Michael Morrison is the Executive Director of General Support Services with Island Health in British Columbia. As a member of the expanded executive leadership team, he oversees support services at residential care and acute care sites across Vancouver Island. Prior to accepting this role, Michael spent more than 16 years working as a civilian for the Canadian Navy and the Department of National Defence in Victoria. For the last five years of his employment in the federal public service he was the chief of staff at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt.

Experienced as an instructor and a facilitator, Michael has covered such topics as accounting, logistics system implementation, performance measurement, and information management. He has been an associate faculty member since 2008 in the Royal Roads University Faculty of Management an advisor and/or reviewer for MBA students on their final comprehensive projects.  He is also an instructor for Chartered Professional Accountant professional development courses in strategy, risk management, and comptrollership. 

Michael holds a Master of Business Administration at Royal Roads University (2007) and a Master of Defence Studies from Royal Military College (2015). He was the first civilian to complete the Canadian Joint Command and Staff College Distance Learning Programme (2013). He is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) (2010) and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) (2013), and has completed executive certificates in strategic leadership (2010), executive development (2011) and communication and negotiation (2013) from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. 

Michael’s doctoral research focuses on strategy implementation and how managers experience systems in publicly funded healthcare organizations undergoing strategic change. This will be investigated through case studies that explore management practices in the fields of strategy-as-practice and institutional theory. He is the recipient of a RRU DBA Entrance Award, two annual scholarships from Island Health, and RRU DBA awards for leadership, caring, and potential to contribute to theory.