Dialogue
on Purpose
Providing navigation and leadership through opportunities, challenges, goals, and difficult conversations.
Dialogue on purpose… both intentionally and with a focus… on purpose.
As a practitioner, I always start from a place of problem-solving with a view to understanding the ultimate purpose: where are we trying to go, why, what does success look like and why, where are the barriers, is it measurable, etc.
This strategic forethought ensures both the client and the project have a clear vision and relevant options to get there.
- Patti Balsillie, Chief Problem Solver, BA, ICD.D
Patti Balsillie is a Canadian consultant and strategic advisor with a significant focus on strategy, tourism development, organizational governance, and working through conflict.
Areas of Practice
Working together to achieve improved outcomes.
We’ll find middle ground, design compromise, and devise options to help you resolve complex issues. Patti has served as a mediator in many situations of conflict, calming animosity and facilitating problem solving through her diverse experience and formal training.
Evaluating policies and practices for future success
Whether leading strategic planning or supporting the development and implementation of governance, you’ll get ultimate objectives that are clear, achievable, actionable, relatable, and measurable.
Building consensus and community involvement
Leverage Patti’s International Association for Public Participation (IAP2.org) training, and 25 years of practice and formal education, and develop purpose-built approaches for every project, ensuring clarity of the why, how, what and for whom.
Work with Patti
When you work with Patti you will be:
Accessing a renowned problem solver and leader
Leveraging the experiences of a twenty-five (25) year career in diverse sectors across the north and Canada
Connecting to successful strategies and lessons in tourism, government, community, business and the nonprofit sector
Benefiting from formal education in all areas of speciality including strategy, governance, tourism, organizational development, public engagement and conflict resolution/mediation
Past Clients
“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
- Alan Turing