizational integrity.

D - We will embrace and encourage diversity.

G - We will always have an attitude of gratitude.

E - We will strive for excellence in all our ventures.

Our Mission

In pursuit of our Vision we will ... build bridges of better understanding between Aboriginal Peoples, Industry, Local Communities and Governments... to inform and realize greater collaboration that leads to strategic alignment of activities.

Our Strategic Goals

1. To ensure two-way communication that is timely, relevant and purposeful.
   
   
2. To adapt to fast-paced change, responding quickly to partner and community demands.
   
   
3. To continuously improve our core competencies through up-to-date skills and training development.
   
   
4. To ensure the effective use of new technology while respecting traditional ways of knowing, seeing and being.

Personnel

The President/Principal of Four Directions Management Services Ltd., Dan George, has extensive experience in negotiation, facilitation, proposal and program development, fundraising, strategic planning, and community-based planning.  He also has a thorough knowledge of federal and provincial policies, programs and strategies.

Mr. George has held long-term management positions in the non-profit sector (Executive Director, Prince George Native Friendship Centre), as well as with First Nations Governments (Chief Negotiator, Office of the Wet’suwet’en) and government partnerships (CEO, First Nations Mountain Pine Beetle Initiative)

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Teresa George (photo at right) has been an associate with FDMS since it's inception. Her past experience includes coordinating community needs assessments and also participated as a researcher on a longitudinal study  of high risk Aboriginal youth and illicit drug use. She is currently a Director for the Central Interior Native Health Society in Prince George, BC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zandra Wycotte-Ross, Associate of Four Directions Management Services Ltd., has extensive experience in community research, facilitation, program development, program management, team development and event coordination. 

Ms. Ross has worked in the Aboriginal non-profit sector (Director of Education and Employment, PGNFC), government partnership (Executive Assistant, First Nations Mountain Pine Beetle Initiative), general non-profit sector (Heart and Stroke Foundation and Big Brothers Big Sisters) and international (Philippines-Canada Environmental and Economic Management Project).  In addition, she has been a Consultant with Four Directions Management Services Ltd. since 1993.

Click here for the curriculum vitae of Zandra Wycotte-Ross