Shawn holds a MSc from The Management Centre, the School of Public Policy and Social Science, King’s College London, and is in the final stages of submitting his doctoral dissertation to the School of Public Policy and Administration, Ottawa, Carleton University. He is Managing Partner of Workforce Edge, a niche international consultancy working at the exclusive intersection of healthcare and workforce deployment. He has founded an international Practitioner’s Panel on Health Workforce Mobilization with the ICPA-Forum on whose board he serves. He is founder and co-Chair of a CCHL and HealthCareCAN collaborative, raising the visibility of staff scheduling, deployment and “in-system” workforce planning towards health services sustainability. He is a board member of the Canadian Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executive as Canada has much to be proud of in the domain; serving as an example for our counterparts in the US and abroad.