is the product of the combined experience and skills of the principals, Elizabeth and Kip Sharpe of Guelph, Ontario. After extensive business experience throughout North America by both partners of BPI, they returned to their hometown of Guelph and opened an enterprise focused on full service association management for the not-for-profit community.

They provide associations, societies and charities with office facilities and equipment, personnel and technical resources, management and leadership expertise and product improvement by analyzing systems and processes.

BPI Consulting provides a cost effective solution to the administration, operations management and leadership of all not-for-profit organizations.


 
Kip Sharpe presents with a combination of corporate, community and association development and operations experience. He combines his IT proficiency with his vast knowledge of organizational analysis, sales and operations.

Kip has a BSc in Computer Science from Western University, has an established track record in IT in various industries including municipal government, insurance, service, printing, technology and information systems. He has experience in various disciplines such as Quality Circles, MBO, TQC, TQM, Continuous Improvement, Hoshin, Strategic Planning, Balanced Scorecard and many other methodologies in his extensive career in business.

Kip’s accomplishments include responsibility for software development in Canada for a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. He conducted strategic planning for information technology for every sales office in a paper based and electronic solutions information management company. As the Director of Field Sales Administration, Kip lead a team of regional managers to drive up productivity of the composition, pricing, and order processing of this company. As Manager of Product Quality for a producer of products and services addressing communications requirements, Kip implemented ISO 9002 for this national company. While with an insurance based provider of multi-national financial solutions, Kip successfully completed major process work to fulfill his part of the $40 million reduction in costs associated with insurance operations.

As a Senior Business Analyst with Canada's largest provider of corporate and institutional print and print management solutions, Kip was chosen to provide process analysis and service improvement to some of the company’s largest accounts. As well he sought sales experience and served the company as a Senior Sales Consultant. His accomplishments were significant and his work was recognized by the receipt of achievement awards through several fiscal periods.

Kip also dedicates his time, talents and skills to the support of the not-for-profit community in consulting to foundations, associations and charities in the areas of process improvement, leadership, governance, revenue generation, trend awareness, communications and best practices. He draws on his lifelong learning and faith based studies to improve the quality of life in his community and in the corporations he serves.

 
Elizabeth is a Certified Association Executive (CAE). Elizabeth founded and successfully operated the largest and most professionally recognized association management company in Canada with offices in Ottawa and Calgary Alberta for 18 years. In order to ensure optimum succession planning, she sold her company to McPherson Management in 2003 and remained on for five years as CEO of McPhersonClarke with the opening of a third location in Toronto, Ontario.

Elizabeth and her husband offer full not-for-profit management services in their new company, BPI Consulting in Guelph ON. Their complimentary skillsets and vast experience provide support to non-profit associations, societies and charities across Canada in the areas of leadership development, board coaching and governance training, education, organizational reviews, non-dues revenue generation, fundraising guidance and member recruitment.

Elizabeth's background in health care, education/training, government, high tech, consulting and manufacturing has prepared her to manage projects, business ventures and a full time professional staff including many contract associates in three cities across Canada. She and her staff successfully co-coordinated the day to day operations of twenty-one non-profit associations in North America, provided advice and leadership to over 60 boards of directors, managed their conferences, education/certification programs, trade shows and promotions and implemented and designed budgets and financial systems. At the peak of her career, Elizabeth was responsible for the support of over 25,000 members and budgets in excess of $8 million dollars.

Elizabeth is now the Executive Director of the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy and is Interim Executive Director for the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. She has a strong history in program design and development, skills training, product promotion/ sponsorship development and certification program management. She stays in touch with international not-for-profit management issues as a member of the American and Canadian Societies of Association Executives and has successfully completed four of five modules of the Certified Association Executive Program.

Elizabeth was nominated for Ernst & Young's National Entrepreneur of the Year award, was awarded the city of Ottawa-Carleton Women of Distinction Award for Business, Professions and Trades, won the Ottawa-Carleton Consumers’ Choice Award, Business Woman of the Year 2000 and she was presented with the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for her work as Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs in 2002.