Calgary Facilitator
An experienced, neutral facilitator for your Calgary leadership team, board or department.
We create sessions that are greater than the sum of their parts, guided by award-winning facilitators.
- 110,000+people facilitated globally
- Award-winningfacilitators
- Calgary and areain person, virtual or hybrid
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
Calgary
Bringing in a facilitator your Calgary team will actually listen to
Hiring a facilitator is really hiring a person, and in a senior Calgary room the person matters more than the method. You are asking someone to hold the process while your most experienced people argue about something that matters, and to be trusted by all of them at once. That’s the job, and it’s the thing worth assessing before you sign anything.
Our facilitators travel to Calgary regularly. We won’t tell you we have an office on 7th Avenue, because we don’t. If what you’re weighing up is the service rather than the person, our Calgary facilitation page sets out how sessions are designed and what they produce.
What you get
What you’re actually hiring
Six things a good external facilitator brings that nobody inside the organization can.
Your senior people get to participate
A facilitator who owns the process means your most senior person gets to be a participant for once, rather than chairing and contributing at the same time and doing neither well.
Someone watching the room
Someone in the room whose only job is to notice who has not spoken, who has quietly disengaged, and which disagreement everyone is politely avoiding. Nobody who also has a stake in the outcome can do that reliably.
Genuine neutrality
A person with no history in your organization, no stake in which side wins, and no reason to protect anyone’s position. In Calgary that’s rarer than it sounds, and it’s most of what you’re paying for.
Experience holding hard rooms
Someone who has held a room while a genuinely difficult conversation happened, and knows the difference between a group that needs pushing and a group that needs a break.
An honest read on fit
A facilitator willing to tell you before the session that what you’ve described isn’t a facilitation problem. We’d rather lose the booking than run a day we don’t believe in.
One lead, start to finish
The same lead facilitator from the first call through to the follow-up, so nobody has to re-explain the situation to a new face halfway through.
Every engagement we run is shaped around your team. Share what you’re working on and we’ll build the right session around it.
Share what you’re working onHow We Facilitate
Sessions that turn conversation into a plan your team can actually run with
There’s no prepared script. We guide the process, your team brings the expertise, and together we build toward a plan your people helped shape and will actually use.
The facilitator guides the process and never the content. Your team knows the business; we know how to run the conversation. Facilitator-guided, participant-led, which is a working method rather than a slogan.
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Why work with us
Three ways teams here engage a facilitator
Every engagement is customizable, but most start in one of these shapes.
Quarterly or monthly
Ongoing Partnership
A facilitator who gets to know your team over time, so trust deepens and development compounds instead of starting fresh each session. Mostly virtual, anchored by one or two in-person days a year.
Best for: making development a habit rather than a one-off.
Ask about a partnershipMulti-day, immersive
Multi-Day Offsite
Extended session for strategic planning, leadership development or a culture shift. When we’re flying east anyway, two days costs far less per day than one.
Best for: bigger decisions that need room to breathe.
Talk about an offsiteHalf-day to full-day
Single Workshop
A focused session built around one goal, whether that’s a decision, a kickoff, or a skill like communications or building trust and psychological safety.
Best for: teams that know exactly what they need to work through.
Ask about a workshop
How we facilitate
A clear path from first call to follow-through
Each engagement follows a similar path, and includes the same care, from your first call to the work that carries on after we fly home.
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Discovery
A call with the facilitator who will actually run your session, not a salesperson.
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Design
Customized session design, built around your team, not a template.
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Facilitation
An experienced facilitator in the room or online, and in the room the day before.
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Materials
Materials and tools your team can keep using afterward.
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Follow-up
A summary with commitments and clear next steps.
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Support
Optional support to help momentum carry past the session.
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.
65%
of senior managers say that meetings keep them from completing their own work.
58%
of Americans would rather go to a doctor’s appointment than attend a work meeting.
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
Decisions the whole room actually gets behind, instead of quiet disagreement that surfaces later in the parking lot.
Real buy-in
Because people helped shape the outcome, they leave genuinely invested in it, not just told what was decided.
Stronger team connection
The kind of trust that lets a senior group disagree in front of each other, which is difficult to build and easy for the wrong facilitator to break.
Action that sticks
Clear commitments and ownership that carry into Monday morning, not just good intentions on the day.
Fresh thinking and better ideas
Space for your team’s best thinking to surface, including ideas that might never have come up otherwise.
A record everyone can point at
A written summary of what was decided, who owns it, and by when. Useful when half the group has to brief a site that wasn’t in the room.
Client stories
Real teams, real outcomes
These aren’t all Calgary engagements, and we won’t pretend otherwise. They’re the kinds of sessions we run and the outcomes teams point to afterward.
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.
– Participant
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.
Before you book
Worth reading first
Six pieces that answer the questions most teams have before a first session.
- The service How our Calgary sessions are designed and what they produce Read the guide
- Wider footprint Facilitation across Alberta Read the guide
- Choosing well The 13 definitive skills of a good facilitator Read the guide
- The role What is a facilitator’s role Read the guide
- Honest advice When not to hire a facilitator, and what to do instead Read the guide
- The case 15 vital reasons to hire a facilitator Read the guide
Frequently Asked Questions
Hiring a facilitator in Calgary
Who would actually facilitate our session?
One named lead facilitator, and you meet them before you commit to anything. They run your discovery call, design the session, deliver it and stay with you through the follow-up. You will not be sold by one person and facilitated by another, which is a common enough experience that it’s worth stating plainly. Our core team is on this page and we’ll tell you which of them fits your situation and why.
Are your facilitators based in Calgary?
No. Positive Impact is based in Victoria, BC, and our facilitators travel to Calgary regularly. It’s a short flight, so the travel line stays modest. Arriving from outside is a large part of the value here, and the section above explains why: in a business community this interconnected, a facilitator with no prior relationship to anyone in the room is harder to find locally than people expect.
Why hire an external facilitator instead of having someone senior chair it?
Because nobody can run the process and participate in it at the same time without one of the two suffering. When a senior person chairs, their own view carries extra weight whether they intend it or not, and the quieter opinions stay quiet. Bringing someone in means your most experienced people get to be participants for once, which is usually where the useful disagreement finally surfaces.
What experience do your facilitators have?
Our founder is an ICF ACTP certified coach with more than a decade in sales and marketing at Coca-Cola before founding Positive Impact, and studied High Impact Leadership at the University of Cambridge. Across the team we’ve delivered sessions to well over a hundred thousand people, in corporate, public sector and non-profit rooms. What matters more for your decision is fit, which is why you speak to the actual facilitator before booking.
Can we meet the facilitator before we commit?
Yes, and we’d rather you did. The discovery call is with the person who would run your session, not a salesperson, and there’s no obligation attached to it. It’s also where we’d tell you if we think facilitation isn’t the right answer for what you’ve described. Losing a booking on that call costs us less than running a day we don’t believe in.
What if we’ve had a bad experience with a facilitator before?
Say so on the first call, in detail. It’s genuinely useful information, and it usually points at something specific: a facilitator who pushed their own content, a day with no decisions at the end, or an exercise that felt like it was done to the group rather than with them. Knowing which one it was changes how we design your session, and it changes what we promise you.
How does travel affect what a session costs?
Travel is quoted as a separate line item, so you can see exactly what it adds. Calgary is a short direct flight from the west coast, which makes it one of the cheaper in-person markets we work in. If you have something in Edmonton in the same week, a second session costs far less than a second trip.
What happens after the session?
You get a written summary with the decisions made, the commitments people made out loud, and who owns what by when. The same lead facilitator handles that, so nothing is lost in a handover. We can stay involved afterward if you want support keeping the momentum, and we’ll say if we think you don’t need us for that part.
Let’s talk about your team
Tell us what you’re working through and we’ll put you on a call with the facilitator who would run it, so you can judge the fit before committing to anything. We’ll tell you honestly whether facilitation is the right tool and who would run it and what it would look like.
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