Our Community of Practice

A community of practice is a new organizational form that is emerging and being recognized in many organizations and spaces that rely on knowledge. Communities of practice galvanize knowledge, sharing, learning and change. EcoSol Consulting Inc.’s community of practice is a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a shared vision. This community gives us the support, knowledge and expertise we need to work effectively with a variety of clients and issues, while maintaining a flexible and open climate for innovation and creativity.

This diverse group of individuals, consultants, colleagues, and mentors create an interdependent web that informs, sustains and builds our practice. We share knowledge in free-flowing creative ways that foster new approaches and learning. We are self-organizing, informal and build fluid, flexible processes and structures for working together. Collectively we are able to push beyond boundaries, generate creative approaches to addressing complex issues, and provide the best possible service to each client with whom we work.

We honor and respect each element of our community of practice, and the linkages it provides to a global network of innovation, knowledge, inspiration and passion. We proudly acknowledge them. They are:

• Insight Out Consulting Inc. specializes in facilitating corporations and their employees to deal with both the positive and negative aspects of change to their advantage by helping to overcome the human obstacles that impede its acceptance and by helping companies capitalize on the opportunities that change affords them. Dawna Jones, President, has a reputation for doing in-depth results oriented work while connecting meaning and purpose into the environment. Contact: alleyesopen@axionet.com

• Kermode Consulting Ltd. provides consulting services to industrial, commercial and institutional clients across Canada and in the United States. Mr. Evan Jones, MASc, PEng, CEA, Principal, has in-depth experience as a senior environmental engineer, project manager, and business manager. He has worked in the diverse areas of municipal/regional studies, environmental management systems (EMS) development, and waste and wastewater management. Contact: kermode@direct.ca

• PRET Inc., [Process Reengineering & Environmental Technologies] specializes in environmental and management consulting. President, Mr. Tom Crawford BASc, MASc, PEng is skilled at strategic assessments and planning, policy review/development, industrial engineering or business process reengineering, operations and organization analysis/research and design or redesign, process simulation, and managerial and environmental economics. Contact: www.pretinc.com

• The SMC Group is committed to building a strong framework to enable the development and growth of the individual, organization or community within. Directors, Gail Todd and Toby Rabinovitz consult with organizations, foundations, public agencies, businesses and government who interact with the non-profit, voluntary and third sector. Consultation, research, facilitation and development. services provide value to a variety of stakeholders, especially those grappling with change, such as boards of directors, senior managers and funding agencies. Contact: gailtodd@capitalnet.com

• Threshold Facilitation has been designing deliberate, systematic processes that leaders and employees can use to respond to daily challenges with creative and innovative results. Dennis Cherenko, President, is a master at developing learning programs which link purpose and values to daily actions and longer term impact on the lives of people working in organizations. Contact: threshold_facilitation@hotmail.com

• MacDonald Consulting Marie MacDonald is an experienced manager, educator, facilitator and coach who has managed her human resource development firm since 1989. Marie offers custom designed programs and consulting services to the public, private and non-profit sector throughout British Columbia. She works with leaders from a systems perspective to empower the human potential in complex organizational change. She has worked extensively with staff groups to increase change resilience and maintain wellness and balance during challenging changes. Keenly interested in the relationship between personal well being and organizational health, Marie, believes the ability to increase organizational change resilience is required at all levels of organizational life. Contact her at vermac@telus.net

• Anne Wright and Associates Anne has over twenty years experience in working with change and innovation in the health and social service sectors. She has worked extensively in strategic planning, system change, and brings a creative, reflective approach to her work. A special area of interest is in helping organizations with partnership and multi-organizational systems change. She has recently worked to create a stakeholder governance model, a continuous learning plan and tools on population health, and has been involved in leading a system-wide restructuring initiative. Contact her at annewright@sympatico.ca

• South House Exchange Kate McLaren is a partner of, an Ottawa-based consulting group specializing in organizational development and international development. Kate brings a background in public administration and gender diversity work to her practice in organizational development and facilitation. She specializes in using an appreciative lens, and visual metaphors and graphics in her work. Contact her at shekim@sympatico.ca

Our Community also includes an expanding and evolving network of individuals and groups who support our transformation and learning.