Lisa is the Principal of Momentum Communications, a PR consulting firm she started in 2005, following stints in agency and non-profit work. She has been accredited since 2002 and has been an active CPRS member since she joined, serving on the board for numerous terms in professional development, secretary and membership roles. Lisa’s hope is that through CPRS, members engage with their colleagues to continue to support each other and build the profession. 

Lisa’s career in public relations began in conference planning and has progressively expanded over to encompass project management, strategy development, writing, media relations and strategic events management. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan, a Certificate of Public Relations from Mount Royal College.

Highlights of her career include logistics planning for Will and Kate’s Royal Visit to the University of Calgary, project management for the University of Calgary’s 50th Anniversary, and media relations that saw the Prevnar vaccine added to the Alberta formulary. A specialized generalist, Lisa has the pleasure of working with a wide variety of clients to help them build and protect their reputations, to share their stories and celebrate their successes. 

Lisa is the mother of two teenaged sons and one giant Bernadoodle.

Peter officially took up the Past President role after serving his two year term as the CPRS Calgary President from May 2023 to 2025. He has been a CPRS Calgary Board Member since 2020, shortly after he achieved his APR in 2019. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Relations at Mount Royal University (MRU), starting there in 2016. He also consults professionally in issues management and crisis communication, while serving on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Crisis and Risk Communication (CCRC).

Peter completed both his BA and MA at the University of Alberta, before moving to Toronto to accept a Rogers PhD Fellowship in the joint Toronto Metropolitan (TMU, formerly Ryerson) and York Universities’ Communication and Culture Programme in 2004. While completing his PhD, he taught for the Department of Politics and Public Administration at TMU for five years until 2010. He then moved to MacEwan University in Edmonton to work as an instructional designer in their eLearning Office, while also teaching for their Department of Communication.

His research interests include Canadian political communication, government public relations, digital research methods, and social media issues management. His co-authored research with Patrice Dutil earned the J.E. Hodgetts’ award from the Institute of Public Administration (IPAC) for article of the year in 2013, and an innovative collaborative online project with CBC News’ Susan Ormiston Online and Greg Elmer’s Infoscape Research Lab earned the “Best Cross Platform Project” Gemini Award for their coverage of the 2008 Canadian federal election (note: the Gemini Awards are now known as the “Canada Screen Awards”, since 2013). In Fall 2025, Peter will be teaching Government Public Relations and Issues Management, Risk and Crisis Communication at MRU. He is a frequent media commentator on those topics. You can follow Peter on X (formerly Twitter) @prnetworks.