LiveWorkPlay

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My career history is dominated by my ongoing role as co-leader of LiveWorkPlay, a federally incorporated non-profit organization and registered Canadian charity that helps the Ottawa community welcome people with intellectual disabilities to live, work, and play as valued citizens. That journey began back in 1995, at a time when I was concurrently working in the IT sector as Project Manager for SchoolNet, a national education network. My future wife Julie Kingstone and I left our existing careers and devoted ourselves full-time to LiveWorkPlay in 1997. In recent years I've focused on helping LiveWorkPlay make a critical transition from social services to social change: supporting people...

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