We have worked successfully with business across sectors to advance their mandate and agenda. We offer strategic planning, change leadership consulting, and leadership coaching and development that supports leading organizations to achieve exceptional results.

Manulife Financial

• Supporting the senior leaders of investment operations to build a new team following a significant merger with another organization.

Deloitte

• Worked with local offices to align senior managers and partners from various merged entities behind a common plan for the future.
• Co-developed and taught global leadership, team development, consulting and facilitation courses to leaders in the firm in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America.

Scotiabank

• Supporting the senior leadership team in Corporate, Public and Government Affairs to come together as a team to lead a significant change in the organization.

Hull and Hull

• Increased engagement across the firm through co-creation and clarification of vision, strategy and accountabilities, leadership coaching and design and facilitation of strategically relevant learning.

We relate to organizations engaged in Social Enterprises as a community united by a common passion, a collective need, or a desire to improve their part of the world. We approach this development work with a belief in the capacity that already exists within the community itself. We use a partnership model, engaging in capacity building at all levels of our involvement. We believe that community development thrives in an environment of collaborative action and learning.

In Social Enterprises, we have brought stakeholders from across sectors, nationalities and cultures together to create common plans for the future and enhance community service. We have helped to build their leadership capacity and created transformative conversations that led to generative and meaningful change.

Advancing Interprofessional Education and Collaboration In Healthcare

• As part of multiple projects, the Potential Group was a recipient of the 2009 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in (Health) Education for Catalysing and Sustaining Communities of Collaboration Around Interprofessional Care (CCIC) Project.

United Nations High Commission for Refugees

• Collaboratively designed and delivered strategic leadership development program for senior leaders working in Asia and Middle East and North Africa regions as well as with leaders in Geneva that support the Regions.

Collaborative Change Leadership in Healthcare

• Cate co-designed and co-led a new, yearlong collaborative change leadership program for 60 mid-level health professionals across Ontario responsible for implementing interprofessional care in their organizations. Successfully funded by a grant from HealthForce Ontario and overseen by the University Health Network and the Centre for Interprofessional Education.

The health care system is complex. This is a high stakes, highly relational environment, where we work with people in their most vulnerable states. Team members must collaborate to perform sometimes urgent, often unpredictable, and always interdependent tasks. Organizational effectiveness requires nuanced cognitive and social processes from a diverse group of practitioners. This must all be accomplished in ways that are congruent with the moral, financial, and practical concerns of the public that support this wide reaching system.

In health, creating and sustaining a robust system requires thinking and acting that account for multiple needs simultaneously. Happily, we have found an abundance of passion, insight, and commitment within each of the health care organizations we have worked. We look forward to continuing to contribute to this system.

Examples of Our Work

We have worked with numerous entities across Ontario, including:

• Academic Health Council – Champlain Region
• Baycrest Hospital
• Centre for Interprofessional Education
• University of Toronto
• North York Family Health Team
• Pediatric Investigators Network of Canada
• St. Joseph’s Health Centre
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Toronto East General Hospital
• Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
• Toronto Western Hospital Family Health Team
• University Health Network and Women’s College Hospital

Toronto General Hospital / Toronto Western Hospital

• Building Common Strategy / Common Focus Across a Large Health System
• Facilitation of strategy meetings with senior executives
• Orchestration of large scale engagement and gathering of input from front line staff and other stakeholders to inform strategic directions, goals and objectives
• Facilitation of annual strategic planning retreats with over 300 attendees to align areas of focus, create inspirational goals and implement innovations in patient care, safety and leadership

Best of Nursing

• In two health systems in Toronto, worked with nurses to articulate what nursing is at its best and how nursing will continue to evolve and grow as care models shift and innovate. In both systems, the work ignited passion for learning, community-building, quality care and strategic involvement among nurses and leaders.

The Interprofessional Collaboration and Education Sustainability Conference

• Designed and orchestrated a consultation process and multi-day summit to bring interested stakeholders together to take stock of progress in promoting collaborative practice in hospitals, family practices, health centres and other institutions across the province of Ontario.

Major Assessment on Transforming the Canadian Healthcare System to Improve Care for People with Chronic Conditions

• Co-designed and implemented a multi-pronged research and “think tank” effort to bring together key global thought leaders on improving care for people with chronic conditions
• Responsible for stakeholder development, conducting and synthesizing extensive literature reviews, and creating and writing an actionable strategic plan on behalf of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

St Joseph’s Healthcare Centre

• Developed and implemented coaching and facilitation training for key leaders to lead strategic team planning and development sessions for interprofessional colleagues on individual units and departments across the hospital.

Collaborative Change Leadership in Healthcare

• Cate co-designed and co-led a new, yearlong collaborative change leadership program for 60 mid-level health professionals across Ontario responsible for implementing interprofessional care in their organizations. Successfully funded by a grant from HealthForce Ontario and overseen by the University Health Network and the Centre for Interprofessional Education.