Introduction
As a leader you have tremendous influence over the organizational culture embedded through administrative systems and governance structures within your organization. Utilizing these systems and structures, we help you instill equity, anti-racism, and anti-oppression work into your organizational DNA. We help you consider who your administrative systems and governance structures are designed to serve and who will feel included in your organization. We work with you to remove barriers to good governance, creating the conditions for integrated and effective EDI practices that evolve with your strategy.
Our Core Belief
Governance is inextricably linked with EDI, anti-racism, and anti-oppression work, and “good” governance only exists with ongoing attention to these elements. Similarly, we know from experience that EDI, anti-racism, and anti-oppression work is effective when it is embedded in decision-making rather than being focused on training, education, and cultural celebrations.
Our Approach:
Co-creation Through Conversation
We ask questions that prompt deeper thinking, resulting in insights leading to more equitable designs. In conversation with you and your stakeholders, and through listening, we excavate the wisdom and data needed to co-create sustainable, context-specific solutions.
We work from a place of abundance – there is enough for all of us to have what we need. We are energized by helping leaders and organizations cultivate healthy, equitable, and effective anti-racist workplace ecosystems. Even when the work becomes hard, we enter the joy of creating meaningful and lasting contributions.
Our Services: Areas of Insight
We work with you to design governance solutions tailored in today’s ever-more complex, nuanced, and evolving environment. We help you imbue equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and anti-oppression work into the design of the administrative systems and processes that underpin good governance – in service of people who use and are impacted by these systems. Our areas of insight are:
Corporate Governance
Executive Leadership Advisory Services
Process Refinement
Strategy Implementation
Philanthropy Planning
We invite you to partner with us to accurately diagnose issues or problems and develop workable solutions grounded in equity, research, and emerging best practices.
Our Principal
Michelle L. Christian is a designer of better ways of doing things. She promotes equity and cultivates conditions that unlock diverse thinking, thereby adding value, helping to mitigate risks, and improving overall organizational culture.
Michelle is an executive administrative professional with 20+ years of experience partnering with CEOs, senior leadership teams, boards, and board committees to provide governance expertise and strategic administrative services. She is a collaborative relationship builder, employing art and design to help bring clarity and foster more profound understanding. Michelle has worked in dynamic and complex environments like mental health, community care, performance marketing, and healthcare philanthropy.
Michelle excels at analyzing systems and identifying patterns. A keen observer who picks up on subtleties, Michelle breaks things down into components, enabling her to reconfigure structures, procedures, and processes in new, different, and more equitable ways. Michelle is gifted at creating brave spaces where people’s ideas, experiences, and solutions are heard.
Her education, training, and skills are in business administration, corporate governance, board effectiveness, public relations, communications, and community engagement. Michelle is a United Way of Greater Toronto and Association of Administrative Professionals member. She holds the Love + Work Leader designation offered through Harvard Business Review and Marcus Buckingham and recently obtained her Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) certificate through the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Michelle is a Level 2 Graduate of the Council of Canadian Innovators Innovation Governance Program (iGP).
Our Principal
Michelle L. Christian is a designer of better ways of doing things. She promotes equity and cultivates conditions that unlock diverse thinking, thereby adding value, helping to mitigate risks, and improving overall organizational culture.
Michelle is an executive administrative professional with 20+ years of experience partnering with CEOs, senior leadership teams, boards, and board committees to provide governance expertise and strategic administrative services. She is a collaborative relationship builder, employing art and design to help bring clarity and foster more profound understanding. Michelle has worked in dynamic and complex environments like mental health, community care, performance marketing, and healthcare philanthropy.
Michelle excels at analyzing systems and identifying patterns. A keen observer who picks up on subtleties, Michelle breaks things down into components, enabling her to reconfigure structures, procedures, and processes in new, different, and more equitable ways. Michelle is gifted at creating brave spaces where people’s ideas, experiences, and solutions are heard.
Her education, training, and skills are in business administration, corporate governance, board effectiveness, public relations, communications, and community engagement. Michelle is a United Way of Greater Toronto and Association of Administrative Professionals member. She holds the Love + Work Leader designation offered through Harvard Business Review and Marcus Buckingham and recently obtained her Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) certificate through the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Michelle is a Level 2 Graduate of the Council of Canadian Innovators Innovation Governance Program (iGP).
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