FIRST NATIONS MANAGEMENT CONSULTING will conduct activities that promote commerce or industry that improves Community economic opportunities and social conditions of an identified community, particularly for those who are most disadvantaged, and generally display high rates of one or more.
Cynthia’s experience includes:
- Over a million dollars in proposals to create jobs
- Initiated the installation of electric power, solar power, and new water system to First Nation reserves.
- Managed and designed the construction of the forestry and fisheries complex.
- Initiated the 5 year Economic Development plan and was completed in the fall of 2012.
- Liaison for First Nations Forest Company and large corporation to establish working relationship to purchase wood.
- Project Manager for Forestry, Fisheries and Health building
About Cynthia Rayner, MBA
Cynthia Rayner is the principal consultant at First Nations Management Consulting. She is a powerful business driver whose entrepreneurial instincts and clarity of vision have carried multiple companies through rapid and continuous growth. Cynthia obtained her university degree in Business with a focus on Management and Marketing. She returned to the workforce as a Director of Tribal Operations, Senior Administrator, Executive Health Director, and Education Manager. She decided to follow her passion and stepped down as a Senior Manager and took the position of Economic Development Officer (EDO). This has been an interesting journey into the world of First Nations Economic Development.
In 2019, Cynthia graduated from the MBA program at Athabasca University. She was asked to develop a 4th-year Indigenous economic development degree course for Athabasca University. When she completed developing the course, she applied for the Doctorate of Business Administration program at Athabasca University. She is going into her 4th year. Her focus is on First Nations' economic development in the context of Modern Treaty Governments and Non-Treaty Governments.