{"id":20344,"date":"2025-06-13T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/?p=20344"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:56:52","slug":"leadership-transition-in-the-csp-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/2025\/06\/leadership-transition-in-the-csp-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership transition in the CSP board of directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20230\" src=\"https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/11231531\/CSP-Email-Banner-June-2025-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/11231531\/CSP-Email-Banner-June-2025-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/11231531\/CSP-Email-Banner-June-2025-2-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cspnational.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/11231531\/CSP-Email-Banner-June-2025-2-560x187.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><i><b>By St\u00e9phane Niles, outgoing board chair (<\/b><\/i><a href=\"mailto:stephane.niles@skipatrol.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>stephane.niles@skipatrol.ca<\/b><\/i><\/a><i><b>) and Sam Morcos, incoming board chair (<\/b><\/i><a href=\"mailto:sam.morcos@skipatrol.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>sam.morcos@skipatrol.ca<\/b><\/i><\/a><i><b>)<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-vimeo su-u-responsive-media-yes\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1089403725?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=1&amp;dnt=0&amp;muted=0&amp;texttrack=\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a6192e;\"><b>A heartfelt farewell from St\u00e9phane Niles<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">After nearly three and a half years as chairperson of the board of directors, St\u00e9phane Niles is stepping down from his role, with deep gratitude for all CSP members, volunteers, and leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">St\u00e9phane continues as a board director until his term is completed at the 2025 annual general meeting of the members this coming September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">St\u00e9phane appreciates the dedication, professionalism, and passion of the CSP community, and emphasizes that the members are the heart and soul of the organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">He also lauds the collaborative efforts of the national management committee, numerous board committees, and his fellow board directors, whose commitment has ensured CSP\u2019s ongoing success and growth.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a6192e;\"><b>Director role changes<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">The board of directors are excited to announce that board director Sam Morcos will be the new board chair. Sam\u2019s leadership experience, energy, and commitment to CSP\u2019s mission will further enhance our current momentum towards organizational transformation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">As well, director Jenn Delaney will step into the role of vice-chair, while director Anick Vaillancourt remains board secretary and director Amy Scullion maintains the role of director-at-large.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">A huge thanks goes to outgoing board director Don Silverman who will be finishing up his final months of his six-year tenure on the board.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a6192e;\"><b>What\u2019s next?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">While many members are shifting to non-skiing events or hanging up their CSP coat until they start preparing for their AFA requalification in the fall, the board will continue to actively work with the co-executive directors and members of the national management committee through the coming months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">Please, mark your calendars for the CSP\u2019s annual meeting of the members scheduled for <b>September 14, 2025<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;\">Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/skipatrol.ca\/members\/agm-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGM 2025<\/a> page on the member website for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By St\u00e9phane Niles, outgoing board chair (stephane.niles@skipatrol.ca) and Sam Morcos, incoming board chair (sam.morcos@skipatrol.ca) A heartfelt farewell from St\u00e9phane Niles After nearly three and a half years as chairperson of the board of directors, St\u00e9phane Niles is stepping down from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3206,"featured_media":20198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[516,528,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-516","category-june-2025","category-public-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20356,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20344\/revisions\/20356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}