Sabine Matheson

Biografía: Sabine Matheson has been a principal at StrategyCorp since 1998…although until 2022, she was known as John Matheson. But, thanks to Ontario’s Ministry of Health, she was able to pursue the goal of aligning her body with her true feminine self, and now appears before us today as a Sabine, a proud transgender woman. She is the founder of StrategyCorp’s Municipal Affairs Practice Group, which has served well over 150 municipalities across Canada on a variety of strategic projects, relating to: ? Intergovernmental Affairs (Federal and Provincial) ? Strategic Planning and Staff-Council Relations ? Operational, Organizational and Ward Boundary Reviews ? Special Policy Projects and Issue Management A well-known commentator on the municipal world, she is strategic advisor to “Ontario’s Big City Mayors” on provincial relations. She has also been an advisor to AMO, AMCTO, and OMAA. Since 2016, she has been the lead author of StrategyCorp’s influential Annual CAO Survey, which gives voice to Ontario and Canadian Chief Administrators. Sabine served as Chief of Staff to Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. In that capacity, she was deeply involved in the creation of Ontario’s municipal taxation and assessment regime, key reforms to Ontario’s Municipal Act and Planning Act, as well as the amalgamation of the City of Toronto. Since 2007, Sabine has been an instructor in UOIT’s Municipal Management Program. She also teaches provincial-municipal relations through AMCTO. Sabine’s policy expertise is grounded in her legal background. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1993, serves as StrategyCorp’s in-house counsel, and previously practiced law in Toronto with a major Bay Street firm.