Ken Goldstein: Archived Associate Faculty Listing

This page is an archival record. It preserves an associate faculty listing that appeared on the Banff Executive Leadership Inc. website in the mid-2000s. It does not describe a current engagement, a current affiliation or current availability, and it should not be read as any of those things. The practice itself no longer trades. Everything below is drawn from what the archived listing published at the time, and nothing has been added to it.

The listing as published

The listing described Ken Goldstein as president of a communications management consulting firm that he founded in 1975, and as one of Canada's leading authorities on media economics, on media trends, and on the impact of new technology on the media.

The consulting work recorded in the listing covered print and broadcast media clients in all parts of Canada, and in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, together with governments, industry associations and corporations in other fields.

On education, the listing recorded a Diploma in Journalism from a Toronto polytechnic institute and a Master of Science in Journalism from a graduate school of journalism in the United States.

On public service, it recorded that from 1972 to 1975 he served as an associate deputy minister of communications for a Canadian province, as the senior provincial civil servant responsible for telecommunications, broadcasting and cable policy and for public sector advertising and communications. It further recorded that he later co-chaired a provincial information highway advisory council established to advise on issues related to the internet.

Finally, the listing recorded that he had appeared on numerous occasions before Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications regulators, before the federal copyright regulator, and before committees of the Canadian Parliament.

What has been removed

The original listing carried a street address, a telephone number and an email address. None of it is reproduced here, and none of it would be current in any case. The names of the institutions where he studied, of the firm he founded, of the province he served, of the boards he sat on, and of the research report and the industry association mentioned in the archive have all been left out deliberately. Those are third parties, and this archive makes no claims on their behalf. No awards, later career, subsequent roles or current status appear on this page, because none of that was in the archived text and this restoration adds nothing to it.

Why a governance archive keeps a faculty listing at all

Roughly sixty of these listings once existed on this site, one per associate, and this is the only one preserved. That is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight, and it is worth explaining.

The associate network was not a detail of how the practice presented itself. It was how the practice actually worked. Banff Executive Leadership Inc. was a small core with a large bench: senior practitioners, former executives, specialists and academics who were engaged individually as a particular board, sector or subject required. That model is why a practice of its size could take a mandate on media economics one month and on pension fund governance the next, and it is why its faculty lists read as they do, with different names attached to different programmes. A structure of that kind leaves very little trace once the practice stops. There is no organization chart to recover and no staff list to restore, because the network only existed at the moment of an engagement.

One listing, kept as a record, shows the shape of it: the level of practitioner the model depended on, and the specificity of the expertise it was assembled to reach. The wider account of how the practice was staffed is on the our team page.