Biography
Brian Lee Crowley is Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. MLI is the only think tank in Ottawa dealing with the full spectrum of issues falling under the jurisdiction of the federal government and was recently (2013) ranked as one of the Top Three New Think Tanks in the World by the University of Pennsylvania. As a result of his work at MLI, Crowley is regularly ranked one of the 100 Most Influential People in Ottawa by The Hill Times. In addition he is a best-selling and international award-winning author, frequent commentator across all media, and a widely-read columnist in the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, the Calgary Herald and the Vancouver Sun, while his op-eds appear in newspaper and magazines in Canada, the US and internationally.
Crowley is also a gifted speaker, discussion moderator and communicator. Scores of industry associations, professional groups, boards of directors, government agencies and NGOs have had him as a featured speaker at conferences, meetings and retreats in recent years, always to rave reviews from the attendees. Former federal Finance Minister, the late Jim Flaherty, for whom Crowley chaired an annual summer retreat with senior economic influencers, called Crowley simply the best discussion moderator in the country. Countless event organisers have said that he held their audiences enthralled by making complex topics easily graspable and then weaving into those explanations new insights about how to resolve perennial problems and challenges.
Just a few of the major policy areas on which Crowley has inspired audiences include health care, Aboriginal affairs, Senate reform, national security, equalization, Canada-US relations, education performance and accountability, social programme reform, the coming revolution in agriculture and rural society, natural resources and public finances, the future of local government, and regional development policy.
Whether you are looking for a powerful speaker to energize your audience, a stimulating and thoughtful public intellectual to engage your board in a private discussion about global and national issues, or a tough but constructive moderator to lead your group through a challenging direction-setting discussion, Brian Crowley will get the job done and make you look good while doing it.
Speech Topics
Brian customizes the majority of his talks to suit your industry, association, or cause. Some of the topics he discusses are:
The Economy ( Canada, the USA, Global ).
Healthcare
Urban, rural, municipal affairs
Aboriginal affairs
Foreign Policy
Anything!
Why Health Care is Broken and How to Fix It.
Canadians love to think that this country has “the best health care system in the world”, even though that is quite obviously not the case by any objective measure. But it isn’t really a statement about facts, explains Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. It is a “statement about morals, beliefs and good intentions”, he says. In this hard hitting talk, Brian Lee Crowley pulls no punches in telling your audience what 3 drivers will reshape our health care system for the better in the 21st century.
