Collaboration designed for impact

Bring clarity, creativity, and momentum to what matters most.

Where ideas spark, people connect, and solutions blossom and take root.

Since 2011, we’ve partnered with leaders and groups to unlock collective wisdom and create lasting change.

Our Services

COLLABORATIVE TEAM CULTURE

Foster the trust, resilience, and adaptive capacity needed for your team to thrive in times of change.

STRATEGIC PLANNING + ALIGNMENT

Align your team and chart a path for meaningful, lasting impact. Bring clarity and momentum to your vision and strategic initiatives.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING + COACHING

Strengthen the skills, systems, and relationships that help teams work effectively and joyfully together.

CO-CREATION + LAUNCHING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Meaningfully engage diverse perspectives to build ownership and generate solutions that stick.

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Our Projects

  • Community Driven Strategic Planning: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

  • Launching a Strategic Initiative: Halifax Convention Centre

  • Dalhousie University: Sustainability Leadership Certificate

  • Facilitating a National Dialogue for Justice & Safety

  • A diverse group of twelve people gathered around a large round table engaged in a discussion or meeting, with notebooks, drinks, and electronic devices on the table.

    Social Innovation Labs: Economic Immigration Lab

  • Group of people sitting on the floor in a circle during a workshop or discussion in a bright room with large windows, some with notebooks and water bottles.

    Leadership Training: Art of Hosting Wasan Island

  • Strategic Planning: Brigadoon Village

  • Halifax Common

    Public Engagement: Halifax Common Masterplan

  • Training: Engagement + Facilitation

  • Social Innovation: Participatory City Development + Evaluation

  • Public Engagement: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

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What people say

  • "They are a delight to work with! Their genuine curiosity, thoughtfulness, and commitment to understanding your needs and intentionally meeting the moment really stands out. Their facilitation style is generous and people-centred, and they adeptly guided us through concept development, execution planning, and reflective evaluation. They consistently created a warm and approachable environment for our diverse project team, many of whom would not have experienced guided facilitation before. Together we fostered trust and alignment across the team, created a practical action plan, and increased our capacity to tackle challenges along the way."

    - Director of Strategy, Events East Group

  • "Our team has had the privilege of collaborating with Colab on several important initiatives. Their professional approach, combined with a deep understanding of human nature, has brought a level of authenticity that greatly enriches our planning processes. Through thoughtful and skilled facilitation, they have created a productive space for dialogue, enabling us to navigate complex and diverse topics while strengthening our relationships with communities across the province. This partnership has fostered stronger strategic alignment within our team during a time of transition and positioned the AGNS as a respected and inclusive community leader. This has been a true partnership with a lasting impact."

    - Director of Marketing & Visitor Experience, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

  • "Greg and Sophia brought deep skill, warmth, and creativity to our 3-day facilitation workshop for community leaders. They listened closely, responded with care, and co-created a program that left participants feeling more confident, inspired, and equipped to lead. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. We can’t wait to collaborate again."

    - SDG Program Director, Engage NS

  • "COLAB created a safe and transformative space for our team. We left stronger, clearer, and more connected. Their facilitation was attuned, creative, and outside the box, helping us repair ruptures, renew our vision, and step into shared leadership with confidence.”

    - Director of LHA & Associates

  • “Working with Colab is always the most wonderful experience! I have brought them in to support my teams on various occasions and every time it is a huge success. The space they create is supportive and intentional and they really understand how to help people learn and grow together. Whether needed support through reflection, evaluation, change or just kickstarting a new program the Colab team will be able to find a way to unite and mobilize your team to do amazing things. Cannot recommend enough!"

    - Manager of Community Programs YWCA Halifax

  • "I love working with Colab! I have been lucky to have had their support over years and with many different team configurations, meetings, and retreats. Greg is always so flexible, calm, and positive. He picks up the vibe of the group quickly and gets right down to the essence of what we need to get done. He has helped my teams create everyday useful tools for decision making that are going strong years later in our organization. Gentle steering, creative facilitation, and fun along the way! Colab is professional and a joy to work with and always makes my work as a team leader so much lighter."

    - Associate Director, Marine Programs EAC

Foundations

  • Participatory City Foundation UK

  • McConnell Family Foundation

  • Donner Foundation

Social Impact & Nonprofits

  • Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children

  • Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre

  • YWCA

  • Evergreen

  • Heartwood Centre for Community Development

  • Brigadoon Village

  • Canadian Centre for Social Innovation

  • NouLAB

Education & Research

  • Dalhousie University

  • Mount Allison University

  • Canadian Film Centre

  • Acadia University

Private Sector & Industry

  • T4G

  • First Service Brands

  • Halifax Convention Centre

Clients

Government & Public Institutions

  • Government of Canada

  • Province of Nova Scotia

  • Halifax Regional Municipality

  • Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

  • Green Municipal Fund

  • Joint Consortium for School Health

Environmental & Climate

  • Ecology Action Centre

  • Seachoice

  • HalifACT Climate Action Department

  • Outward Bound Canada

  • Atlantic Water Network

  • Nature Trust of New Brunswick

  • Organic Sector of New Brunswick

  • Oceans North

Architecture, Design & Planning

  • Omar Gandhi Architects

  • KPMB Architects

  • Upland Planning & Design

  • Art of City Building Conference

  • Building Equity in Architecture Atlantic

  • Dalhousie Planning & Design School

  • Develop NS (now part of Build NS)

  • and more…

Our Approach

In living systems, no single perspective holds the whole picture. We believe that the wisdom needed to navigate complexity arises when people with lived experience, diverse roles, and relational insight are brought together with care. Our participatory approach is grounded in equity, systems thinking, and co-created design.

Black and white illustration of five people collaborating to hold large celestial symbols, including stars and a crescent moon, with one person on stairs and another on a ladder.

Let’s imagine what’s possible and build it, together.

The complexity of today’s challenges is undeniable, and so is our capacity to rise and meet them. If you’re curious to see what we can do together, we’d love to hear from you.

Bring clarity, creativity, and momentum for what matters most.