Margot Smart

Biography

Based in Calgary, Margot advises non-profit organizations and foundations on how to achieve greater strategic clarity. She is the co-founder of Colbeck Strategic Advisors, a firm focused on supporting social sector leaders to make more informed strategic decisions to increase their social impact.

Margot brings more than a decade of experience working as a coach, advisor, facilitator, and strategist with non-profit organizations and foundations ranging from start-ups to large, established entities. She began her career with Oliver Wyman, a strategy and operations consulting firm, where she worked with large international organizations, including UNICEF, WHO and the Gates Foundation, in the field of global health. She went on to serve as Manager of the President’s Office for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, where she was responsible for strategic initiatives and evaluation at the national level. Since then, she has worked with and consulted to a variety of Canadian organizations on issues of strategy and performance measurement. Since 2012, Margot has been an Innoweave coach and has led over 20 organizations through its Impact and Strategic Clarity, Developmental Evaluation and Impact Measurement streams.

In addition to her professional background in non-profit management, Margot has extensive voluntary experience at home and abroad. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.