An Evening With Sean Moore

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Date: March 30, 2016

Location: Burnaby Centre for Community Inclusion

Topic: Strategic Inquiry: Listening as a Key Advocacy Tool

Presenter: Sean Moore, Principal, Advocacy School

Format: 2 hour interactive workshop

This workshop, an early warm-up session for this spring’s Thinking Like a Movement retreat, is designed to introduce and guide participants through Strategic Inquiry.

Strategic Inquiry is a straight-forward, time-efficient process of exploring and assessing the political, policy, process and “people” environment of an issue before launching an attempt to influence a decision by government or other public or private authority.

Themes to be addressed include:
• The whats and whys of “Strategic Inquiry”?
• The central importance of getting to the right “ask” in any advocacy effort
• The elements of “persuasion and influence”
• What a “strategic inquiry” exercise looks like and what it should produce
How to get started and how to use what you learn in Strategic Inquiry

More About Sean Moore:

Sean Moore is Founder and Principal of Advocacy School and one of Canada’s most experienced practitioners, writers and teachers on public-policy advocacy. He has more than 30 years experience in public-policy and advocacy related to local, provincial/state and federal government affairs in Canada and the United States.

He is a former Partner and Public-Policy Advisor with the national law firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, a former president of what was then Canada's largest government relations consulting firm and a vice-president of a Washington, DC-based public-policy research and consulting company.

Today, through Advocacy School, he and his colleagues design and conduct professional-development training in advocacy for industry and professional associations and NGOs. He has taught graduate courses on public-policy advocacy at Carleton University’s Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration, the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management Executive MBA program and the University of Waterloo’s Graduate Program in Social Innovation.

He also advises law firms, corporations, NGOs and associations on the conduct and management of their public-policy activities as well as their compliance with federal and provincial "rules" of lobbying and advocacy.

Sean is a graduate of Carleton University with a B.A. in Political Science and a DPA in Public Administration and this year was the recipient of the 2013 Bissett Distinguished Alumni Award from Carleton ‘s Graduate School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA).