WHAT WE OFFER

Discovery-based consulting and coaching for healthier leadership.

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Our Leadership Services

For 30 years we’ve been helping leadership teams like yours navigate the critical steps between good and great.
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Organizational Health Consulting

Whether engaging conflict, integrating new team members, planning for the future, or navigating a crisis, our expert insights guide you through challenges countless organizations face.

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Executive Coaching

The only changes that count are the ones that actually work. Our refined coaching process is geared towards measurable, visible, tangible results. (And yes, we coach board members too.)

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Governance Consulting

True organizational health includes the board of directors. After 30+ years of work supporting boards of all kinds, we see a future where imperfect boards become profoundly impactful.

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Executive Team Building

Develop true clarity and cohesion through a two-day offsite or online team event. Pair this with our consulting experience to get that all-important implementation.

It has been a great experience working with you, Freda. Your character and personal values permeate everything you do including your work with Alberta Milk. This has left us in a better place than before you came. Thank you for everything you have done.
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Stuart Boeve

Board Chair

Alberta Milk

The comprehensive and detailed analysis OrgHealth provided us has been invaluable in informing our strategic decisions as we look forward to a season of stronger fiscal health. Karen’s dedication, professionalism, and thoroughness has made a significant impact on how we see our organization and the context we are currently in. Thank you once again for your outstanding contribution.
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Tracy Minke

Vice President

EMCC National Board

Karen Kirkwood is an experienced facilitator with an extensive background in governance, strategic planning and agricultural sectors. She guided the Egg Farmers of Canada Board of Directors in their annual strategic planning exercise, which included a comprehensive review of our vision, mission and values statements and a highly interactive governance training session. Her approach allowed for a constructive consultation process with core stakeholders as well as in-depth discussions across our Directors on priority issues. Her multifaceted knowledge of our sector, governance best practices and measurement mechanisms allowed for a collaborative process and the delivery of a framework that reflects our future ambitions. Throughout our engagement, Karen consistently delivered high-quality material and offered strong support to both myself and our team. We are very pleased with the outcome and look forward to continuing to work with Karen in the years to come.
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Drew Black

CEO

Egg Farmers of Canada

Our experience with Karen really impressed me. She identified needs and goals in advance, and then skillfully led the session with a high level of emotional intelligence and honesty, including relevant real-world examples that our whole board appreciated and engaged with. Karen followed through on every expectation, definitely a 10/10.
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Cara Prout

Executive Director

Alberta Turkey Producers

Jim Brown did a masterful job of leading our large group through a process that drew out people’s thinking and questions to build broad ownership in a plan for our future. He kept our discussion at a high level, helpfully pulling us out of details many times. Not only did Jim help us create a plan, he orchestrated a powerful bonding experience for our organization’s leaders.
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Dr. Kevin Imrie

Physician-in-Chief

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Jim was able to miraculously get everyone on the same page. He didn’t steer the direction, he opened the doors to new ideas and we walked through to a better place than we would have ever reached without him.
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Percy Woods

BOMA

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Our expertise

How we can we help.

Common challenges we get asked to help with:

  • Alignment around priorities
  • Changes in executive team or board composition
  • Limited-window opportunities
  • Internal restructuring
  • Massive industry shifts
  • Succession challenges

Foundational challenges we end up helping with:

  • Mistrust and micromanagement
  • Misaligned expectations
  • Artificial harmony blocking necessary problems from being addressed
  • Alliances between certain team members
  • Disconnect between SLT and management
  • Disconnect between board and CEO

New norms we help clients achieve:

  • Crystallized clarity around priorities and values as an organization
  • Increased trust between executive team members
  • Improved behaviours in communication and accountability
  • Consistent, visible modelling of the culture you want your company to have
  • Rewarding company goals are set and met consistently
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Our approach

We leverage assessments and follow through with personal guidance.

What does "getting started" look like? We believe deep understanding is the touchstone—both for us and for you.

1. Diagnosis

Our first deliverable to you is a clearer picture of what's really going on. We use assessments and other methods to surface information that is often out of view (due to blind spots, power dynamics, false harmony), and then present what we've learned in a way that protects the safety of those who shared. These insights can be absolute game-changers on how to move forward.

2. Sense-Making

Putting the pieces together and gaining shared clarity is a collaborative effort. Through facilitated conversations, one-on-ones, and/or team sessions, we help everyone involved get on the some page about the current situation and rally energy towards the outcomes that matter most to you.

3. Design

With a shared understanding, we present options on some of the different ways we can work together towards the outcomes you have identified. We typically provide milestone-based roadmaps with short- and long-term goals, and often include a combination of coaching (group or one-on-one), team sessions, and ad hoc support. With systems and structure to support and measure your progress, we are not afraid to flex and shift as the unexpected predictably arises along the way.

How Can We Help?

Let us know what’s on your mind. We’ll follow up soon.

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Alignment through trust.
Innovation from everyone.
Implementation is everything.