SUPPORT FOR ORGS
DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION
Embedded evaluation capacity
for complex and adaptive initiatives.
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
Reimagine organizational structure and processes to align with values.
STRATEGY & PLANNING
Innovative strategies that are responsive to your changing context.
LEARNING DESIGN & FACILITATION
Bespoke experiences that inspire learning and build internal capacity.
TEAM COACHING
Enhance individual and collective capacity to achieve results.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Ideas to inspire your team and bring impactful change to life.
Developmental Evaluation
An Essential Lens for Innovation
Our Developmental Evaluation (DE) services help you be curious about what’s developing in real time, so you can navigate complexity and make data-informed decisions in context, towards your goals. DE is instrumental for organizations engaged in any innovative, adaptive challenges, because it aligns strategies, structures, processes, and systems with timely opportunities for learning. Through collective practice, a culture of trust and agility develops, helping teams navigate change and integrate innovative practices that enhance decision-making and maximize impact.
Why DE?
DE right-sizes risk by enabling data-informed decision making
Enhances dialogue and encourages critical thinking to ensure learning can
be integrated and solutions can be advanced,
Share learning with invested parties so they understand what is happening in
the initiative based on their interests.
Multi-Pronged Methodology
Using a combination of traditional evaluation tools (like polls, surveys, or interviews) and adapting tools from different modalities (like design thinking, or liberating structures), DE works in close relationship to the activities of the initiative as they emerge. A developmental evaluator makes feedback and data accessible in fast-paced environments, so learning can integrate in real time.
Developmental Evaluation for Complex Initiatives
When learning is integrated into org culture to support ongoing development and adaptation of internal structures and processes,
When you want to adapt effective principles from one context to another,
When you’re exploring innovative responses and real-time solutions in times of crisis,
When you are guiding pre-formative development of innovations with the potential for broad impact,
When system transformation is the end-goal, and an initiative is building a multi-level strategy across scales.
What Does a Developmental Evaluator Do?
A developmental evaluator works as an embedded member of your team, and adjusts their approach to the activities of the work as required, constantly toggling between the identification, implementation and assessment of evaluation methodology (i.e.: designing tools, testing small scale probes or experiments, tracking interventions and developments, and documenting learning), as well as acting as a critical friend to the process, creating opportunities to engage deeply and systematically (i.e.: to support framing and reframing key challenges and concepts, and raising questions) to surface learning and advance the process.
“Developmental Evaluation has given us space and opportunities to critically assess the work we do at the Lab, our relationships with communities, and our own mental models. It has helped us to reflect on emerging dynamics occurring within the complex and interconnected systems of our work, allowing us to move new and innovative ideas into action.”
-Yara Younis, Lab Manager Refugee Livelihood Lab, SFU RADIUS Social Innovation Hub
Organizational Design
Thriving Workplaces
The traditional policies, practices, and approaches to organizational design have remained largely unaltered for decades. They often don’t reflect our values, let alone be built to center them. Our values-based organizational design approach supports the transformation of HR, ensuring workplace policies, organizational structures and strategies, offerings, and practices are values-aligned, relevant, and responsive to the evolving needs of teams, organizations, and communities.
Juicy Challenges
Culture change
High turnover
Recruitment of key roles
Low employee engagement
Inability to adapt to change and uncertainty
Inconsistent decision making
Conflict and misalignment
Performance and productivity “issues”
Regenerative Futures
Values-based mindsets are nurtured
Organizational vision and strategies align
Knowledge is harvested from experience
Practices to encourage curiosity and innovation are embraced
Regenerative futures are cultivated
Reimagining What’s Possible
By focusing on identifying and unpacking key areas of your organizational design, including language, policies, offerings, and practices that can drive meaningful change, we calibrate the investment and energy of your teams to the potential for values-based impact within your organization. Rather than delivering a “full-service” solution, we guide you through the process, providing insights and support that enable your team to build their own capacity for this work as they experiment and adapt a key initiative in real time.
"How might leaders evolve their organizations to operate more in line with its values? The answers are at once embarrassingly obvious and devilishly perplexing. Katrina is an ideal guide for the work of untangling and re-weaving practice for a future where more people can thrive at work."
- Carolyn Davis, Director of Community Engagement, Momentum Calgary
Strategy & Planning
Setting You Up for Success
Resistance to change is often a reason traditional strategic plans fail. There isn’t always a precedent for where to start or what happens next, and even when there is, the plan may not be clearly communicated or activated due to a lack of alignment, capacity, or collaboration - or the persistence of internal silos.
Our services are tailored for organizations who want to reimagine their approach to strategic planning, by taking context, relevance, impact, and regenerative principles into consideration. We help you craft strategies that are data- informed and nimble in the face of change, while remaining impactful for the communities you serve.
Strategic Innovation
Impact-driven multi-year organizational planning processes
Approach strategies for start ups or entrepreneurial ventures
Early-stage design and development of change initiatives and system innovations
Community or network engagement processes
Commit to Curiosity
Examine what is possible, through the widest, most inclusive lens
Converge your focus in a way that is data-informed
Use rubric-guided decision making to determine your strategic approach and identify your priority developmental activities
Apply rigorous cycles of rapid feedback to test and learn during strategy activation
Create on-going opportunities to take stock and adapt forward toward goals to maximize meaningful impact
"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. 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."
- Cordell Jacks, CEO & General Partner, Regenerative Capital Group
Learning Design & Facilitation
Bespoke Experiences
Our approach to learning design develops capacity as leaders, collaborators, and change agents so your teams can navigate complexity in - and beyond your organization with a curious mind. We take the time to connect to make sure we understand your challenges and desired outcomes in context, and from multiple perspectives before we map the learning objectives, content, methodology, and facilitation to ensure we deliver against your needs. Our promise is that every learning experience is not only engaging but also aligned with your strategic goals.
Inspired Development
Integrating a learning experience into an existing conference or retreat
Up-skilling a group or standardizing training for parts of your organization
Launching a broader approach to organizational learning
High Potential Outcomes
Building culture and engagement
Onboarding, retention, and succession planning
Becoming a learning organization
Consistent knowledge development and skill-building
Developing leadership capacity for impact
Relational Facilitation
Strong facilitators as not just guides through a learning experience; they are catalysts for meaningful interactions and impactful outcomes. Our practice is guided by human-centered, liberatory design methodologies and we are committed to connecting with participants, communicating effectively, and being responsive to the dynamic needs of the group. We’re dedicated to creating a curious and collaborative atmosphere in our learning experiences - it’s fun for us to lead transformative experiences that continue to resonate long after the session ends.
“As a facilitator, Katrina was engaging, constructive, and promoted a safe and supportive environment that allowed me the space to discuss and share my thoughts freely. The nature of the training invited participants to actively participate and collaborate. The experience was not only informative but also enjoyable, and I left feeling inspired and motivated to implement what I learned.”
- Daljeet Meet, MA, Human Resources Specialist, University of British Columbia
Team Coaching
Evolve Separately & Together
From a systems-thinking perspective, cultivating a high-performing team through coaching is a long-term commitment. When it follows the trajectory of the team’s work together, it can develop resilience from the embedded support for individual reflection and team dialogue. This invites the team to share insights and learning, and encourages new behaviours through cycles of practice development.
Our approach to team coaching enhances both individual and collective capacity, equipping your team to tackle ambitious initiatives and keep momentum during periods of uncertainty.
Elevate Results
There are many motivations for focusing on how you work together, including:
Forming new teams and norms for engagement
Encouraging relational investment to build trustful, collaborative teams
Developing the personal leadership of team members and improving performance
Establishing protocols and practice around feedback and conflict resolution
Creating shared accountability and success metrics
Collaborative Growth
Team coaching is most successful when it is:
Offered in the spirit of positive intent in service to shared goals
Integrated into the dynamic work the team does together
A shared commitment to continuous improvement
“Katrina is incredibly supportive and insightful. She has the unique ability to always be curious and to help others ask the impactful and important questions that we otherwise wouldn’t be asking. Her keen sense of how to bring people together to collaborate and sense make together is one of her many superpowers.”
- Erica Chemko, Program Manager, Indigenous Leadership, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Speaking Engagements
Bring Impactful Change To Life
Current Topics Include:
Embracing the Messy Middle of Change: The value of small-scale experimentation in real-time
Adaptive Capacity: Developing resilience in the face of change
Change is a Beast: Leading change with self-awareness and empathy
Conflict and Curiosity: Turning tension into innovation
Inspire Your Team
Delivery available in person or virtually
Q&A or Facilitated Breakout
Tools To Practice
Resource and practice handouts provided
“Katrina’s unwavering commitment to centering kindness and care and her patience with us as we navigated a new process and workflow were exemplary.”
- David Devan, General Director & President, Opera Philadelphia
Pricing for Orgs
We recognize and appreciate that every organization has different needs and don’t fit into a particular mode. We will tailor your quote to your needs after a complimentary discovery call.