Poor meeting design is crushing souls, wasting time, and delaying progress.

Are you ready to learn how to facilitate LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?

Developing leadership that is meaningful and sustainable is not an event, it’s a journey.

Ready to build the road to real results?

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Executive coaching is collaborative and purpose-driven.

Looking for a development partner as you forge your path and unleash potential?

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Credible data and constructive analysis need the backdrop of your current reality.

Want to move beyond measures to meaningful results?

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Groups need a space that enables awareness, alignment, and action.

Looking to elevate the collective thinking in the room?

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Sound Familiar?

Your awesome one-day seminar didn’t yield the super-productive team dynamics you envisioned.

Your leadership isn’t having a meaningful impact on others and you don’t know why.

You hear employees talk about a toxic work culture but you don’t know where to start.

How We Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

Organization Development

We help organizations pierce the inconvenient truths that may be blocking potential at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

Organization Development

We help organizations pierce the inconvenient truths that may be blocking potential at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

Assessments

Combine the quantitative measure with the qualitative view for meaningful insights that can enable breakthrough results.

Assessments

Combine the quantitative measure with the qualitative view for meaningful insights that can enable breakthrough results.

Leadership Coaching

Discover habits, patterns, latent beliefs, and hidden opportunities within yourself or your team to enable change that will realize your vision.

Leadership Coaching

Discover habits, patterns, latent beliefs, and hidden opportunities within yourself or your team to enable change that will realize your vision.

Leader Development

We partner with you to build a powerful system for life-long learning and growth in all aspects of leadership.

Leader Development

We partner with you to build a powerful system for life-long learning and growth in all aspects of leadership.

Facilitation

We enable awareness, nurture conversation, and work toward actions for groups and teams using research-backed tools and methodologies.

Facilitation

We enable awareness, nurture conversation, and work toward actions for groups and teams using research-backed tools and methodologies.

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Training

Get certified in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method to lead better meetings and workshops.

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Training

Get certified in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methods and Materials to connect people, nurture insights, and enable meaningful outcomes.

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Cognascent’s
Vision

Cognascent, which stands for elevated thinking, offers an innovative approach to leadership and organization development. As a boutique firm, our service is highly responsive and customized, and further amplified by a constellation of professionals who are experienced and qualified experts in the fields of leadership, learning and development, organization development, professional development, and professional coaching.

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We Can Help.

At Cognascent, we do it differently!

Expertise

We partner with experienced, knowledgeable, and qualified professionals to deliver innovative tools and concepts to meet our clients’ specific needs.

Responsiveness

We commit ourselves to our clients’ journey and limit our exposure so that you can receive prompt and personal attention.

Cost

We keep direct control of our costs and avoid overhead of larger operations. Your investment goes directly toward engagement.

Our Promise

We will work with you to identify the real opportunity.

We will deliver a solution that meets your specific needs.

We will help build your internal capability.

Some of our happy clients

Vice-President, Strategy and Future Portfolio, AstraZeneca Canada

I engaged Mia to help with a leadership development interaction with my full department and was completely thrilled with the result. Her depth of expertise was impressive and the insights she delivered on how the team could accelerate their leadership impact was very motivating and inspired changed behaviour. I have recommended Mia to many other colleagues since my team’s experience.

Mia’s style is naturally collaborative and she established trust, presence and integrity very quickly with all members of my team.

Alison Simpson

Deputy Fire Chief, Toronto Pearson Fire and Emergency Services

As a result of our time together, I have seen improved performance and job satisfaction in my team members, a greater self-confidence in my own ability to lead, and an increased positive perception about my leadership that has led to new opportunities.

Mia always provided me with great insight, allowed me to discover how to implement changes, and kept me committed by regularly tracking progress.

David Hollett

Partner, Dillon Consulting

Mia brings new perspectives and also challenges complacency and status quo thinking directly and effectively.

Always stimulates thinking outside of the normal parameters

Andrew Wilson

CM, MA Sc., P.Eng. Manager, Aviation Analysis and Optimization

It’s a hands-on course that leaves participants feeling empowered both professionally and personally. Mia is a talented facilitator who builds a safe and supportive environment for both enthusiastic group and individual learning.

The Pragmatic Leadership program enables individuals to effectively define one’s leadership skills, provides focus on skills that need further development, but most importantly it provides the foundation and confidence to own and create that development.

Sandra Hantziagelis

Mia was an excellent facilitator engaging the group and pulling out of the team their valuable insights. The workbook produced by Cognascent spurred idea generation and enabled groups to work together to formulate a tangible action plan. It was a pleasure to work with Mia who was able to accommodate our quick timelines and was responsive to all our needs. I look forward to working with Mia again on our leadership development initiatives.

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Mia designed a tailored program based on our needs assessment to create a hands-on workshop with easy to use tools to spark the right discussions and to generate the right outputs.

Senior Manager, Pharmaceutical

Mia creates an environment that allows for honest self-analysis and lively discussion which inspires participants to formulate real, actionable vision. The opportunity to articulate a clear and meaningful direction, and reflect on what it personally means to be a leader has been nothing short of illuminating.

Lead-in to Leadership is a transformational program.

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How We Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

Cognascent’s Vision

Let’s talk and see how we can help.

We Can Help.

At Cognascent, we do it differently!

Our Promise

We will work with you to identify the real opportunity.

We will deliver a solution that meets your specific needs.

We will help build your internal capability.

Some of our happy clients

Cognascent’s
Vision