Angela’s ancestry includes Haida, Squamish, and Stó:lō. She carries the name SGaan Jaad Kwahst’aang, Finning Killer Whale Woman. As principal of In a Good Way Consulting, Angela focuses on change management, strategic development, facilitation, and truth and reconciliation. She uses strength-based values from her cultural, academic, career, and life experiences to create future reconciliatory legacies with non-government, government, corporate, and Indigenous clients.

In her work, Angela focuses on responsibility, governance, being real, and reciprocity, and the elements of a potlatch put into modern context as she helps people groups discover, define, develop, and deliver their shared change goals. As she walks and connects two worlds, Angela’s work includes using professional, measurable metrics.

Angela holds a Master of Arts in Leadership and a Bachelor of Arts in General Studies degrees, and a Graduate Certificate in Change Management. She retired from Royal Canadian Mounted Police with 25 years of service and is a sessional instructor at the Justice Institute of British Columbia in sociology and laws. Part of Angela’s passion work includes serving as a board of director with the Stó:lō Service Agency and the Canadian Center to End Human Trafficking.