REGULATORY
APEGA’s Registrar Reflects on Two Years of Professional Growth and Organizational Change
Privileged to lead. Driven to deliver. For Carol Moen, P.Eng., those six words have been her guiding mantra since she joined APEGA staff as Registrar just less than two years ago. “I feel privileged to be Registrar, but I am also driven to ensure that the Regulatory portfolio I have responsibility for meets or ideally exceeds expectations,” she explains. Leading the Regulatory Group and learning in fine detail the nuances of self- regulation have been an amazing journey of discovery, says Ms. Moen, the second-in- command to the CEO. “It was surprising for me that, after a very satisfying, 25-plus-year engineering career in industry, I didn’t have a better appreciation for the broadness and complexity of APEGA’s regulatory scope,” she says. “My focus was to learn the portfolio and satisfy myself that APEGA is fulfilling our obligations.” Ms. Moen arrived at a critical time in the Association’s history, with APEGA in the midst of a major organizational restructuring. Her many years of industry experience helped her tackle many tough challenges head-on, including a huge increase in membership applications, processing time challenges across the regulatory portfolios, and a backlog of appeals of decisions by APEGA statutory boards and committees. “In business, you always have to do things better, faster, cheaper, safer, more environmentally sound. The bar is always moving up. You need to understand what’s expected of you and how you’re doing against that. If you don’t manage those expectations or needs well, you go out of business,” she says. “I brought that sort of perspective to the table — the desire to
DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES APEGA’s Regulatory Group has undergone an evolution over the past several years, with many new faces joining the seasoned voices already at the table. The changes have added diversity to the group’s leadership team. Registrar Carol Moen, P.Eng., front and centre above, believes it’s important for APEGA to strive for a strong representation the demographics of the professions we govern.
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