Shailoo Bedi

Executive Director, LTSI

University of Victoria

I am proud to be involved with LLEAD as a curriculum designer and instructor since 2018. I am deeply passionate about leadership development and supporting participants in their learning and development.

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In my professional capacity at the University of Victoria, I am the Executive Director, Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation (LTSI).

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In my previous role I reported both to LTSI and to the University Libraries, leading initiatives which fostered student engagement and success including coordinating the undergraduate student research awards, developing programming to support student academic writing and integrity, learning strategies programs, and serves as the managing editor for the university’s undergraduate research journal, the Arbutus Review. With the Libraries, I am responsible for leading the libraries’ instructional program, the Learning Commons, and facilities planning. For both divisions, I lead assessment and evaluation indicatives. I also believe in being an active academic citizen and sit on several campus wide committees including the Human Research Ethics Board and the University of Victoria’s Board of Governors.

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I completed a PhD in Education – Curriculum and Instruction in 2015 and I am currently an adjunct assistant professor with the Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies department at UVic where I teach graduate courses in the area of diversity, anti-racism education, leadership and narrative inquiry. I continue to research and write and have recently co-edited a book Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies with Facet Publishing.

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I strongly believe in community service and I am involved the broader Victoria community where I serves on the Board for Artemis Place Society, an independent school that provides holistic social and emotional support and high school education to young women, young women who are pregnant or parenting and all trans-youth.

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As an immigrant settler from India, I am a grateful visitor on the Lekwungen territories.

Paul Burry

Library Director

Prince George Public Library

Paul Burry is the Library Director at Prince George Public Library (PGPL) in central British Columbia, on the beautiful ancestral territory of the Lheidli T’enneh.

Paul began his career in libraries in 2000, after earning a Library Technician’s Diploma from Langara College in Vancouver. After ten years working in academic libraries, he completed his MLIS at the University of Washington, and began working as a librarian at PGPL in 2011. After working in several different positions at PGPL, he became the LibraryDirector in 2019. Paul participated in the first LLEAD cohort in 2016, and is excited about the opportunity to support the leadership development of other aspiring leaders in the profession.

Corrina Chetley-Irwin

Executive Director, Employee Experience

Edmonton Public Library

Corrina Chetley-Irwin is the Executive Director, Employee Experience at EPL. In this role, Corrina has overall accountability for leadership and execution of EPL’s human resources strategies that support the achievement of EPL’s strategic and business plans.

Corrina brings over 20 years of experience in human resources, strategy development and business planning in both the private and public sector as a leader, consultant, and educator. Her professional experience is supported by an MBA and a B. Comm with a major in Labour Relations, both from the University of Alberta.

She is passionate about learning, conversations, and relationships. She is an energetic leader who is committed to building strong and trusting relationships both within EPL and with the community. When not engaged in professional pursuits Corrina spends her time hiking, biking, skiing, golfing, climbing, and reading, ideally in the mountain

Pat Chong

Manager, Policy & Planning,

Vancouver Public Library

With over 20 years in leadership positions, Pat brings a wealth of experience working with people in private and public sector organizations. 

She is the Manager of Policy and Planning at the Vancouver Public Library where, in addition to supporting the library’s long-range planning and policy development, she is currently leading a strategic initiative to improve equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. 

Outside of her library role, Pat is a Certified Professional Coach and Certified Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator where she works with individuals and groups to support their learning, growth, and well-being.  Her passion is supporting people to discover their personal strengths, leadership presence, and unique ways of influencing change. Patricia holds an MBA, CPCC, and ACC.

Scott Hargrove

Chief Executive Officer,

Fraser Valley Regional Library

Scott Hargrove is CEO of Fraser Valley Regional Library. His work in libraries began in 1988 as a page at Greater Victoria Public Library, but his early career was in education. He later in various positions at the University of Victoria’s McPherson Library and the moved to Ontario as Manager of IT for Burlington Public Library.

He moved back to BC, to FVRL as Director of IT and then Director Corporate Services until 2015 when he became CEO. Under his leadership FVRL has embraced significant technological advances as well as important management restructuring.

He holds an Executive Master of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State University and a Master of Science (Computer Science) and a B.Ed. 

Salvy Trojman

Managing Director,

Trojman Corporation

Salvy is Managing Director, The Trojman Corporation. While working part time at the Scott Library during his undergrad years at York University, his manager said to him, “You love information, and you love helping people. You should become a publisher’s rep.” Salvy had no idea what that was, but the journey began.

He began with R.R. Bowker Publishing. They were converting Books in Print and many other print directories to CD-ROM technology. In 2000, Salvy moved to Thomson Gale and quickly worked his way up the ranks. During his 20+ years at Gale managing the Canadian academic market, Salvy built tremendous customer relationships with faculty and librarians, and is well respected among his industry peers for his support of libraries of all types.

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In 2021 he established The Trojman Corporation to represent the newest and greatest ePublishers and content services, and create new products and solutions together with librarians.

Rebecca Jones

Associate Director, LLEAD Program

Managing Partner, Dysart & Jones

Few things make me happier than seeing people reach the potential that's meaningful for them. I've pursued my passion for 35+ years to supporting those working in libraries and information services to grow their skills, stretch their capabilities, and believe in themselves. We work in a fabulous sector, energized by the synergy of those in public, college, school and academic libraries, and corporate and organization-specific knowledge and information management.  

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As Managing Partner of Dysart and Jones Associates, I've led more than 100 projects with libraries, non-profits and information-intensive departments in public, academic, consortial, corporate and charitable environments in Canada and the US. Most of these projects focused on strategic planning, organizational design, conflict resolution, service reshaping and management team decision-making.

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I also felt it was important to live our clients' operational and organizational realities, so I regularly stepped into organizational management roles:

• 2015 - 2018 I was thrilled to be Director of Neighbourhood Services and Branches for Brampton Library. 

• 2004 - 2009 as Director of the Professional Learning Centre @ University of Toronto's iSchool we collaborated with Centre staff and faculty to redesign the key service offerings and Certificate Programs to blend virtual and in-class courses. We met our revenue target of $1M.

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Early in my career I worked for 11 years at Imperial Oil Ltd., where I was responsible for IT end-user training, archives, records management, and libraries. It was at IOL that I was taught to facilitate self-managing teams - which led me to where I am today.

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In 2015 Dr. Ken Haycock ​asked me if I'd work on the design and facilitation for a leadership development program he was building for BC InterLINK. What a blast - what an honour! And here we are.... join us. 

M.J. DElia

Director, LLEAD Program

CEO, Thirdway Think

Organizations rise and fall on the quality of their leadership. It’s that simple - and that’s why I love working with the LLEAD program.

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I became a rather reluctant manager when the head of our department left the organization unexpectedly. I agreed to lead our team temporarily until a suitable replacement could be found. Apparently, I enjoyed the opportunity more than I expected because I’ve been managing people and leading teams ever since.

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I am a librarian by profession, but a teacher at heart. During my career, I’ve been fortunate to teach courses in the University of Guelph’s Bachelor of Commerce program, in the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, and in the Faculty of Management at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). I have found that the best way to learn something is to try to teach it to someone else. For me, the classroom environment, whether onsite or online, offers a perfect laboratory to experiment with different techniques and approaches. Instructing thousands of students over the years taught me the importance of staying curious, asking good questions, and taking calculated risks.

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LLEAD is a perfect blend of my passions: teaching, entrepreneurship, and leadership development. Designing the curriculum, defining signature learning experiences, and coaching emerging leaders are three of my most favourite things. If the most important job of a leader is to identify and grow the next generation of leaders, then count me in.