About The Founders

Global Network was formed in the spring of 2015 in response to a growing demand for our founding team members to collaborate, to combine our fields of expertise and experience, and to better serve our respective clients on an increasing range of projects of ever-increasing scope. Since that time, our new alliance has already grown its own client base to span most provinces in Canada and several states in the U.S.

Norm Taylor, President

Norm has practiced for over 35 years as an independent advisor, educator, researcher, author and moderator. For the past 20 years his practice has been concentrated almost exclusively on policing, public safety and criminal justice concerns, at both the policy and operational levels, in Canada and abroad. Norm co-founded and has served since 2002 as the Program Director for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) Executive Global Studies Program, through which he has led over 150 police executives through research studies in 35 countries.

Since 2008, while continuing his general practice nationally, Norm has served as the Future of Policing Consultant to the Province of Saskatchewan, and since 2012 he has served as a Senior Advisor to that province’s Deputy Minister of Justice: Corrections and Policing. His 2010 report to the provincial cabinet set the stage for a collaborative, whole-of-government approach to community safety and well-being (CSWB) that has since drawn national and international attention for its effectiveness at reducing crime and yielding improvements across a wide range of other social indicators. More recently, as many communities in the Province of Ontario began to pursue a new ministry-led Strategy for a Safer Ontario built upon similar concepts of CSWB, Norm and his growing team of associates have been supporting those efforts, and he also serves as a Special Advisor to Ontario’s Deputy Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

Norm is also a member of the national steering body on the Economics of Policing and Community Safety, the CACP’s International Committee, and he is a founding member of the Canadian Cyber Crime Advisory Committee. In 2016, Norm was named by the board of the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance (CSKA) to serve as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being. More background on Norm and his private practice work can be found at www.NetL3.com

Norm is a founding partner of the Global Network for Community Safety.

Brent Kalinowski, VP

Brent Kalinowski retired in 2013 from the Prince Albert Police Service after career of 27 years, which extended his abilities through a range of policing duties, with a career emphasis in major crime investigations. A keen, successful, and dedicated investigator, Brent received numerous commendations and awards for his work throughout his investigative career.

During the last 3 years of his service, and with a shared vision for change, Brent became one of the founding members of the now widely adopted initiative Community Mobilization Prince Albert, involving community stakeholders which confronted traditional methods of service delivery. Brent's unique knowledge and experience then led him to a position with the Building Partnerships to Reduce Crime consultant team within the Saskatchewan Government. Here, he was able to focus his efforts on expanding the risk driven initiatives across a number of additional communities throughout the province.

Since retiring, Brent has relocated to the province of Ontario where he formed Sum-C Consulting Inc., and through his independent practice, has been instrumental in developing a similar model for community safety and wellness within North Bay; as well as a number of other Ontario communities. Brent also became active provincially, serving as an advisor to the Ontario Working Group (OWG) on Collaborative Risk-Driven Community Safety and Well-Being, and now internationally as a founding partner in the Global Network for Community Safety.

As a founding member of Community Mobilization Prince Albert and a Building Partnerships Consultant for the province of Saskatchewan, and now as a partner in The Global Network, Brent has guided more communities through the adoption of these models than anyone else, having directly supported implementations and adaptations in over 30 cities, towns, regions and First Nations communities in Canada and the US and he continues to support the evolution of collaborative, risk-driven models across Canada and internationally.

As an active stakeholder and contributor to the Ontario Working Group 2013-14, he served as a member of the Advisory team for OWG 2014-15. Brent was a featured contributor to the National Policy Makers Dialogue on Information Sharing in January 2015 and the author of the Canadian Police Chief Magazine article entitled If We Want to Change the Outcomes, We May Have to Change Ourselves (Winter 2016).

Brent's policing perspective and subsequent collaborations, have provided a unique knowledge base and skill set and has appeared as a keynote speaker across the country. Brent is an active member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Brent Kalinowski is a founding partner of the Global Network for Community Safety.

Lisa Taylor - VP

Lisa Taylor is a creative designer, communicator, policy strategist, social innovator, and foresight professional, with a diverse career that has evolved through more than two decades of experience as a consultant and advisor to organizations and executives in both the public and private sectors.

Passionate about social justice, Ms. Taylor has focused a large portion of her consulting work for the last 10 years around building effective collaborations among health and human services and policing and public safety agencies. For over 8 years, Ms. Taylor served as an advisor to the Deputy Minister of Justice in Saskatchewan. She is recognized globally as one of the original architects of the Hub - Situation Table model, and the broader Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) movement which grew out of Saskatchewan almost 10 years ago, and which she and others have since introduced in over 100 communities across the country and in the US. In 2014, for this original work in Saskatchewan, Ms. Taylor and a small team of ministry officials and advisors were recognized and received the Premier’s Award for Excellence in Public Service: Innovation Category. Ms. Taylor has also been a part of the advisory team to the Deputy Minister of Community Safety in Ontario, and she continues to work with a large number of communities and governments across Canada and the US to advance their community safety and well-being initiatives.

In addition to her consulting and advisory work, Ms. Taylor has been a featured presenter and moderator at major events in Canada and abroad, keyed to a variety of topics including social media, criminal intelligence, the opioid crisis, Indigenous futures, advanced analytics, globalization, over-representation in the justice system, and public health.

In parallel, Ms. Taylor has utilized her expertise and interest in strong visual design leading her Toronto based Media Production firm, Ribbet Inc. Operating for over 15 years, Ribbet has offered services in Communications Consulting, Graphic Design and Branding, Web Design and Development, and Video Production to a diverse range of high-profile clients such as LEGO, Kraft Canada, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), RPNAO and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP).

Lisa Taylor is a founding partner of the Global Network for Community Safety, and holds a Masters in Design focused on Strategic Foresight and Innovation.

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