Meg BECKEL

Margaret (Meg) Beckel is an accomplished leader in the education, post-secondary and arts & culture sectors. Her skills and experience include senior administration, fundraising, finance and operations, brand framing, strategic planning, board governance and change management as well as oversight of major construction projects. Meg has championed and led transformational challenges in the national organizations she has served and with her success, earned a reputation for being direct, transparent, committed, honest, tenacious and fair. She has also managed to maintain a sense of humour.

Meg recently retired from the role of CEO of Canada’s national museum of Natural History’s where she eliminated their deficit through new revenue generating programs, a new brand framework and institutional positioning, a new value-based pricing structure and a contribution/business case approach to public program planning and research/collections management. She grew earned revenue by 150% over seven years and grew the number of institutional touchpoints from 2 million to 4 million.
 

Meg has served on the Canadian Committee of IUCN, was a Board observer and was past Chair 2016. She currently serves as Co-Chair Nature Communications for the IUCN CEC and is a member of the IUCN Urban Alliance.  She has been a big supporter of #NatureForAll since inception. Meg has a in BA Political Science, Queen’s University, Canada and a Masters of Business Administration,  University of Western Ontario, Canada.