The Simple Strategic Plan is designed to help smaller organizations with limited budgets understand their place in the current  environment and chart a clear course to build a more vibrant future.

Hidden Costs Of Hidden Homophobia offers an inclusive, mutually supportive workshop that helps participants recognize hidden bias and break free of prejudice and the stereotypical emotional and behavioural straightjackets that undermine critical relationships inside and outside your organization.

An outside point of view can be invaluable in helping organizations understand where they are in their journey, the environment in which they operate, and who they serve and how they serve them. The Strategic Planning Process helps organizations acquire that knowledge and use it to craft a compelling vision to lead the organization that engages and embraces all stakeholders around a shared vision for the future.

As President, I helped lead the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture through the COVID pandemic, and also led Gays and Lesbians of UBC through the AIDS Crisis.

Organizations exhibit particular challenges and opportunities depending on the lifecycle stage they currently occupy. 

Understanding which stage your organization is currently in and the typical challenges and opportunities inherent in that stage can help leadership feel less isolated, know what is normal, plan for the future, put problems in context and manage transition more effectively.

All (Western) music is made from the same twelve notes and all culture is made from the same five components: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, and Environment. It’s the way those notes or components are combined that makes things sing.