Changing our Transit Culture

 

With a background in commerce, strategic sustainability, and complex systems, driven by his concern for the environment, Dan’s passion is social innovation and sustainable solutions.

 

 
International Business Diploma — Seneca
— 2001 – 2003
Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management — Royal Roads University
— 2003 – 2004
Masters of Science, Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability — Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola
— 2006 – 2007
Taught for three and a half years in South Korea, at an private English academy, a government funded camp and Soongsil University
— 2006 – 2009
Moved to Kingston, Ontario
— 2009
Community Producer/Host — YourTV Kingston
— 2010 – Present
Developed the nationally recognized Kingston Transit High School Bus Pass Program
— 2012 – 2016
Enactus Canada John Dobson Fellow
— 2016
Helped build Kingston Transit to develop the Kingston Transit Field Trip Pass Program
— 2017
Designed, created and managed the Innovation Hub @ St. Lawrence College (SLC).
— 2017 – 2020
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ “Sustainable Communities Conference” – Inaugural Inspire Award
— 2018
TEDx Ottawa at the National Arts Centre, “Throwing Our Car Culture Under the Bus”
— 2019
Completed Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Atlanta, Georgia
— 2019
Participated in the Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre Summer Initiative
— 2020
Partnered with the Small Change Fund to seek collaborative opportunities to scale youth transit programming to other communities
— 2021
Working with the Small Change Fund, to evolve the highly successful Kingston Transit High School Bus Pass Program into Get on the Bus, a national movement to work with communities to invest in youth transit education and free youth passes
— 2023

With diverse and entrepreneurial networks, he creates collaboration between community members to enact lasting change.

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