Do you need a strategic plan around which to coalesce your community?
Or, a theory of change in which to ground your impact?
Are you looking for support with an organizational or strategic initiative from someone comfortable with big picture thinking, who believes the right question is as important as the answer, and who is committed to centring community?
Valery’s almost 20 year career as a health and social sector executive has spanned levels of government and crisscrossed the nonprofit, charitable, community, hospital, mental health and addictions, and social innovation sectors. While her speciality is community-centred strategic planning, her expansive experience (not to mention her curiosity!) makes her a value add to a wide range of projects.
Valery weaves anti-oppression throughout all of her service offerings.
Strategic Planning
Valery’s specialty as a consultant is community-centred strategic planning. She works with organizations of all sizes to develop multi-year strategies that reflect a shared vision for the future.
Consulting Services
Drawing on her almost 20 years of experience as a health and social sector executive, Valery is also available to help you with a range of other organizational and strategic initiatives.
Innoweave Grants
Valery partners with the McConnell Foundation’s Innoweave program which accepts applications for grant funding to support organizations to work with her on several types of strategic initiatives.
Community-Centred Strategic Planning
Community-centred Strategic Planning is Valery’s specialty.
She works with organizations of all sizes to engage their boards, staff, clients, partners, and other community members in the development of multi-year strategies that reflect a shared vision for the future.
This approach:
- Centres the wisdom of the people living with the problem your health and social sector organization exists to solve.
- Builds connection and buy-in among both your board members, and those who will be on the frontlines of strategy implementation.
- Ensures justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion are not just words that appear in your final plan. They are principles we work together to build into your strategy journey from the start.
Consulting Services
As an experienced health and social sector executive Valery offers a number of consulting services. She would love to connect to talk about how she might help you to:
- Plan and / or deliver your next strategic initiative.
- Carry out your annual planning / priority setting.
- Clarify your impact with a theory of change.
- Co-create your next collective impact project.
- Engage your community (with particular expertise in engaging communities of colour, and people with lived experience of mental illness and addiction.)
- Ignite your impact storytelling or advocacy campaign.
- Develop or update your policy documents.
- Re-invigorate your organizational governance.
- Reset your organizational structure.
- Renew your organizational culture.
Innoweave Grants
As an affiliated Innoweave coach, Valery supports people and organizations with social innovation tools to help them co-create, learn, adapt, and scale more effective solutions to entrenched social problems.
Innoweave has a granting program to help not-for-profits and charities access this coaching at little to no cost.
Watch this Introduction to Innoweave webinar to learn more about the program and the approaches Innoweave supports. Then, reach out if you have a project you want to work with Valery on and she’ll collaborate with you to develop your proposal to Innoweave!