Profiles on
Parade:
Joyce Pielou
By Damien Barstead
Joyce Pielou has been employed as the Project Manager for the Haig-Brown
Kingfisher Creek Restoration Project since earlier this summer. Before this Joyce worked with
the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society. The capabilities of this Environmental Impact
Assessment Technician are far greater than anyone ever guessed upon her initial arrival to the
project.
Joyce Pielou
Joyce’s skills were put to the test right from the beginning. She entered into a
project that had already built up years of momentum and had to find a way to fit in. Upon
Joyce’s arrival, she immediately adapted to the hectic pace and tight time-line that the
Haig-Brown Kingfisher Creek Society was under. This forced her into a situation riddled with
pressures and confusion which she was forced to organize and diffuse.
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Her experience with other non-profit organizations and projects of varying size,
along with her already exceptional organizational skills, allowed her to accomplish this. She
united the project and the people involved at a critical time in order to get the project
underway.
Joyce’s experience with other non-profits groups also made her appreciate the
immense commitment of the volunteers involved with the project. As well, she comes complete
with Board development and facilitation experience, which has proven tremendously valuable in
her current position. All this aside, the one area where Joyce continually shines in is in dealing
with unforeseen obstacles. As is the nature of a restoration project such as this one, every day
several unexpected wild-card problems are left on her desk. Using a term she coined called
"organized panic," Joyce is able to successfully deal with every problem in a tactful, usually
blameless fashion.
As Kevin Brown, the education coordinator for the Society explained, "There are
very few people who could do a better job in that position." Everyone at the Haig-Brown
Kingfisher Creek Society is grateful to have the benefit of Joyce’s amazing administrative and
organizational skills in dealing with all the diverse groups and the onerous duties that this
project entails.
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