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Mark Anielski Partner, Genuine Wealth Inc. Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaManagement Consulting Current Genuine Wealth Inc., Anielski Management Inc. Previous University of Alberta, School of Business, Happiness Solutions Inc., Pembina Institute Education University of Alberta 500+ connectionsConnectSend InMailMore options ca.linkedin.com/pub/mark-anielski/25/813/8b5 Contact Info Background Summary I am an well-being economist and entrepreneur specializing in designing, building, measuring and operating communities and businesses of wellbeing and happiness. In 2007, I authored the best-selling, award-winning book The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth, which is a guidebook for achieving what we all want: a good life, meaningful work and enduring happiness. I developed the Genuine Wealth Model as a practical tool that helps businesses and communities develop flourishing economies of well-being and happiness. I have advised governments, business and individuals in Canada, the US, Austria, China, The Netherlands, Bhutan, and more recently Tahiti in developing communities and economies of well-being. For the past 10 years I founded and taught corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship at the University of Alberta, School of Business. In May 2012, I joined Robert McGarvey, Dominic Mishio and Bill Craig to form a cooperative business enterprise we call 'Genuine Wealth' with a mission to design and build communities and enterprises of well-being and happiness, based on the Genuine Wealth Model. Experience Co-founder and Partner Genuine Wealth Inc. May 2012 – Present (1 year)Edmonton Our mission at Genuine Wealth is to design, build and help operate the new economy of well-being based on the Genuine Wealth Model. We help assess and optimize their wealth, health and happiness. We believe that wealth is being redefined back to it's original 13th Century Old English meaning: 'the conditions of well-being.' We believe 'well-being' will ultimately transcend profit and GDP (gross domestic product) as the ultimate measure of progress and what we call the 'well-being return on investment' of of the five capital assets of your organization or community. We help individuals, households, businesses, communities and nations discover their Genuine Wealth by measuring what matters to a more meaningful and flourishing life. Genuine Wealth Inc. was formed as a unique cooperative business enterprise with my colleagues Dominic Mishio, Robert McGarvey and Bill Craig. We believe we are the first model of a Genuine (G) Corporation where our success is measured in terms of maximizing well-being and happiness for our own lives, our families and neighbourhoods. (Open)1 project President & CEO Anielski Management Inc. 1995 – Present (18 years)Edmonton Anielski Management Inc., is a family-owned corporation which operates on the principles of sustainability and building genuine wealth for communities. Our mission is to provide communities, businesses, governments and other organizations with practical tools and processes for assessing, building and sustaining their genuine wealth – the human, social, natural, built and financial capital assets that contribute to well-being, sustainability and ultimately happiness. Providing strategic counsel and analysis to government, the private sector, and not-for-profit organizations on issues related to: 1) business planning, sustainability accounting, and performance measurement; 2) environmental and natural resource economics and accounting; 3) quality of life measurement and societal well-being accounting; and 4) process and group facilitation. Adjunct Professor, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship University of Alberta, School of Business January 2003 – December 2012 (10 years)Edmonton Founding instructor of the University of Alberta's first course in corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship (2003) for MBA and fourth year business students at the University of Alberta’s School of Business. Chief Happiness Officer Happiness Solutions Inc. October 2011 – April 2012 (7 months)Edmonton Happiness Solutions Inc. was formed as a consortium of 10 equally spirited individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds and gifts with passion and heart. Our mission is to 'radically improve the conditions of well-being throughout the world.' Happiness Solutions Inc. works with individuals, households, communities, cities/towns, organizations, regions, countries to give them the most efficient path to genuine happiness with practical solutions to enhancing their well-being. Happiness Solutions Inc. exists to co-create genuine public benefit and improve societal well-being. Director Green Economics and Sustainability Measurement Pembina Institute 2000 – 2003 (3 years)Edmonton Mark served as Pembina’s director and senior advisor on sustainability measurement & indicators, and green economics. Between April 2000 and April 2001, he led a team of researchers at the Pembina Institute in developing the Alberta Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI) Sustainable Well-being Accounting System, a prototype sustainability assessment system that was applied to the province of Alberta, using 51 indicators to measure the sustainable progress of the province of Alberta from 1960 to 2000. Founding Executive Director, Centre for Performance Measurement & Management (CPMM) University of Alberta, School of Business January 1999 – November 2000 (1 year 11 months)Edmonton Founder and executive director of the CPMM and an Adjunct Professor (Department Strategic Management and Organization) teaching business and the environment. CPMM is an applied performance measurement research centre at the University of Alberta with a vision of developing new accounting methods and systems that seek to integrate economic-social-ecological forms of capital for enhanced and resilient organizational and societal performance and well-being. This includes the research, development and facilitation of performance indicators, new total wealth accounting systems, full-cost or full-value accounting, and strategic-business planning. The major accomplishment was the development of a comprehensive performance measurement framework for the Alberta Capital Region (under the leadership of Lou Hyndman) that would be the basis of measuring and monitoring the quality of life and service efficiencies. Senior Policy Analyst Alberta Treasury, Government of Alberta 1995 – 1999 (4 years)Edmonton Senior Advisor (Alberta Treasury) on government performance measurement, business planning, and the Alberta Government’s accountability framework. Senior Policy Analyst and Economist Alberta Environment, Government of Alberta January 1984 – September 1995 (11 years 9 months)Edmonton Manager and Senior Policy Analyst responsible for designing and leading the Ministry of Environment's strategic-business planning process and development of the performance measurement system. As well as economic and environmental policy analysis. Provided policy advise and analysis to the Minister on the impact of environmental policies, timber royalty policy, trade policy, and the valuation of natural resources. Ministry Spokesperson for the Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement and GATT negotiations. Founder and Chairperson of the Resource Accounting Working Group, a group of Government and University of Alberta economists with a professional interest in adopting natural resource accounting for Alberta as a means of measuring sustainable development. Developed Canada's first pilot natural resource accounts for Alberta. Publications The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth(Link) Gabriola Island, British Columbia May 10, 2007 We all know that money can’t buy you love…or happiness. But we have been living our lives as though the accumulation of wealth is the key to our dreams. North Americans have never been wealthier, but over the past 50 years our increasing prosperity has hardly made a dent on our happiness while many conditions of well-being are in decline. So why do our measures of economic progress not reflect the...more Projects The Economics of Happiness(Link) May 2007 – Present Helping to design and build the conditions for enhanced well-being and happiness for individuals, businesses, communities and nations, throughout the world. 4 team members Mark Anielski Partner, Genuine Wealth Inc. Robert McGarvey Dominic Mishio Bill Craig Languages German Skills & Expertise Most endorsed for... 19Sustainability 19Strategy 15Policy 10Research 9Sustainable Development 9Workshop Facilitation 8Leadership 4Analysis 4Government 3Corporate Social... Mark also knows about... 2Non-profits 2Environmental Awareness 2Business Planning 2Environmental Policy 2Project Planning Education University of Alberta MSc. Forest Economics, Resource economics 1989 – 1991 University of Alberta Bachelors of Forest Science 1982 – 1984 University of Alberta Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics 1978 – 1981 Louis St. Laurent 1976 – 1978 Recommendations Given (1) James Van Leeuwen Principal - Strategic Economic & Community Development My organization, the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, contracted James in 2003 to organize our biannual conference held at Jasper Park Lodge in the fall of 2003. James did a superb job in coordinating all aspects of the conference. James has wonderful organizational skills, is a man of integrity and was effective at choreographing all aspects of a conference ...more January 2, 2011, Mark was James's client See More ConnectionsShared (2) Benoit Couture1st Stay-at-home-dad-citizen-voter-taxpayer Elisabet Sahtouris1st member at Evolutionary Leaders PREVIOUSNEXT Groups Business Models Inc. 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