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  • Testimonial

    “Working with Adaptive Edge was what a collaborative experience should look like. [They] were insightful, professional, and extraordinarily quick to ‘get’ our world. Their ability to be both intellectually rigorous and creative, professional and out-of-the-box, is truly a rare find.”

    Yoni Gordis and Beth Glick
    CLI Center for Leadership Initiatives, Vancouver BC
    www.leadingup.org

Nicole Boyer

Managing Director, Adaptive Edge

Nicole is a strategist, future thinker and facilitator of complex change projects across sectors and systems. She founded Adaptive Edge in 2004 to create cutting-edge, collaborative approaches to tackling the critical long-term challenges facing her clients.

Over the last 15 years, Nicole has worked in over a dozen global industries and sectors. Clients include leaders from Fortune 100 companies, governments, and civil society organizations. She learned her unique craft at Global Business Network (GBN), a pioneering think-tank in San Francisco, best known for its network of important future thinkers and future-thinking organizations.

Nicole is also a teacher, writer and social entrepreneur. She is driven by a passion to increase leaders’ adaptive and creative capacities in the face of change. To that end, she led and designed innovative executive development programs in leading institutions such as CEDEP and INSEAD in France. Nicole is also an active blogger, and a contributor to the book “Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century”.  As a social entrepreneur, she is an active part of the Hub community and helped found its counterpart in Paris, France.

Prior to her futures work, Nicole worked for a venture capital firm financing digital infrastructure in Asia. Before that she was a pollster, market researcher, and political speechwriter in Canada. Nicole earned a B.A and M.A. in political science with honors from the University of British Columbia; her graduate work focused on technology policy.

A global citizen by nature, Nicole has lived Singapore, Paris and San Francisco (twice), and spent much time in the global south.  Originally from Vancouver BC, her hobbies include: sailing (she raced for Canada’s national development team), hiking, reading, writing, and cooking with her husband, friends and family.

Betina Schonberger

Practice Associate, Adaptive Edge

Betina is a practice associate with Adaptive Edge. She is actively involved in client and partner relations, providing project management, facilitation and process design support. She is also responsible for marketing and business development.

Prior to joining the Adaptive Edge team, Betina spent 15 years in corporate America working for and with Fortune 100s such as FedEx, Merck Pharmaceuticals, American Express, eBay, Google and Delta. She has experience in various capacities within Business Development and Marketing, ranging from New Product Development and Database Marketing to Strategy Development and Strategic Alliance Marketing.

Betina’s passion lies in enabling people to engage meaningfully in the workplace. She strives to unleash individual talents, create powerful relationships and inspire team commitment. She specializes in helping individuals, teams and organizations with strategy and leadership development, meeting facilitation, and team building.

Betina holds a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia, and a Master in Business Administration from Thunderbird: The School of Global Management.

When not spending time with the Adaptive Edge team, Betina loves to challenge herself athletically in support of a good cause, including marathons and triathlons for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She also enjoys traveling, wine tasting, hiking and skiing. Being a native of Vancouver, BC, time in nature is an important part of her life.