Hal Walker
principal – business Advisory Services
Hal is a developer and entrepreneur with more than 45 years of experience in real estate investment and development, corporate organization and operation, and senior level political advisory work. His companies have built destination resorts, hotels, residential, and commercial projects in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean.
As Principal, Business Advisory Services at ISP, Hal advises clients on business strategy, drawing on a career spent founding and governing companies, limited partnerships, and joint ventures that extend from 1979 to the present.
Through Meredith Michael Company Ltd., Hal developed the Hyatt Regency Calgary, SilverTip Resort in Canmore, Eagle Ranch Resort in Windermere, Falcon Crest Lodge condominium hotel in Canmore, and Copperstone Village in Airdrie. In the Caribbean, he built the Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman and Britannia Golf and Country Club which was designed and built by Jack Nicklaus and Golden Bear Golf. From 2017 through 2022 he was Chair of Alliston Group, a residential homebuilder in Calgary and he remains a non-active minority owner. Hal has also chaired the board of Stone Creek Properties and Werklund Foundation and sat on the boards of AGRA Industries and Executive Trust.
Hal’s political involvement spans five decades of Alberta politics. He chaired Ralph Klein’s campaign for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party in 1992 and co-authored the ABC Report that formed the basis of the Klein government’s reforms, later acting as a senior advisor to Premier Klein. He was President of the Alberta Wildrose Party in 2010 and 2011, advised Jason Kenney from 2017 to 2023 through the merger that created the United Conservative Party, and has been an advisor to Premier Danielle Smith.
His board service includes terms as Chair of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Alberta University of the Arts, and on the Calgary Committee to End Homelessness. He was also a member of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund Canada and was Calgary Chair of TIGER 21. He received the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in 1992, and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022.
Hal holds a Business Administration Diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and studied political science at the University of Saskatchewan.
Hal enjoys running, working out, golf, travel, cooking, collecting art and mostly spending time with his wife Maddie and their son and daughter-in-law and granddaughters.
Hal Walker
Principal – Business Advisory Services
Hal is a developer and entrepreneur with more than 45 years of experience in real estate investment and development, corporate organization and operation, and senior level political advisory work. His companies have built destination resorts, hotels, residential, and commercial projects in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean.
As Principal, Business Advisory Services at ISP, Hal advises clients on business strategy, drawing on a career spent founding and governing companies, limited partnerships, and joint ventures that extend from 1979 to the present.
Through Meredith Michael Company Ltd., Hal developed the Hyatt Regency Calgary, SilverTip Resort in Canmore, Eagle Ranch Resort in Windermere, Falcon Crest Lodge condominium hotel in Canmore, and Copperstone Village in Airdrie. In the Caribbean, he built the Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman and Britannia Golf and Country Club which was designed and built by Jack Nicklaus and Golden Bear Golf. From 2017 through 2022 he was Chair of Alliston Group, a residential homebuilder in Calgary and he remains a non-active minority owner. Hal has also chaired the board of Stone Creek Properties and Werklund Foundation and sat on the boards of AGRA Industries and Executive Trust.
Hal’s political involvement spans five decades of Alberta politics. He chaired Ralph Klein’s campaign for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party in 1992 and co-authored the ABC Report that formed the basis of the Klein government’s reforms, later acting as a senior advisor to Premier Klein. He was President of the Alberta Wildrose Party in 2010 and 2011, advised Jason Kenney from 2017 to 2023 through the merger that created the United Conservative Party, and has been an advisor to Premier Danielle Smith.
His board service includes terms as Chair of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Alberta University of the Arts, and on the Calgary Committee to End Homelessness. He was also a member of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund Canada and was Calgary Chair of TIGER 21. He received the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in 1992, and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022.
Hal holds a Business Administration Diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and studied political science at the University of Saskatchewan.
Hal enjoys running, working out, golf, travel, cooking, collecting art and mostly spending time with his wife Maddie and their son and daughter-in-law and granddaughters.