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

  • Gwaandak Theatre Society
  • Over the past 5 years, Patti has served as a consultant, facilitator, mentor, and friend in our shared collaborations. She brings valuable knowledge, innovation, networks, and compassion into her work, and is a true asset to work with in our communities in the North.

    Alyssa Carpenter, Leading Founder, Western Arctic Youth Collective

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“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”

- Alan Turing