Calvin Darrell Helin

 

Mr. Helin is a member of the Tsimshian Nation from the Northern B.C. community of Lax Kw’alaams (Port Simpson). He is son of hereditary Chief, Smoogyit Nees Nuugan Noos (Barry Helin), of the Royal House of Gitlan, and Sigyidmhanaa Su Dalx (Verna Helin), matron of the Royal House of Gitachngeek. He is also a practising lawyer and business person.

He is President and CEO of Eagle Group of Companies, LLC, Orca Spirit Publishing & Communications, Inc., and President of the Native Investment and Trade Association. Recently Mr. Helin was appointed to the National Council on Welfare (a body that advises the federal Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development), and to the Advisory Cabinet of the SOS Children’s Village BC (an organization that provides foster children with homes and support).

Chosen as one of the top “40 Under 40” entrepreneurs in British Columbia by the news publication, Business in Vancouver. Recipient of “Top 40 Under 40” national award sponsored by The Financial Post Magazine (now sponsored by the Globe and Mail) and other major Canadian corporations. Leader of international trade missions to China and New Zealand.

Author of several publications relating to law, Aboriginal business, and associated issues. With the release of his best-selling book, Dances with Dependency: Out of Poverty through Self-Reliance, Mr. Helin has developed an international reputation and following as both author and advocate. The book has ridden a groundswell of public interest in Canada rocketing to triple best seller status with enormous interest expressed in its international publication. Dances with Dependency was launched in the U.S. in April 2008, and is already garnering significant media and public interest. Through this book, Mr. Helin offers hope for a better life to any population trapped in dependency, through a strategic blueprint to greater self-reliance, and integrity.

Mr. Helin has founded and instructs at the Shudokan East Vancouver Karate Club--an effort that provides martial arts lessons at no cost to poor inner-city children as a way of teaching them discipline, manners, self-respect and other important lessons that might be applied to all areas of their lives. A portion of the profits from his best-selling book are being donated to the Shudokan Canada Education and Karate Society, an organization formed to help inner-city youth find their own ways to self-reliance—a timely idea that’s moment has clearly come!

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