About Bev
Beverley Simpson, RN, MS, CMC, is a nurse and an organizational consultant specializing in People, Teams and Systems development in health care agencies. She works closely with organizational leaders designing, planning and facilitating change projects; developing programs to strengthen team planning, collaboration and leadership; conducting practice and program assessments and planning enhancements to strengthen service delivery; designing and delivering management and leadership development initiatives. Her clients include numerous health care agencies seeking innovative solutions to complex practice and organizational issues.
Bev has an extensive health care background. Her broad experience in staff, management, education and project leadership roles, a University of Toronto teaching appointment, and a wide-ranging network of collegial relationships sustain her practice and her learning. She has developed expertise in understanding complex adaptive systems and gained knowledge in the development and application of many leadership and team performance tools including Appreciative Inquiry, Myers Briggs Type Inventory, Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Practices Inventory, Hay-McBer Kolb Learning Styles Inventory, True Colors, Thomas Kilmann Conflict Styles Inventory, and others.
Bev earned a Master of Science from the University of Toronto, a BScN from McGill University, and a certification in Human and Organizational Development, Planned Change and Process Consulting in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has served on boards, committees and task forces, and provided numerous consultations to professional organizations and government agencies. One of Bev’s greatest interests is the creation of innovations in health care education and learning. She worked closely with the University of Toronto, Faculty of Nursing to create the first Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Programs in Canada.
With Dr. Glenn Yaffee she created one of the first staff leadership programs for health professionals in Ontario. Most recently, she has been instrumental with colleagues in developing the award-winning Dorothy M. Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute which brings together Canadian nurse leaders for a week-long leadership learning experience. Recently the Canadian Nurses Association called the Nursing Leadership Institute a “National Treasure.”
In 2005 Bev and her colleagues developed the Health Leaders Institute to bring together all health professionals in a collaborative interprofessional leadership learning event
In 2007 Bev completed the requirements to achieve Master Facilitator Certification with The Leadership Challenge team.
