Advisors

Rane Carnegie

Rane Carnegie is the youngest grandchild of the late Dr. Herb Carnegie. 
 
A motivational speaker, mentor, life and hockey coach, Rane followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, and pursued a path in both the hockey and finance industries. 
 
A first round draft pick in the 2001 OHL draft, Rane went on to play professional hockey in the AHL, ECHL, CHL and finished his career overseas in Sweden, Finland, and France respectively. The former Halifax Mooseheads captain retired in 2012 after the birth of his son and transitioned into the world of finance.
 
In 2020, Rane started his own mentorship and development company called O.W.N (Our Way Now) Aces Sports Group, with the objective of being a positive influence in the lives of everyone with whom he comes into contact, through a Big Brother approach drawing from his unique life experiences.
 
An avid sports fan, passionate storyteller, and loving husband to his wife Brooke and 4 children (Myles, Mya and his 2 pups; Charlie and Chloe), Rane hopes to leave this world better than he found it, just as his grandfather had envisioned.

Brooke Chambers

With over 34 years of experience, Brooke has built a diverse professional career in mental health and anti-racism speaking, training, facilitation, financial planning, and policing.

Brooke is deeply committed to social justice issues, particularly in addressing health inequities and the oppression faced by racialized communities in Canada. As an Advisor to The Carnegie Initiative, she continues the important work initiated by her grandfather, Herb Carnegie and mother Bernice Carnegie. Additionally, she works as a trainer for, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information, training, and support to peer support workers across Canada.

In her previous role, Brooke served as a Mental Health Consultant for the Mental Health of Black Canadians Working Group at the Public Health Agency of Canada. The group’s mandate was to distribute $10 million to qualified programs and research projects that focused on improving access, equality, and inclusion of mental health services for diverse Black populations in Canada. This work also emphasized the intersectionality of LGBTQ2+ communities.

From 2018 to 2019, Brooke was appointed to the Canadian Ministerial Advisory Council on Mental Health for the Government of Canada, where she advised the Federal Minister of Health. At the age of nineteen, she became the youngest police officer ever hired by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in 1989 and was the only Black female officer at the time. During her tenure, she served in various roles, including traffic enforcement, accident investigation, coach officer, community engagement, strategic policy and planning, and fraud investigation.

Brooke, a third-generation hockey mom, resides in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. She holds a diploma in advanced policing from the Ontario Police College and certification as a Professional Financial Planner. In addition, she has earned certificates in unconscious bias training, mental health awareness as well as certificates as a Peer Support Worker and Trainer from the Ontario Peer Development Initiative.

Kenneth L. Shropshire – CEO, Global Sport Institute, adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport, Arizona State University; Professor Emeritus, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Professor Shropshire is CEO of the Global Sport Institute and the adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport at Arizona State University. He recently closed out a thirty-year career as an endowed full professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, Professor of Africana Studies, and Academic Director of Wharton’s sports-focused executive education programs. He now holds the title of Wharton Professor Emeritus. As an author, his books include: Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports; Negotiate Like the Pros: A Top Sports Negotiator’s Lessons for Making Deals, Building Relationships and Getting What You Want; and Being Sugar Ray: The Life of America’s Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete. Additional works include the foundational books In Black and White: Race and Sports in America; The Business of Sports; and The Business of Sports Agents. His twelfth book is The Mis-Education of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports, which was published last year. He graduated from Stanford in 1977 with a degree in economics and Columbia Law School in 1980. Before beginning his career in the academy he practiced law in Los Angeles and was an executive with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. He serves as a consultant to numerous sports entities.