Practice Area: Collaborative Leadership
Liz Weaver is the Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute where she is leading the Tamarack Learning Centre. Liz is well-known for her thought leadership on Collaborative Leadership and Collective Impact and is the author of several popular and academic papers on those topics. She is a co-catalyst partner with the Collective Impact Forum and collaborates with Inspiring Communities New Zealand and Collaborating for Impact, Australia. Liz is passionate about the power and potential of communities getting to impact on complex issues.
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Liz's Office Hours
Wednesdays 2:00–4:00 p.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Measurement Strategy and Strategic Planning
Danya Pastuszek is the Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute and the Director of Vibrant Communities. She spent ten years as a local intermediary, supporting school-based, neighborhood-based, and regional outcomes-focused partnerships, in both operational leadership and partnership facilitation roles. She has also worked as a service provider with refugees and with youth and adults impacted by the criminal justice system. In her coaching and facilitation, Danya draws from experience with communities. She joins together racial equity, continuous improvement, adaptive leadership, liberatory design, and social psychology principles.
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Danya's Office Hours
Tuesdays 2:00–4:00 p.m. EST– 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Collective Impact
Sylvia is a Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute’s Collective Impact practice area. She is passionate about community change and what becomes possible when residents and various sector leaders share an aspirational vision for their future. Sylvia believes that when the assets of residents and community are recognized and connected they become powerful drivers of community change.
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Sylvia's Office Hours
Tuesdays 2:00–4:00 p.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Community Engagement
In her role at Tamarack, Lisa works with cities, organizations and coalitions to improve the way they engage with their communities. Over the last seven years her work has focused on creating authentic engagement strategies and building the culture for engagement, integrated communications planning, and the use of technology and creativity for engagement. Lisa constantly advocates for simplicity in infrastructure, frameworks and design and loves applying the principles of marketing, advertising, loyalty, and user experience to community initiatives.
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Lisa's Office Hours
Thursdays 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
Focus Area: Québec and French-speaking communities
Myriam is the Consulting Director for Quebec at the Tamarack Institute. She’s passionate about community innovation and development and brings her understanding of the diversity of experiences made in Quebec into Tamarack’s five interconnected areas of practices (collective impact, community engagement, collaborative leadership, community innovation and evaluating impact) leading to community change. She believes that we can accelerate our effectiveness by learning from one another, thus increasing our social impact and even inspiring others beyond our borders.
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Consultations aussi disponibles en français.
Myriam's Office Hours
Wednesdays 1:30–2:30 p.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Evaluation and Strategic Learning
Jean-Marie Chapeau is the Consulting Director Evaluating impact at the Tamarack Institute. Deeply convinced that local and collaborative approaches are an essential lever in solving complex social issues, Jean-Marie has been involved in community development and social change for 25 years. Jean-Marie mobilizes his experience, passion and curiosity to promote evaluation as a tool for empowerment in communities and to accompany individuals and groups in their learning processes. He is constantly seeking to build bridges between change-makers involved in inventing local solutions to poverty and exclusion.
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Consultations aussi disponibles en français.
Jean-Marie's Office Hours
Thursdays 3:00–4:30 p.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
Practice Area: Community Innovation
Sonja Miokovic is the Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute’s Community Innovation Area. She is a dynamic educator, social scientist, and innovator with over 16 years of experience in the sector. Having lived, worked, and played in over 80 countries, she has a broad spectrum of international experience that cuts across the public, private and civil society sectors. Sonja is a long-standing advocate for community-led innovation and development. Known for bringing larger-than-life initiatives into being, Sonja thrives on helping communities connect the dots in innovative ways to tackle persistent problems.
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Sonja's Office Hours
Wednesdays 9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
Focus Area: Behaviour Change & Design for Social Change
Raïsa is Associate Director of Community Innovation Fund-Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) and a Consulting Director at Tamarack Institute's Learning Center with a focus on Community Innovation & Engagement.
She is a human-centered designer, researcher, facilitator and socially engaged artist with experience implementing and co-creating participatory systems strengthening programs in over 20 countries in a variety of sectors and roles supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. In her work, she brings a behavioral sciences+design lens to support sustainable innovations through experimentation based on user needs. Her previous roles have often straddled participatory research and co-creation, capacity building of leaders in communities and governments, impact measurement, storytelling, partnership building, and knowledge mobilization.
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Consultations aussi disponibles en français.
Raïsa's Office Hours
Wednesdays 9:30 a.m.–11 a.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
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Practice Area: Digital Sales, Engagement & Learning
Jeff Doner leads the Marketing and Communications practice at Tamarack as Director, Digital Sales, Engagement & Learning. Through transformative strategy development, thought leadership, and operational optimization, Jeff’s work enables the Tamarack community to advance digital intelligence and impact. As a Professor with the School of Communications, Media, Arts, and Design at Centennial College, Jeff develops and delivers curriculums focussed on digital enablement through transformative capability building. He provides workshops, training, and consulting services to a range of community collaboratives.
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Jeff's Office Hours
Fridays 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EST – 15-minute free consultations
