Randy Gilbert has more than 40 years of leadership experience. He has been an associate faculty member in the School of Leadership Studies since 2005, and in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2018.
Randy is a fellow of the Canadian College of Health Leaders, where his has served on national committees, and continues to serve as a fellow's advisor, an executive coach and an executive mentor. He is also a Canadian and internationally certified professional in Health Information and management Systems.
In addition to teaching at Royal Roads, Randy is the president and principal consultant with Sage Consulting & Academia Services Ltd. He has retired from executive healthcare positions in BC, where he worked as the regional director responsible for Lower Mainland Consolidated Medical Imaging Informatics.
Before this, Randy served as the corporate director of Lower Mainland Consolidated Health Information Management Services. Previously, Randy retired from the Canadian Armed Forces after serving for 38 years, including 26 years as a health care administrator and heath services operations officer.
Experience
During his military career, Randy was responsible for leading primary care services, developing and leading implementation of emergency medical response services and national emergency training, and implementation of cross-provincial communications systems.
He is an international speaker, having served as Canada’s representative to NATO for international standardization and integration of health informatics. Randy coordinated multinational healthcare operations and engaged in international/intercultural mentoring.
Randy was also the Canadian representative to Jamaica for Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development Canada, where he worked with the Jamaican Defence Force to develop a national health information system. While in Southern Afghanistan, Randy served as the NATO chief of medical operations and senior staff officer for Afghan National Security Force Health Development.
Additionally, Randy has 17 years of clinical experience as an advanced life support and flight paramedic, which enables him to understand both clinical and managerial/leadership perspectives.
Randy has worked with public, private, military and healthcare learners and leaders to explore leadership, organizational and generational paradigms, communities of practice, organizational culture, organizational change, and communications and information management challenges.
His personal research includes emergency health, training development, health system and health information system development and implementation, and organizational cultural paradigms. Randy’s knowledge and skills include qualitative, quantitative, mixed model, evidence-based approaches, narrative inquiry, phenomenology, focus groups, surveys, interviews and action research.
Over and above Randy’s passion for teaching, he and his wife are insatiable international travellers and Randy maintains his sanity through motorcycle riding and scuba diving.
Education
2013
PhD with honours in Applied Management and Decision Sciences, with a specialty in Leadership and Organizational Change
Walden University
2005
Certificate in Health Services Management
Ryerson University
2004
Master of Arts in Leadership and Training
Royal Roads University