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Consulting and Coaching

consulting & coaching

We support community changemakers in achieving greater impact.

The Tamarack Advantage

We draw upon our 20 years of experience leading community change and advancing practice to support municipalities, funders, non-profits, and community leaders through on-demand coaching and consulting, in-person and digital training, and by offering resources, tools, and the latest thinking to guide change efforts.

Investing in Tamarack Institute Consulting Services has the following benefits:

CO-DESIGNED APPROACH

All consulting services are customized and co-designed ensuring outcomes that meet needs.

CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

We are respected international thought leaders who regularly research, test and publish new content.

EXPERIENCE IN PRACTICE

We bring practical experience and skill to translate the theory of community change into action.

AN ENGAGED NETWORK

Tamarack leverages our global network of over 40,000 community change practitioners to access proven approaches to address a range of complex issues in creative and innovative ways.

INVESTING IN BUILDING CAPACITY

As a registered charity, Tamarack reinvests the funds generated by clients and learners into providing content and tools on an open-source platform to build capacity in the field, share resources, and support each other to achieve and accelerate impact. 

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liz weaver

Collective Leadership

Liz Weaver is Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute where she leads our Collective Leadership practice area. Liz is well-known for her thought leadership and is the author of several popular and academic papers. 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.

Specializes in:

  • Collective Impact
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Evaluating Impact
  • Community Innovation

Liz’s Office Hours
Wednesdays 2:00-4:00 p.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Liz

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danya pastuszek

Measurement Strategy and Strategic Planning

Danya Pastuszek is Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute. 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.

Specializes in:

  • Collective impact and backbone operations
  • Measurement strategy and continuous improvement
  • Strategic planning and budgeting 

Danya's Office Hours
Tuesdays 2:00–4:00 p.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Danya

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sylvia cheuy

Collaboration

Sylvia is a Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute’s Collaboration 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.

Specializes in:

  • Collaboration
  • Collective Impact
  • Community Engagement
  • Community Innovation

Sylvia's Office Hours
Tuesdays 2:00–4:00 p.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Sylvia

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lisa attygalle

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.

Specializes in:

  • Community Engagement
  • Community Innovation
  • Collective Impact

Lisa's Office Hours
Thursdays 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Lisa 

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myriam bérubé

(Consultations aussi disponibles en français.)

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.

Specializes in:

  • Participatory Grantmaking
  • Collective Impact
  • Community Innovation

Myriam's Office Hours
Wednesdays 1:30–2:30 p.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Myriam

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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.

Specializes in:

  • Community Innovation
  • Co-Design
  • Community Engagement

Sonja's Office Hours
Wednesdays 9:00–11:00 a.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Sonja

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Asset-based Community Development 

Heather is the consulting Director of Asset-based Community Development and Belonging at Tamarack Institute. She has a passion for the power of people and believes that people and communities are the solutions to local problems. She believes that in building a sense of community belonging people feel connected to their community, and their place within it and get involved in decision-making. She also believes that municipalities need to shift the way they show up in community from doing “for” to supporting communities to do themselves.  

Specializes in:

  • Asset-based Community Development (ABCD)
  • Asset Mapping
  • Community Development
  • Building Community Plans

Heather's Office Hours
Mondays 2:00 p.m.– 4:00 p.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Heather

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Strategic Planning and Communications

Duncan is an Associate Director at Tamarack's Learning Centre. Duncan leads the development and management of e-learning courses, provides both leadership and support for consulting contracts, and contributes to the creation of learning resources.

Specializes in:

  • Community Engagement and Consensus Building
  • Collective Impact and Backbone Operations
  • Learning and Development
  • Digital and Measurement Strategy

Duncan's Office Hours
Tuesdays 2:00–4:00 p.m. EST
15-minute free consultations

Book a 15-minute session with Duncan

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