Consulting
Middle Ground Consulting is dedicated to helping mining companies be socially responsible. Social responsibility begins at exploration and lives through mine closure and beyond. Throughout these phases, mining companies and communities can collaborate so that positive and mutually beneficial outcomes are achieved.
Middle Ground assists this process by creating scalable and effective approaches to social responsibility that combine the needs of communities with the requirements of mining companies.
The aim is to achieve and maintain a conflict-free environment for companies and communities to foster sustainable livelihoods, well being and environmental balance without dependency.
About
Liane is a Sustainability Specialist who passionately believes that mining activities can make a positive social impact on the communities where resource development occurs.
She has a BSc in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University, a post graduate Certificate in International Development from UBC, various courses in Sustainability and Mining and is a trained Project Manager.
Liane has several years’ experience working in international development and many years servicing the mineral industry.
Contact at LianeCKelly@gmail.com
- As a Board member and Sustainability Committee Chair, provides governance oversight for mining companies, with specific emphasis on sustainability issues and risk management.
- As a Board member and Corporate Governance and Nomination Committee Chair, provided governance oversight for mining company with multi-jurisdictional frameworks.
- As a consultant, worked on numerous international projects and sites including resettlement planning, artisanal and small-scale mining co-existence strategies, social impact assessments, stakeholder engagement approaches, community led development planning and sustainability reporting development, execution and leadership.
- Established and ran a grass‐roots NGO focused on rural youth education and micro-empresa support to rural women in Nicaragua.
- Executed community development projects for Plan International (Foster Parents Plan) in Nicaragua.
- Project development, negotiation and execution on World Bank project for SEGEMAR (ServicioGeológico Minero Argentino) in Argentina.
- Developed grass roots environmental education program for UNDP in Honduras.
- Managed a 4-year development project to encourage investment in natural resources and capacity building within Latin American government organizations; project financed by more than 20 international mining and energy corporations covering over 20 countries.
- Team member of a 5-year development project to encourage investment in natural resources and capacity building within African government organizations; project financed by more than 13 international mining and energy corporations covering almost 50 countries.
- Experienced in strategic planning and creating key metric and performance monitoring systems.
- Lived in Colombia, Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Australia and Canada.
- Worked in Nicaragua, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Australia, Japan, China, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Tanzania, Namibia, Mali, Burkina Faso and Greenland.