Sara Filbee has had a career spanning over forty years in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors including as a corporate commercial law partner, a regional head of a career counselling / downsizing practice, President of Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, and Director Commercial Banking with a Canadian National Bank. The last 20 years of her career was with the Canadian Federal Government working in three departments – the last two as Assistant Deputy Minister. It was however her extensive volunteer work in the not-for-profit sector, particularly as Chair of the Board of United Way / Centraide Canada which first ignited her curiosity (and often frustration) with how one gets things done in a complex world which ultimately led to the professional doctoral program at the University of Hertfordshire in England in managing in complexity.
Sara is currently adjunct with the School of Public and International Affairs in the Faculty of Management of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Dr. Filbee has degrees from Acadia University (B.Sc. Biology), Dalhousie University (MBA – LLB) and the University of Hertfordshire (Doctor of Management in Complexity). Sara is active in the not-for-profit sector and has a number of interests including sailing, golfing, kayaking, skiing, karate, music and reading.
Sara’s latest book; Managing in Complexity: How Our Fears of Uncertainty Can Help Us and What To Do About It is the result of her experiences over her varied career and is based upon the leading edge research from the Complexity and Management Sector at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She found that this work was tremendously helpful in understanding many of the challenges she had experienced during her career and decided to write a book for practitioners – people in the workplace who are managers and leaders and who wonder why it is so difficult to get things done, because no-one had written that book before.
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