Fernande Faulkner has extensive senior level consulting experience in management, organizational change, social research and development, and evaluation. Initially trained as a sociologist she was president of TRI-SC, a firm analyzing social and cultural trends in Canada as well as providing consulting services in social development for the Canadian Secretary of State and the Canadian International Development Agency. After conducting a number of social impact analyses, she moved to designing and analyzing the introduction of computers in organizations and was at the time president and one of the founders of a professional association for office automation in Canada. In 1979 she co-founded Socioscope, a consulting firm dealing with the human aspects of technology and conducted many projects dealing with the implementation of technology focusing on the role that culture plays in organizational change.

Since 1992 she has worked on large scale organizational change and reform, and in this context has extensive experience in identifying and implementing the range of new competencies required within traditional organizations looking to revitalize themselves. This was usually accompanied with the design and implementation of appropriate management training. She has developed the competency profiles for UN Resident Coordinators and has worked on one of the projects of UN reform in the UN Secretariat. Most recently she has become actively involved with knowledge acquisition and learning in the UN and NGO humanitarian sector.

Trained as a therapist, over the years she has combined this with a variety of methodologies and tools such as group dynamics, teambuilding, action reflection learning, building communities of practice and others to use with clients. Her passion is to work with international organizations to improve their capacity to deal with increasingly complex situations.