When your way forward
has to be found, not followed.

You know the way forward isn't linear. You might be experiencing friction, feeling stuck, or grappling with the potential of many possible paths. The work is calling for a different kind of attention, and will take a different kind of leadership, because this goal is ambitious and unprecedented territory for you.

Developing a practice of working in rapid, intentional cycles helps you build momentum. When you take small, low-risk steps you can learn from, follow what shows promise, and adapt as you go, the path reveals itself.

I help leaders and organizations engage with complexity, create clarity through action, and develop the capacity to adapt as they learn.

Find direction in complexity

See the system, uncover opportunities, and invest your resources in the most promising pathways.

Turn possibility into practice

Move from idea to action, test new approaches in real-world conditions, and learn what holds promise, what needs to change, and what to do next.

STAY EVER-SO-CURIOUS.

Strengthen adaptive capacity

Recognize changing conditions, learn through action, and adjust course while staying oriented toward what matters.

WE STEP INTO THE FIELD TOGETHER AND MOVE FORWARD TOWARD YOUR INTENTION

Featured initiatives I've had the privilege of stepping into. In each case, a high potential idea required focusing attention, resources, and strategy towards the most promising impact.

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Designing a Métis Judicial Body from the Ground Up
Designing a Métis Judicial Body from the Ground Up

System Design

Developmental Evaluation · Organizational Design

M Poitras Ethics, Law and Design for Métis Nation, Saskatchewan

Canada's courts were not built on Indigenous values, traditions, or languages. After resolutions, self-government agreements, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples established both the right and the necessity, the Métis Nation, Saskatchewan set out to design such a body from scratch, with the full weight of community and future generations' expectations behind it.

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Changing the Conversation around Diabetes
Changing the Conversation around Diabetes


System Change

Developmental Evaluation

Diabetes Canada

Diabetes Canada’s Change the Conversation (CTC), an initiative that seeks to transform how Canadians communicate and act on diabetes by mobilizing knowledge and innovative programs that shift language, values, and beliefs, so people with diabetes feel more seen, valued, and supported. The idea is ambitious, and the path is being flagged as we travel it.

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Regenerative Business Through Acquisition Finds Its Form
Regenerative Business Through Acquisition Finds Its Form

System Innovation

Co-creative Partnership · Developmental Evaluation · Organizational Design

Regenerative Capital Group

By bringing together entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) and regenerative development, Regenerative Capital Group (RCG) aims to transition values-aligned leaders into these businesses—and support them to steward and evolve them as living systems, contributing to the long-term health of the communities and ecosystems they are embedded within.

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A Search Process as Values in Action
A Search Process as Values in Action


HR Process Innovation

Organizational Design · Developmental Evaluation Approach

In collaboration with Work.Shouldn't.Suck. for Opera Philadelphia 

When Opera Philadelphia's General Director David Devan invited Tim Cynovaand I to reimagine their executive search process, the ask was specific and ambitious: deconstruct how hiring is typically done and reimagine it from the ground up, centering equity, inclusion, and candidate care.

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Partnership Stories

I’M READY WHEN YOU ARE

Developmental Evaluation

1.

For organizations doing complex, high-potential system-level work. When the work is still taking shape, developmental evaluation is an essential lens for innovation. Inquiry-based, iterative, and designed to integrate learning in real time.

Coaching and Co-creation

2.

One to one or with a group, for when you're finding your way through something with high stakes and are ready to develop your capacity to orient, learn, and adapt when the path isn't clear. Could be pure coaching or blended with co-creative thought-partnership.

3.

Custom Project Partnerships

For organizations with high-potential strategic or organizational design initiatives, projects, or priorities that need to be approached with their full weight and reach in mind. We build learning and adaptation into the process in real time to keep moving forward.

Ways to work together

Collaborating with Katrina as our developmental evaluator has helped me recognize progressive patterns over time and what needs to be changed. It has been generative and supported our team with adapting to challenges. Sometimes when we’re all so embedded in the work and the relationships that feel familiar, it can be hard to take a step back and reflect on emerging dynamics occurring within such complex and interconnected systems, let alone know what’s working and what isn’t.

YARA YOUNIS
Refugee Livelihood Lab Manager, SFU RADIUS
Social Innovation Hub

"Embracing a curiosity mindset had a direct impact on the launch of our first cohort of amazingly diverse and talented entrepreneurs, as well as the market traction we gained in raising our first fund. Working with Katrina brought expansive ideation, joy, ease, and bigger-picture thinking to our work, and helped us to see possibility and ‘generative constraint’ opportunities in every obstacle and tension on our path. "

CORDELL JACKS
CEO & General Partner, Regenerative Capital Group

I SUPPORT PEOPLE IN THE MESSINESS OF THEIR MOST AMBITIOUS GOALS

"Working with Katrina has been transformative, both professionally and personally. She helped me uncover insights about myself and my work that truly shifted my perspective, liberating me from patterns of thinking I didn't realize were holding me back. I'm starting to align long-term goals with small daily actions, and approach my challenges in a way that develops clarity and confidence over time."

JULIA NORTHWAY
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, Revelstoke Electric

What clients say

You’re in the right place if:

  • You’re on the edge of something with huge potential and need to find your bearings, make decisions, and move forward amid tension and uncertainty.

  • You have lots of ideas and need to identify where to focus your energy and what to do next.

  • You’re developing something new and want to learn in real time, using evidence and experience to shape what happens next.

  • You’re ready to reimagine systems, structures, practices, or policies.

  • Your strategy looks good on paper, but you need to adapt it to real-world conditions.

  • You're leading change and need a thought partner to help you see patterns, challenge assumptions, and make progress.

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