Edward Tilley

I raised six terrific kids, built six high-tech startup companies, I learned something new every day of a high-tech engineering career. I was twice a CIO; twice a CTO; three times CEO and led 300+ projects, a dozen major programs with budgets up to $100 million, 40 staff, and 200+ team members. 

I founded and built of one of the largest local Minor Football organizations in Toronto which gave me the chance to hire eight management teams every year as well. My hopes for the next generation connects me to the future. 

I can say easily that I am a capable big-picture, process-minded, strategic thinker; a good boss and leader with a well-balanced resume for someone who thinks they know enough about common sense to write a book on the subject. I hold no doctorate in clinical psychology nor economics but exceed a PhD equivalence in Engineering and Technology via experience. I try to be hardworking, conscientious, honorable, and moral enough in all things and I deeply enjoy intelligent, academic debate.

Family and society are important to me. My forefathers were Pilgrims, Puritans, and Founding Fathers. My history connects me to the importance of leveraging lessons from the past and so I live through lean years and good years and try to enjoy them both the same.

CSQ is an important topic and book and I hope that I’ve done its complex and diverse subject matter justice; as well as any author could anyway. I would consider it a tremendous success if you find the lessons helpful and also find it in keeping with the values of your community enough to suggest that it become a course for young teens - giving them the processes to help their friends and families for a lifetime – that most of us take a lifetime to attain.