Miki Stricker-Talbot

Strategic Designer & Systems Change Leader

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Meet Miki Stricker-Talbot, an adaptive leader and strategic designer reimagining how organizations work for social good and justice.

Current Titles: Executive Director of Volunteer Alberta; Network Steward of the Alberta Nonprofit Network

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Miki Stricker-Talbot approaches life with an innate curiosity and an unabashed optimism. Based on Treaty 6 lands in Edmonton, she leads Volunteer Alberta, bringing a systems lens to strengthening the nonprofit and voluntary sector—leading with care, creativity, and a belief that how people feel about their work is as important as the work itself.

Miki’s path has wound through public service, social innovation, and the arts. At the City of Edmonton she helped steward Recover Urban Wellbeing and served as the City’s Hospitality Destinations Planner with Responsible Hospitality Edmonton, leading projects that turned Edmonton’s nighttime economy into a space of creativity, vibrancy, and safety. She is also co-founder of U.N.I.C.O.R.N.S. (the United Network of Innovative Change-agents Organizing to Realize New Strategies)—a peer network that supports changemakers working within government systems—and former co-convener of the Systemic Design Xchange (SDX), a community of practice exploring design for complex social challenges.

A group of people sit around a big white table. At one o'clock, Miki is talking while gesticulating and the others are leaning in, eyes on her.

“The act of convening can feel radical. Do it anyway. The universe will catch you.” –Miki Stricker-Talbot

Miki’s strengths
  • Strategic design, systems thinking, and unlearning facilitation
  • Convening communities of practice to support change-makers
  • Leading complex projects in public service and nonprofits
  • Fostering cultures of care, curiosity, and co-creation
  • Translating creative insight into practical system shifts
Miki’s background
  • Championed intrapreneurship at City of Edmonton and as a Co-founder of U.N.I.C.O.R.N.S.
  • Unlearning Facilitator, School for Social Entrepreneurs Canada
  • Global Fellow, League of Intrapreneurs; BMW Foundation Responsible Leader
  • Avenue Magazine Top 40 Under 40 alumna; Alberta Centennial Medal recipient
  • Director of the Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, and Founder and Co-producer of the Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival

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