Ontario Facilitator

No. Positive Impact is based in Victoria, BC, and our facilitators travel to Ontario for in-person work. We’d rather say that plainly than imply a Toronto office we don’t have. What travels well is the facilitation craft itself, and what doesn’t travel is knowledge of your organization, which is exactly why our sessions are built to draw that out of the room rather than import it.

If your team sits in one city, go to that city’s page. We have a Toronto facilitator page and an Ottawa facilitator page, and each goes into more detail on the sectors and rhythms of that market. This page is for organizations whose footprint is the province: multi-site employers, provincial associations, broader public sector bodies, and any group that pulls people in from several regions at once.

Usually by deciding honestly what has to be in person and what doesn’t. A typical shape is an in-person anchor day for the group that most needs to be in a room together, then structured virtual sessions that bring the wider set of regions in without asking forty people to fly. We pin one clock in every document, because the northwest of the province runs on Central Time. And we size the small-group work so remote participants aren’t outnumbered in every breakout, which is the failure mode that quietly makes people stop contributing.

Yes, and we’re straight about the trade-offs. Sudbury, North Bay, Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie are all workable in person, and we plan them as their own visit rather than a side trip from Toronto. For Thunder Bay, Kenora and Fort Frances, hybrid or fully virtual is often the better use of your budget, and we’ll say so rather than quietly billing the flights. When an in-person day in the northwest genuinely matters, we build the travel into the scope up front.

Travel is quoted as a separate line item, so you can see exactly what it adds. Getting a facilitator from the west coast to southern Ontario is a full travel day in each direction. The bigger cost in Ontario is usually yours rather than ours: bringing your own people in from several regions often costs more than the facilitation does, which is why we ask early whether the in-person day is earning that spend. Virtual sessions carry no travel cost at all.

Leadership teams, boards, and departments across private, public, and non-profit organizations. In Ontario that tends to mean financial and professional services, technology, advanced manufacturing, mining and resources, health networks, post-secondary institutions, municipalities, provincial and federal bodies, and associations with a province-wide membership. Group size ranges from an executive team of eight to a leadership summit of sixty, and the design shifts considerably between those two.

Six to eight weeks is comfortable for an in-person session, and more if you’re coordinating travel for people from several regions. That window covers a proper discovery call, a session design we build around your goals rather than a template, and any pre-work such as an anonymous survey or interviews. Virtual sessions can move faster. If your timeline is tighter than that, tell us and we’ll be honest about whether the preparation can still be done well.

A written summary with the decisions made, the commitments people made out loud, and who owns what by when. Most sessions also produce something structural, such as a plan on a page, a set of priorities the group agreed to, or shared language for how the team communicates. The point is traction on Monday morning rather than a good feeling that fades by Wednesday. We can stay involved afterward if you want support keeping it alive.