As principal of the Tewanee Consulting Group, Tewanee specializes in public relations, communications and strategic planning. He has worked extensively with First Nations in the area of community consensus building, as well as providing advisory services to the private sector, and local, provincial and federal governments.
A member of the Squamish Nation, he continues to work with several First Nations - as well as his own, to develop strategies that will improve community wide decision-making. Tewanee served eight years on the Squamish Nation Council and has a talent for facilitation and coordinating diverse groups to identify and achieve their goals. He has utilized his skills and now owns and operates a Consulting Group that has contributed to a broad range of initiatives including First Nations federal legislation, First Nations Land Management, Strategic Communications and Governance.
Currently, as the Executive Director for the Four Host First Nations Secretariat, Tewanee is working with VANOC and its partners to develop meaningful Aboriginal participation in the planning, hosting and staging of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. He has worked extensively with First Nations in the area of community consensus building as well as providing advisory services to the private sector, and local provincial, and federal governments.
Through his leadership, for the first time in Olympic history, a third brand, (other than the IOC and the host city of Vancouver) will be allowed on official Olympic communications - the brand of the Four Host Nations Society.
First Nations and the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
Tewanee Joseph is changing the face of Aboriginal communications forever – not just in Canada, but worldwide! We’re talking social networking across First Nations cultures; communications training in print and on-line; and the use of modern tools to tell the story of the First Peoples in this country.
As Executive Director of the Four Host First Nations Society, Tewanee has built partnerships to turn the 2010 Winter Games into a world stage for not only the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, but also other First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples across Canada. Tewanee’s keynote speech will bring you up to date on what Aboriginal communications will look like in Canada in years to come and how his skills as a communicator have helped him to reach out to Indigenous Peoples at home and around the globe.
Come meet this amazing communicator and experience the culture and protocol of the Four Host First Nations, as they welcome you to British Columbia, to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games and to the CPRS National Conference.
