Brian Payer

President, Brian Payer & Associates Inc.

Brian Payer is Anishinaabe(Ojibway) and operates Brian Payer and Associates, a consulting company that focuses on business development, market enhancement and strategic economic development primarily with Aboriginal individuals, corporations and organizations. Brian has worked extensively with First Nations and Aboriginal entrepreneurs to assist with the establishment and effective implementation of these businesses.

Brian has had extensive experience both in the private and public sector in addition to owning and operating a mid sized manufacturing business enterprise for 11 years.

Brian has held a number of significant positions relating to Aboriginal Economic Development including: advisory member of the Western Aboriginal Board overseeing the Canadian Aboriginal Economic Development Strategy; selection committee member in Toronto for the first Aboriginal Achievement Awards in 1994 as well as served at the community level on a number of Aboriginal Boards relating to education, economic development and advanced business learning. He currently holds the position of Senior Director and is one of the Aboriginal Advisors for the UBC Sauder School of Business Chinook Program.

Dr. Manley Begay

Professor Indigenous Studies & Politics & International Affairs

Manley Begay is the co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED), John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. In addition, he is a faculty member at Northern Arizona University where he teaches courses on nation-building, curriculum development, and Indigenous education. Begay was also selected as faculty member of the Institute for Planet Earth, at The University of Arizona.

Previously, he worked as a consultant for federal agencies, curriculum development specialist and researcher for a tribal college, and reviewer for several major textbook publishing and film companies. Furthermore, his research and consulting experience has focused on projects about and for Native nations in the promotion of strong and effective institutions of governance and leadership. He has presented on a variety of topics from leadership to Indigenous nation building and from curriculum development to pedagogy and from historical and contemporary Native American issues to education at numerous colleges and universities,

Begay received his AA from Navajo Community College; BA in Education from The University of Arizona; MA in Education from Brigham Young University; MA in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; and EdD at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

A citizen of the Navajo Nation, Professor Begay’s specializes in Indigenous Nation-Building, Education, and Dine’ History and Philosophy.

Brian Payer

President, Brian Payer & Associates Inc.

Brian Payer is Anishinaabe(Ojibway) and operates Brian Payer and Associates, a consulting company that focuses on business development, market enhancement and strategic economic development primarily with Aboriginal individuals, corporations and organizations. Brian has worked extensively with First Nations and Aboriginal entrepreneurs to assist with the establishment and effective implementation of these businesses.

Brian has had extensive experience both in the private and public sector in addition to owning and operating a mid sized manufacturing business enterprise for 11 years.

Brian has held a number of significant positions relating to Aboriginal Economic Development including: advisory member of the Western Aboriginal Board overseeing the Canadian Aboriginal Economic Development Strategy; selection committee member in Toronto for the first Aboriginal Achievement Awards in 1994 as well as served at the community level on a number of Aboriginal Boards relating to education, economic development and advanced business learning. He currently holds the position of Senior Director and is one of the Aboriginal Advisors for the UBC Sauder School of Business Chinook Program.

Dr. Manley Begay

Professor Indigenous Studies & Politics & International Affairs

Manley Begay is the co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED), John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. In addition, he is a faculty member at Northern Arizona University where he teaches courses on nation-building, curriculum development, and Indigenous education. Begay was also selected as faculty member of the Institute for Planet Earth, at The University of Arizona.

Previously, he worked as a consultant for federal agencies, curriculum development specialist and researcher for a tribal college, and reviewer for several major textbook publishing and film companies. Furthermore, his research and consulting experience has focused on projects about and for Native nations in the promotion of strong and effective institutions of governance and leadership. He has presented on a variety of topics from leadership to Indigenous nation building and from curriculum development to pedagogy and from historical and contemporary Native American issues to education at numerous colleges and universities,

Begay received his AA from Navajo Community College; BA in Education from The University of Arizona; MA in Education from Brigham Young University; MA in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; and EdD at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

A citizen of the Navajo Nation, Professor Begay’s specializes in Indigenous Nation-Building, Education, and Dine’ History and Philosophy.