Shauna Sylvester is a Senior Fellow of the Definity Foundation, and the Founder and Lead Convenor for Urban Climate Leadership, a project of MakeWay. Shauna brings deep global and local experience in leading groups through complex problem solving. She has a passion for supporting local governments in creating healthy, safe and resilient communities and is currently working across public, private and non-profit sectors to help transition to heat pumps in low-rise multi-unit buildings in BC. She is the former Chair of Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement and currently serves on the board of Salish Sea House and Resilient Point Roberts: Going Solar a community-led initiative to bring solar to this small US exclave community. Shauna has over 35 years in executive leadership positions and has served as the Executive Director of the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, the Urban Sustainability Directors Network – US and Canada, and she has Co-Founded and led six local and international dialogue initiatives: the SFU Public Square, Renewable Cities, Carbon Talks, Moving in a Livable Region, Canada’s World and IMPACS – the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society.