About Lee Steeves

For those who don't know me, my husband Ken Curren and I own Regalridge Kennels.  We have been members of CKC for more than 20 years and have actively shown Airedales, Welsh and Norwich Terriers (oh, and Kathy Archibald's wonderful Sheltie on that one occasion!).  We have a reasonably large breeding and boarding facility and are thoroughly immersed in dogs.

From a professional perspective, I am 'retired' from Senior Management in the Federal Public Service.  After graduation from University, my career in public service began as a Customs Officer in Woodstock, NB.  From there, I moved into the field of Human Resource Management for Atlantic Canada with Transport Canada.  For ten years, I was a Labour Relations Manager, managed Recruitment, Human Resource Planning, Training and Employment Equity for an organization in excess of 2,000 staff.  During this period, I worked for one year in Newfoundland/Labrador from St John's to Goose Bay, Gander to Trepassey on departmental reorganizations.  Prior to leaving the Department, I authored the Fleet Vessel Manning Study, a large body of work analyzing the Canadian Coast Guard's personnel complement on ships, their roles, functions and requirements for ship's complements in the face of government downsizing. 

Leaving Transport, I was offered a more Senior position with Public Works Canada as their Regional Business Manager.  At that time, this area of government was challenged to function as a private business and my role was to develop and implement a process to effect that change.  The multi-year budget for my organization was $250,000,000 with an annual cashflow of approximately $125,000,000.  In addition to this role, I was challenged with several colleagues to manage the development of a National computer system for project planning and tracking.  

From Business Management, I moved to the Strategic Planning area of the Department after the amalgamation of Public Works and Government Services.  During this period, I chaired Boards tasked with the mandate to author several National Policies and Procedures including the Federal Government's Accessibility Policy - a document of which I am particularly proud.  In addition, I managed the strategic planning activities for land use planning, infrastructure acquisition and divestiture and Grants in Lieu of Taxes throughout Atlantic Canada. 

After 'retiring', Ken and I became active in community affairs, having moved to rural Nova Scotia (15 minutes from Halifax airport).  Ken is Chair of the County Health Board while I have chaired the County's Regional Economic Development Board, am on the Board of the CAP Committee and have developed and offered a Basic Computer Skills training program for Seniors in the community, training over 100 Seniors in computer use over the past two years. 

Currently, I am President of the Atlantic Terrier Association, the Welsh Terrier Association of Canada and a member of several other breed clubs Nationally and Internationally.  For the past several years, I have been the CKC's Chair of the Examining Committee for NS and NF.  I am a professional writer and on the Board of Pets Atlantic magazine as well as a part-time Communications Consultant in the areas of government and private sector policy and training. 

I offer this information as a snapshot of my experience that could be important to the functioning of the CKC Board.  With a solid background in actively breeding and showing dogs for over two decades and in writing about the dog fancy, in Human Resource Management, Business Management and Strategic Planning as well as considerable experience in the Chair of both public and private Boards, I believe my background is well suited to this Board at this time.

                                           Yours in dogs,