Bart Mindszenthy & Harvey Silver, Ph.D.

Bart Mindszenthy, APR, FCPRS, LM

Bart is a Partner in the Toronto-based Mindszenthy & Roberts Corporation specializing in strategic communications planning; issues management; major change, conflict, and crisis communications; and, growing from those specialties, organizational communications. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the largest PR firm in Canada; director of corporate public affairs and communications for the largest chemical company in Canada, and Executive Vice President of a full service public relations firm.

Bart has a dual undergraduate degree from Wayne State University in jou alism and philosophy, along with certificates and diplomas in public relations and advertising. He was among the first inductees in the Canadian Public Relations Society’s College of Fellows.

Harvey Silver, Ph.D.

Over the past two decades, Harvey has carved a deep and lasting swath across corporate North America. More than 700 organizations have retained him to help change their cultures… to help overhaul, retune and reshape how managers and supervisors think, act and lead. Thousands know him; most embrace him as someone special who relentlessly drives behavior change, and some always resent his passion and refusal to accept complacency. That’s why Canada’s national weekly newsmagazine selected Harvey as one of the best in ‘healing sick offices and making healthy ones healthier’.

Harvey is a psychologist, with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Toronto, and his Doctorate from the State University of New York. Prior to starting his own human resources consulting and management development practice in 1978, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Adult Education at the University of Toronto. He also held various senior positions in the Canadian federal government and consulting firms Along the way, Harvey taught executive management programs at several of Canada’s leading universities, including Queen’s, McMaster and McGill. He has written extensively and has often been interviewed by media.