Strategic Impact

The world's most important challenges are becoming more complex.

Organizational transformation. Governance. Major infrastructure. Indigenous partnerships. Public policy. Climate adaptation. Economic Development.

These initiatives involve multiple governments, Indigenous Nations, investors, regulators, businesses, communities, and leadership teams. They require decisions to be made across competing interests, changing conditions, and long-term responsibility.

Complex work succeeds when people have the capacity to adapt, align, make decisions, and carry those decisions forward.

Across Complex Systems

Over the past 25 years, this work has supported leaders responsible for governance, public policy, Indigenous partnerships, organizational transformation, emergency management, health, education, finance, and economic development. No two engagements have been the same.

Some have focused on leadership development. Others on governance, public engagement, strategic facilitation, organizational transformation, curriculum design, or institutional change.

Increasingly, this work involves helping leaders build the human capacity required to navigate complexity, strengthen relationships, and move important work forward.

Government & Public Administration

Worked alongside provincial and federal governments, Indigenous Nations, municipalities, and public agencies to strengthen governance, leadership, public engagement, and implementation.

This work has included province-wide policy initiatives, multi-party engagement processes, organizational transformation, and long-term strategic planning.

Representative organizations include:

• Government of Canada

• BC Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation

• Ministry of Children and Family Development

• Ministry of Forests, Lands & Resource Development

• Ministry of Climate Readiness and Adaptation

• City of Williams Lake

• District of Lake Country

Indigenous Leadership & Community Development

Worked alongside Indigenous Nations and organizations to strengthen governance, leadership, community planning, organizational development, emergency management, community safety, and economic development.

This work has included Indigenous-led planning processes, leadership development, governance support, and long-term capacity building across communities.

Health & Professional Regulation

Supported health organizations and professional regulators navigating significant organizational and systems change by strengthening leadership, belonging, governance, and human capacity.

Representative organizations include:

• First Nations Health Authority

• BC Centre for Disease Control

• BC College of Nurses and Midwives

• College of Pharmacists of BC

• College of Health and Care Professionals of BC

Beyond keynote presentations, organizations have incorporated this work into broader leadership development and organizational transformation initiatives, including strategic work to strengthen public trust, organizational culture, and regulatory practice.

Education & Leadership Learning

Cultivating Safe Spaces has been incorporated into university learning, executive education, professional development, and open educational resources.

Representative institutions include:

• University of British Columbia

• Simon Fraser University

• Thompson Rivers University

• Royal Roads University

• University of Waterloo

• Red River College Polytechnic

The work has also been featured through institutional leadership initiatives and remains publicly available through university learning resources, extending its reach beyond individual workshops.

Emergency Management & Public Safety

Supported leaders working in environments where collaboration, trust, and adaptive decision-making directly influence public outcomes.

This includes emergency operations, policing, community safety, climate adaptation, and multi-jurisdictional governance.

Representative organizations include:

• British Columbia Municipal & Regional Emergency Operations Teams

• Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police

• Advancing "We" in Policing

• Path Forward for Women and Girls Safety

• British Columbia Flood Strategy

• First Nations Climate Leadership

Finance, Infrastructure & Corporate Leadership

Worked with organizations responsible for investment, governance, infrastructure, organizational change, and Indigenous partnerships.

Representative organizations include:

• Government Finance Officers Association (U.S. & Canada)

• Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of BC

• FortisBC

• Deloitte Indigenous Practice

• Animikii

• First Nations Technology Council

• Women in Enbridge

Research, Learning & Public Impact

The work has continued to grow through research, evaluation, and national learning initiatives.

Cultivating Safe Spaces has been:

• independently evaluated by the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC)

• incorporated into university learning resources

• featured through institutional leadership programming

• delivered nationally through the Moose Hide Campaign

• carried forward by more than 200 trained facilitators working across Canada and the United States

Research, Scholarship & Healing Practice

Cultivating Safe Spaces and Calling My Spirit Back have moved beyond live training into independent evaluation, graduate scholarship, university learning, public health, counselling and trauma-informed practice.

In 2024, SPARC BC completed an independent program theory and formative evaluation of CSS, documenting its roots in Enowkinwixw and its application across governance, public engagement, human resources and individual practice.

Calling My Spirit Back is cited in graduate research in Canada and the United States, including a San Francisco State University master’s thesis on Indigenous matriarchal leadership and healing and a UBC doctoral dissertation on decolonizing and Indigenizing learning spaces. It is also held in Interior Health’s Indigenous Health Collection as a resource connected to mental healing, spiritual therapies and adult survivors of child abuse.

The work continues to reach counsellors, anti-violence practitioners, health professionals, regulators, educators and others responsible for helping people and institutions navigate trauma, conflict and change.

This growing body of research and practice demonstrates the relevance of CSS as a broader Human Capacity Architecture for adaptation, decision-making and responsibility under pressure.

In 2024, SPARC BC completed an independent program theory and formative evaluation of Cultivating Safe Spaces.

Calling My Spirit Back is cited in graduate scholarship in Canada and the United States, including a San Francisco State University master’s thesis on Indigenous matriarchal leadership and healing and a UBC doctoral dissertation on decolonizing and Indigenizing learning spaces.

The book is also held in Interior Health’s Indigenous Health Collection, where it is indexed under mental healing, spiritual therapies, and adult survivors of child abuse.

Building More Durable Public Policy

Gender-Based Violence Action Plan

Led Indigenous engagement supporting British Columbia's provincial action plan.

Impact

• Stable funding for 70 sexual assault programs

• 22 Indigenous-specific services

• Better alignment between Indigenous priorities and long-term funding

What it demonstrates

Policy becomes more durable when implementation is designed alongside the people responsible for carrying it.

Governance Across Jurisdictions

BC Flood Strategy

Led engagement bringing together First Nations, municipalities, provincial ministries, and federal partners.

Impact

Supported alignment across jurisdictions responsible for long-term climate resilience and infrastructure planning.

What it demonstrates

Complex infrastructure depends as much on governance and relationships as it does on engineering.