Ned is a retired ILAC and APLAC evaluation team leader whose current role is to facilitate cultural change so that labs, inspection bodies and product certification bodies meet international requirements for recognition. Ned is the Principal of MOTIVA Training Inc, a company whose primary service is to manage and deliver the International Accreditation Service Training program.

Ned won the Engineering Prize when he graduated Suma Cum Laude as a Civil Engineer from the Royal Military College of Canada. He spent 22 years in the service of his nation and retired as a Major in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. His service included command of operational Signal Corps units.

After that first retirement, Ned became the quality manager for an acoustics and electronic testing and calibration laboratory. He created a quality system and underwent his first assessment 62 days after he became the quality manger. Today he works hard to help those who may also have to endure such a challenge. His company provides free webinars and quality system document samples so that others may have better tools to work through the creation and implementation of a quality management system.

Since that time, Ned has worked in five accreditation bodies in Canada and the USA and spent 10 years as the quality manager for one of the Canadian accreditation body that focussed on the accreditation of both public sector and private sector environmental labs. He helped create the ILAC signatory AB in Bangladesh and he worked in both Laos and Myanmar to help them do the same.

Within the Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation, Ned was a Lead Evaluator and was the Convenor of the Evaluator Training Working Group (ETWG) - to train APAC evaluators. He was also the Convenor of the Evaluator Performance Working Group (EPWG) - to document the monitoring of APAC evaluators. Finally, Ned also served as the chair of the Calibration Sub Committee of the APAC Technical Committee - responsible for all calibration laboratory policies within APLAC.

Ned is a trainer who believes that people are the solution to challenges in any organisation. His greatest joy is motivating dispirited teams of people to achieve difficult objectives under impossible circumstances - starting with believing in themselves. His own company’s motto is “Reaching People.”

From 1997 to 2005, Ned was Canada’s ISO/CASCO committee member for the creation and amendment of the laboratory accreditation standard, ISO/IEC 17025. He has created the QMS for two dozen laboratories, four product certification bodies, and four ILAC signatory accreditation bodies. He is also the author of Ned's Rules of Engagement, a treatise on leadership and the author of the Principles behind ISO/IEC 17025. 

Ned is a pilot, a sailor, a historian and a world traveller. In 1978 he married his best friend and their two sons are now married with families of their own.