Organization Development

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Organization Development

All cultural shifts start with a deep dive that stirs things up. When your change initiatives don’t have lasting (or any) effect, it may be a sign that it’s time to go deeper.

What’s really happening that you may not be seeing?
Why won’t the organizational values ring true?
What truths need to be challenged?
What beliefs lurk below the surface?
How will change in one area affect all the others?

Clarity, Vision, and a Process for Change

360° Partnership and Process

The very first tenet of Cognascent Change is that we act as guide, not guru. While we bring passion, expertise, insight, and talent to the table, we depend on your deeper understanding, commitment and drive for change. We value equity and fairness and the worth of every individual, openness to lifelong learning, and enduring respect for the human side of your enterprise. We will always honour and dedicate time to build the trusting relations that enable us to do sustainable change work in partnership with our clients. Our goal is guiding you, through elevated thinking, to your destination and beyond.

Transforming Teams

In partnership, we can help you discover habits, patterns, latent beliefs and hidden opportunities within your organization, and reveal how these may be barriers to or enablers of the change that will realize your vision. We help teams adopt self-directed transformation, to bridge short-term results and long-term team success. We also use assessment and analysis tools to give teams clear and common language for discussing strengths, barriers, potential and plans.

Transforming Cultures

With a full-systems view of organizational and cultural change, your Cognascent collaborators want to see your vision and ambition realized across your organization. We create the possibility for honest conversations, courageous discovery and ongoing development. We’ll equip you to align stakeholders, build a foundation of values-in-use, recreate processes and practices, and prepare you to succeed through whatever change is needed to deliver on the vision.

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.

Let’s talk and see how we can help.

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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.