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Assessment Tools

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Personal Projects Analysis (PPA)

We are making the following tools available for research and testing purposes only:

Please email any comments, suggestions, bug reports or feature requests to hilarylittle@gmail.com. This software is provided ‘as is’, and the authors make no representations or warranties, express or implied.

Book: Personal Project Pursuit

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Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little’s highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology. The book examines both the internal and external dynamics of personal goals and projects and clearly demonstrates that human flourishing is enhanced when individuals are engaged in the pursuit of personal projects.

Client List

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The following is a partial listing only.

Corporate Clients:

  • AIM Trimark
  • Alcatel
  • Aventis Pharma
  • Bank of Montreal
  • BC Central Credit Union
  • BC Tel
  • Bell Canada
  • Bell Nexxis
  • Bell Northern Research (Nortel)
  • Boston Pizza
  • Cartier Partners
  • CIBC
  • CIBC Imperial Services
  • ClassSoftware Solutions
  • Cognos
  • Dupont
  • Dundee Securities Corporation
  • Fast Company
  • Filenet Corporation
  • Financial Concept Group
  • Fleet Mortgage Corporate
  • IBM
  • Litton Systems
  • MacKenzie Financial
  • Manulife Insurance
  • Midland Walwyn Financial
  • Morneau Sobeco Coopers & Lybrand
  • Mutual Group
  • Phillips, Hager, North
  • Price Waterhouse Coopers
  • ProBusiness
  • Prudential Real Estate
  • RBC Financial Group
  • ReMax (Ontario and New England)
  • Rogers Media
  • Royal Lepage Real Estate
  • SAP
  • ScotiaBank
  • Scotia Capital Finance
  • Scotia McLeod
  • Solutions Network Inc.
  • St. Lawrence Cement
  • Sun Life of Canada
  • TD Canada Trust
  • Teleglobe Canada
  • Telemedia
  • Torys LLP
  • Union Central Insurance
  • UPS Logistics
  • Western Management Consultants

Professional Associations:

  • Aerospace Executives Association
  • Canadian Association of Financial Planners
  • Canadian Society for Association Executives
  • Canadian Institute of Actuaries
  • Canadian Parks and Recreation Association
  • Canadian Real Estate Association
  • Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council
  • Citizenship Court Judge’s Conference
  • Credit Union Executive Society
  • Financial Management Institute of Canada
  • Institute of Canadian Bankers
  • International Association of Business Communicators
  • Municipal Treasurers’ Association of the United States and Canada
  • Ontario Association of Provincial Court Judges
  • Ontario Principals’ Council
  • Ontario Veterinary Medical Association
  • Purchasing Management Association of Canada
  • Service and Support Professionals Association
  • Society of Incentive Travel Executives
  • Society of Management Accountants of Ontario
  • Wisconsin State Human Resource Professional Association
Government:
  • Canada Post Corporation
  • Canadian Centre for Management Development
  • Correctional Services Canada
  • Department of Finance
  • Department of National Defence, Management Development School
  • Human Resource Development Canada
  • (National Secretariat on Homelessness; Strategic Policy)
  • Industry Canada
  • Natural Resources Canada
  • Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs
  • Privy Council Office
  • Public Works and Government Services Canada
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • Solicitor General of Canada
  • Treasury Board Secretariat
  • United States Army Alcohol and Addiction Research Program, Panama

Health Care and Education:

  • Alcohol and Drug Recovery Association of Ontario
  • Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).
  • Plenary Address to Canadian University Presidents and
  • Vice-Presidents Academic
  • Plenary Address to New Presidents of Canadian Universities (July, 2007)
  • BCHS (British Columbia Health Services)
  • British Columbia Health Care Leaders Association
  • Brockville Psychiatric Hospital
  • Canadian Association of Pediatric Hospitals
  • Canadian College of Cardiology
  • Canadian College of Health Care Service Executives
  • Canadian Hospital Association
  • Canadian Mental Health Association
  • Credit Valley Hospital
  • Canadian Association for Quality Assurance in Health Care
  • Canadian Association of Independent Schools
  • Canadian Association of Infection Control Nurses; Recovery Room Nurses;
  • Occupational Health; Operating Room Nurses; Nephrology Nurses; Urology
  • Canadian Medical Association
  • Nurses Association of Canada
  • Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
  • Lower Canada College
  • Maryland Student Assistance Program
  • Metro-McNair Clinical Laboratories
  • New Brunswick Health Care Association
  • Ontario Association of Pharmacists
  • Ontario Hospital Association
  • Qatar Foundation
  • Student Assistance Programs (USA)
  • Toronto School Administrators Association
  • Upper Canada College
  • Vancouver General Hospital, School of Medical Technology
  • West Vancouver School District
  • York House School (Vancouver)

The Singing Professor | Vancouver Sun

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By Lindsay Kines

Vancouver Sun
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VICTORIA
A musical lad from humble origins in Victoria becomes one of Harvard’s best-loved teachers. And though puberty stole the voice, nothing has stopped the singer.
It’s a sunny Friday morning at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel and the man voted a favourite professor by this year’s graduating class at Harvard University seems happy to be home. Brian Little, 62, will be wearing a sweltering, blue and gold doctoral gown later in the day for his class reunion at the university of Victoria. But right now the former Empress Hotel page boy looks cool and relaxed in shorts and a golf shirt, a patio umbrella overhead, the ocean stretching out behind him.“This is home,” he says. “It really is home.”He grew up just steps from here in the house his father built with his own hands—“everything except the electrical work”—the house where his family gathered around the piano each night, singing and laughing.It was there, perhaps, that the young performer first emerged. Brian Little, boy soprano, began singing on stage at age two and, even though puberty eventually stole his voice and left him with an “utterly mediocre baritone,” he’s still wowing university crowds all these years later.His children have a theory about his teaching, he says. “They say it’s my way of singing.”

There is more to it than that, of course. There’s an immigrant father’s belief in the power of education; a young man’s delight at scientific discovery; and the dedication of a born introvert, who, every day, goes against his nature to connect with his students. Continue reading →