Your partner in effective participatory decision making and planning

With over two decades of experience in strategic and operational planning and implementation, I partner with established and emerging social-impact organizations, groups, and leaders and support them in making difficult decisions and planning transformational change.

Services

  • Organizational assessment & design

  • Strategic and operational planning

  • Process design and facilitation

  • Strategic thought partnership

  • Community consultation

  • Project management

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What People Are Saying

“Things are immeasurably better when Nicki is in the room.”

— Annette DeFaveri, Former Executive Director, BC Library Association

“I was in the Strategic Planning zoom call this week and I just wanted to send a quick note over to you about how impressed I was with you! I’ve spent too many hours in strategic planning sessions for a diversity of orgs and companies. I thought you were an absolutely stellar facilitator, communicator, organizer and space-holder. It was a pleasure to be guided by someone who is clearly very good at their job and such a professional.”

— Daniel Garfinkel, Extension Associate - Farm School Manager, KPU

“I experienced you as a way-finder: you explored pathways with the group and then gently but firmly guided us to a result that served as a critical tool in communicating identified tangible actions for systemic change.”

- Tracy Wideman, former Co-Chair, Multicultural Advisory Committee

“You come recommended very highly by people who I trust absolutely and still you have exceeded my expectations. You kept up the energy levels and engagement, listened hard, and poked when needed. Without exception, everyone in the room over the last two days approached me to say how impressed they are with your skills and how far you moved us forward.”

— Beth Davies, Chief Librarian, Burnaby Public Library

“You do not default to hierarchy and instead you lean into the tensions that may be operating in a process; you are able to hold accountable those with the most power in the room. A lot of us feel safer with the container you create for these tough conversations. And you bring lightness and humour, as you help us find our way to the heart of the issues.”

“Nicki has a strong ability to assess a situation and dynamic, and get to the crux of the concerns or what is getting in the way of flow.”

- Composite comment from 360 Assessement Report prepared by Tracy Wideman