Professional Development Facilitators
for Teams Across North America
We help organizations build connection, resilience, and real alignment through engaging facilitation and professional development.
Our award-winning facilitators have worked with over 110,000 people. We design sessions that leave teams with shared clarity, specific commitments, and the momentum to follow through.
Trusted by teams across the public, private and non-profit sectors
What we do
The areas we're called in for most
This is a snapshot of our work. If you don't see your challenge, just ask.
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Strategic Planning
A living roadmap your team actually implements, co-created from your team's own knowledge and experience.
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Communication Training & COMS
Our proprietary communication-styles assessment. Teams leave with a shared language, fewer misunderstandings, and strategies they can use right away.
Team Development & Team Building
Building the trust, psychological safety and communication high-performing teams rely on, through retreats, offsites and tailored sessions.
Culture & Engagement
Turning shared purpose into commitments teams live by, from vision, mission and values work to culture-shift and change management.
Leadership Development & Executive Coaching
Practical development for managers and executives, plus one-to-one coaching that helps leaders grow with clarity and confidence.
Corporate Training
Tailored, participant-led training built to leave your people with tools they'll still be using months later.
Our client engagements are customized. Tell us what your team is working toward and we'll shape the right content, format and delivery.
Tell us what you're working towards →How We Facilitate
Facilitation that moves teams from conversation to action
We don't dictate solutions. We're facilitator-guided, but participant-led. We create the environment where your team's expertise meets fresh insight and knowledge, so your team leaves with an action plan you own and will be able to put into practice.
Every engagement is built around your goals, your sector, and your people. It's the difference between a session that lands well in the room and one your team is still using on Monday morning.
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Why Positive Impact?
The quality of human connection determines the quality of everything an organization creates.
That belief sits at the centre of every session we design and every client relationship we build. We don't just run programs. We create the conditions for your teams to do their best thinking together.
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Your expertise, plus ours
Your people bring the nuanced understanding about how your organization actually works. The relationships, the challenges and the opportunities. We bring deep expertise in facilitation, training and professional development. The best sessions happen where the two combine.
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Outputs you can act on
Every session ends with specific commitments, clear ownership, and a follow-up structure, so you leave with traction for Monday morning.
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Purpose-driven, like you
We work best with organizations that care about more than just the next quarter: folks building something good for their people and their community.
Why facilitation?
How a team works together shapes everything it creates.
$100 Million
is the yearly cost for big companies for staff being in pointless meetings.
Bloomberg, 2022
65%
of senior managers say that meetings keep them from completing their own work.
Harvard Business Review, 2017
58%
of Americans would rather go to a doctor's appointment than attend a work meeting.
Deputy, 2022
75%
of decision-makers feel that collaboration needs to be improved in their companies.
Forrester Research, 2021
Outcomes
What your team walks away with
Better decisions, made together
Clearer, smarter decisions your whole team stands behind, with no quiet second-guessing afterward.
Real buy-in
People leave invested in the outcome because they helped shape it, not just informed of it.
Stronger team connection
Co-creating the trust and psychological safety that high-performing teams rely on.
Action that sticks
Specific commitments and clear ownership, so the plan gets used on Monday morning.
Fresh thinking and better ideas
The conditions that surface your team's best ideas, and perspectives that would not have come out otherwise.
What our clients say
It was a pleasure to work with Will and Positive Impact. I was both inspired and empowered to co-deliver a meaningful offsite. Their positive incite into leadership performance and emotional resilience gave me clear direction and tactical tools I could apply to my workplace right away. I thoroughly look forward to working with Will again.
- Haley Daniels
Olympian and Motivational Speaker
Thanks for your incredible support, kindness, professionalism, and realness.
It was my sincere pleasure and privilege to work with you on our event.
You are a unique and special human, and I’m grateful that our paths crossed on this project, and look forward to the next time.
- Shauna Grinke, MBA, CPHR
Vice President - People and CultureThe workshop was an incredibly valuable experience for our team — the facilitator created an open, engaging environment that encouraged honest discussion and collaboration. The content was thoughtfully tailored to our team’s specific goals, making the session both relevant and actionable. We’re excited to continue partnering with Positive Impact to build on the great momentum sparked in this session.
- Shannon Charbonneau
Account Director
Treetop Marketing and Promotion Inc.
I’m leaving our session with a sense of optimism that I haven’t had in a while. It was time extremely well spent! I am sure that we all feel much closer and more connected.
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MDA Geointelligence Engineering Leadership SummitThe environment that was created made me feel comfortable to participate and collaborate with my colleagues. It was very well organized. I liked the outcome of the brainstorm sessions and warmup activities.
- ParticipantThe level of engagement and pace of the training was excellent. Like the fact that this workshop was trainer-guided, but participants lead!
- ParticipantFantastic facilitating most importantly Will understood when to let us talk and when to corral us back on track. Excellent value this afternoon.
- Engagement Workshop Participant
100% Satisfaction Guarantee.
We stand behind the quality of our work with complete confidence. If you're not fully satisfied with the results, we'll make it right.
Your trust matters more to us, and our guarantee acknowledges our belief that you deserve to feel confident in every investment you make with us. That's a standard we hold ourselves to, every time.
It was a pleasure to work with Will and Positive Impact. I was both inspired and empowered to co-deliver a meaningful offsite. Their positive insight into leadership performance and emotional resilience gave me clear direction and tactical tools I could apply to my workplace right away. I thoroughly look forward to working with Will again.
Olympian and Motivational Speaker
Ready to talk about your team?
Get in Touch →Featured Workshops
COMS Communication Styles
A focused workshop on COMS, our very own communication styles assessment that is research-backed and expertly facilitated. Your team gains a shared vocabulary for how each person works, so differences become something you can use.
Through eight strategically designed questions, COMS surfaces how each person communicates, how their style shifts under pressure, and what happens when different styles combine. We map the results onto a simple, visual grid your whole team can read at a glance.
The result is stronger team dynamics, less friction, and communication that holds up across the organization. Your people leave understanding their own style, appreciating the others, and knowing how to adapt to get the best from every conversation.
Learn more →Strategic Planning
This is your chance to engage your team in the planning and execution of the organization, and to align on the initiatives and actions that actually get executed.
As strategic planning facilitators, we guide the process and create the environment for open dialogue, critical thinking and collaborative decision-making. Your group co-creates the strategy from its own knowledge, experience and diversity.
Strategic planning is more than a single session. We help you navigate the plan through the months and years that follow, offering an objective lens and insight into how other organizations turn strategy into action.
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5 Dysfunctions of a Team
This workshop is about making a good team optimal. Built on Patrick Lencioni's widely used framework and delivered through an appreciative-inquiry lens that builds on what already works.
Together we explore the five behaviours that make or break teams: trust, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability and results. Through honest reflection, guided discussion and practical exercises, your team looks at where it is strong and where it gets stuck.
Your people leave with a shared language for how they work together, a clearer sense of how they hold one another accountable, and a practical path forward they have built themselves.
Learn more →Inside our sessions
See what it's like to work with us
A short look at how a Positive Impact session actually feels, and what your team can expect in the room.
Our Team
Great content is only made better by great facilitators
Will Chambers
Founder & Facilitator
Award-winning facilitator and Founder of Positive Impact, with sessions delivered to tens of thousands of people. Will focuses on strategy, leadership, team dynamics and communication, turning concepts into clear, committed action.
More about Will →
Lindsay Davis
Coach & Strategist
Award-winning coach and entrepreneurial guide, with experience spanning rural entrepreneurs in Africa to multimillion-dollar companies. Helps leaders focus on what matters most and build the resilience to anticipate challenges and move through them.
More about Lindsay →Michael Lorsch
Facilitator & Learning Consultant
Brings facilitation and learning design from theatre stages to executive boardrooms, including in-house work with lululemon. Blends mindfulness, relationship systems and human-centred design to keep people at the centre of every session.
More about Michael →
Jason Maraschiello
Coach & Facilitator
Certified life and corporate coach, mindfulness and meditation teacher. Uses mindfulness and effective communication to help people set manageable goals, find work-life balance and build the support to follow through.
More about Jason →
Beyond the core team, we draw on a wider network of facilitators and subject-matter experts, matched to the goals, sector, and people of each engagement.
Where we work
Facilitation across Canada and the USA, in person, virtually or a hybrid of the two
British Columbia
Alberta & Prairies
Ontario
Atlantic Canada
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John's, P.E.I.
United States
Everywhere else
We facilitate virtual and hybrid sessions for distributed teams, so distance is rarely a barrier.
Frequently Asked Questions
Good to know before we talk
What does a facilitation company do?
A facilitation company designs and leads group sessions so a team can think, decide and align more effectively than it would on its own. The facilitator stays neutral and owns the process, while your team brings the knowledge and owns the outcome: strategic planning, retreats, leadership development, communication workshops and change management.
How much does a facilitated session cost?
Cost depends on the format, length, group size, and how much custom design the session needs. A focused half-day workshop is a different investment than a multi-day strategic offsite with pre-session interviews and follow-up. We'll give you a clear, honest quote once we understand what you're trying to accomplish. The best next step is a short conversation about your goals.
Do you facilitate remotely or only in person?
Both. We run in-person sessions across Canada and facilitate virtual and hybrid sessions for distributed teams. Hybrid in particular takes careful design to keep remote participants as engaged as the people in the room. That's something we build in from the start.
What's the difference between facilitation and training or consulting?
A trainer transfers knowledge to your team. A consultant diagnoses a problem and hands you recommendations. A facilitator does neither. We guide a process that draws out the knowledge already in your team and helps the group reach its own decisions. You hire us when your people have the expertise but need a neutral structure to align and move forward together.
Where is Positive Impact based, and what areas do you serve?
We're based in Victoria, BC, and facilitate across Canada: British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, the Prairies and Atlantic Canada. Sessions run in person and virtually, so distance is rarely a barrier.
How do we get started?
Reach out for a no-pressure conversation. We'll talk through what you're trying to accomplish, tell you honestly whether facilitation is the right fit, and recommend a format that suits your team: sometimes a workshop, sometimes a retreat, and sometimes something else entirely.
Let's get started!
Discover how Positive Impact curates sessions that allow you and your organization to thrive.
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