Tracy Mullins is a geographer, planner and explorer. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, in the heart of Northern Ontario. Tracy spent his youth deeply involved in the Scouting movement hiking, camping and canoeing in the northern wilderness. Campfire tails of his relatives adventures, homesteading the Goulais River and living and working the land with their Anishnibeq and Metis neibours were the start of his connection to the land. This love of the wilderness and exploration lead to rambles in the backwoods of most of North America. Tracy’s strong sense of community and land ethic has had him deeply involved in public service. Tracy has served on economic development boards, historic sites boards, festival and special event boards, public and private, both in Canada and the United States. In 1998 Tracy Mullins was awarded the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh’s Award by His Royal Highness the Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh for community involvement and athletics. After representing Canada as part of an international team on expeditions in the Caribbean, Tracy became one of the editors of the first Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Canada Expedition Manuel. In 1989, Mr Mullins was part of the highly successful Sir Alexander Mackenzie Canada Sea to Sea Expeditions, paddling 3,235 kilometres from Fort McMurry Alberta to Gary Island in the Arctic Ocean. As part of the team, Tracy portrayed Sir Alexander McKenzie in numerous public appearances throughout Canada. Over the years Tracy has changed his career several times, apprenticing as a chef, working as a chauffeur, bodyguard, steelworker, railroader, surveyor, bartender, canoe guide, trapper and construction worker to name a few. Tracy Mullins has held several executive positions as President of Resort Management Systems Inc. in Canada, and Vice President of International Operations and Finance for Great Lakes Interlinks, Inc and GLII Canada, and VP Business Geographics for RMS Consulting of Monroe Michigan. A writer, actor and provider of various workshops, Mr Mullins is largely self-educated, but a firm believer in lifelong learning. Tracy holds an Honours Bachelors of Outdoor Recreation, Tourism and Park Planning degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, an Associates Degree in Tourism and Recreation Resource Management. He has also performed Masters level coursework in Public Administration and Business Administration as well as undergraduate course in biology. Currently, Mullins is working on a Master’s of Science degree in Geography with a concentration in Urban Planning on a full scholarship. Tracy Mullins sees himself as a modern pathfinder and explorer, a problem solving resource person who leads his clients through the jungles of the business world. Skills of observation, adaptation and leadership honed on expedition are used, as part of the planning process, to evolve a client’s vision into a workable business plan. In addition to this, Mr. Mullins uses the art of planning, the union of design and technologies in which he crosses the disciplines of Urban Planning, Tourism Planning and Marketing to raise clients project to new levels. Mr Mullins has found that the process by which a successful client project is produced is a complex multifaceted skill that requires the ability not only to design an organisation, facility or event, but to management political circumstances, economics, organisation of skills and people. Tracy knows that design never stops and that throughout the process of implementation the so-called original idea is reformed many times even down to the last moments that the job is finished. Using tools such as the Visitor Activity Management Process the client designs their own project and together, they create a value-added solution, which is highly attractive to sponsorship. For more than 10 years Tracy has aided clients into turning their dream project into a working profitable reality through a market driven project planning. Tracy spends his leisure time canoeing, rock climbing, entertaining or loafing on the racing sloop Carabiner Queen