Designing a Métis Judicial Body from the Ground Up
System Design
Developmental Evaluation · Organizational Design ·
M Poitras Ethics, Law and Design for Métis Nation, Saskatchewan
Canada's courts were not built on Indigenous values, traditions, or languages. After resolutions, self-government agreements, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples established both the right and the necessity, the Métis Nation, Saskatchewan set out to design such a body from scratch, with the full weight of community and future generations' expectations behind it.
Changing the Conversation around Diabetes
System Change
Developmental Evaluation
Diabetes Canada’s Change the Conversation (CTC), an initiative that seeks to transform how Canadians communicate and act on diabetes by mobilizing knowledge and innovative programs that shift language, values, and beliefs, so people with diabetes feel more seen, valued, and supported. The idea is ambitious, and the path is being flagged as we travel it.
Regenerative Business Through Acquisition Finds Its Form
System Innovation
Thought Partnership · Developmental Evaluation · Values-Based Organizational Design
Regenerative Capital Group
By bringing together entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) and regenerative development, Regenerative Capital Group (RCG) aims to transition values-aligned leaders into these businesses—and support them to steward and evolve them as living systems, contributing to the long-term health of the communities and ecosystems they are embedded within.
A Search Process as Values in Action
HR Process Innovation
Values-Based Organizational Design · Developmental Evaluation Approach
In collaboration with Work.Shouldn't.Suck. for Opera Philadelphia
When Opera Philadelphia's General Director David Devan invited Tim Cynova and I to reimagine their executive search process, the ask was specific and ambitious: deconstruct how hiring is typically done and reimagine it from the ground up, centering equity, inclusion, and candidate care.

