Prince Edward Island Facilitator
Facilitated planning, leadership and team sessions for organizations across Prince Edward Island.
We create sessions that are greater than the sum of their parts, guided by award-winning facilitators.
- 110,000+people facilitated globally
- Award-winningfacilitators
- Across the Islandin 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
Prince Edward Island
Facilitation for teams across Prince Edward Island
Positive Impact facilitates strategic planning, leadership development, team retreats, and change management for organizations across Prince Edward Island. Getting a provincial group into one room is easier here than anywhere else in the country. Getting that room to say what it actually thinks is harder, and for the same reason.
We won't tell you we have an office in Charlottetown, because we don't, and on an Island this size that turns out to matter. What we bring is the facilitation craft: someone neutral who owns the process so your people can own the content, and who has no history with anyone at the table.
What we do
The areas we're called in for most
Every engagement starts with your context. If your challenge isn't listed here, ask us anyway.
Strategic Planning
PEI has grown quickly in recent years, and organizations built for a smaller province are feeling it. We facilitate the process that decides what to keep, what to formalize and what to let go, with anonymous input doing the work that a show of hands cannot.
Learn moreCommunication Training & COMS
Our own communication styles framework, giving teams a common language for how they each work. It gives people a way to name friction as a style difference rather than as a personal problem, which matters more where the relationship has to survive the session.
Learn moreTeam Development & Team Building
Retreats, offsites and tailored sessions that build the trust and psychological safety strong teams depend on. Nothing on the Island is more than a short drive, so a genuine offsite costs very little beyond the venue.
Culture & Engagement
From vision and values work to culture shifts, we help turn shared purpose into commitments people live by, including in organizations whose community expectations have changed faster than their mandate.
Leadership Development & Executive Coaching
Hands-on coaching and development for managers and executives, often people leading colleagues they have known socially for years, which is a harder job than the org chart suggests.
Corporate Training
Participant-led training designed around your people, with tools that stay useful long after the session ends. Delivered in Charlottetown, in Summerside, or virtually when a full day is more than the question needs.
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.
Here that means building the session so people can be honest without it costing them a relationship they will still have in ten years. Facilitator-guided, participant-led, and structured so the difficult view reaches the room without a name attached to it.
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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 to understand your context, your goals, and how connected the people in the room already are.
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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 and psychological safety that lets a group disagree properly when everyone at the table will run into each other at the weekend.
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 Prince Edward Island 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.
Ready to talk about your team?
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Where sessions happen, and what usually fits
Nowhere on the Island is more than about two hours from anywhere else, so the usual questions about who travels and how far barely apply. Choose the venue for the effect you want rather than for the logistics.
| Region | Organizations based there | Format that usually fits |
|---|---|---|
| Charlottetown | Provincial departments and agencies, health and post-secondary, professional services, associations, technology, tourism and culture | In person. The capital, so most provincial-scope sessions land here and the meeting space is close together. |
| Summerside and the west | Aerospace and manufacturing, agriculture and food processing, municipal and health teams, defence and aviation | In person, under an hour from Charlottetown, and a useful signal when a session is meant to belong to the whole province rather than the capital. |
| Rural PEI and the coastal communities | Agriculture and potato production, fisheries and aquaculture, tourism operators, municipal bodies, community organizations | In person. Seasonal workloads decide the date here, not the calendar. Planting and harvest are effectively unavailable, and so is the summer for anyone in tourism. |
| Somewhere quiet, out of town | Inns and small venues within thirty minutes of either city | Multi-day, and unusually affordable here. Worth choosing when the conversation is one people would rather not have in a building where colleagues walk past. |
| Fully virtual | Any of the above sessions, delivered on screen | Worth considering for the more sensitive conversations, since people are sometimes more candid from their own office than in a room where they can see everyone's reaction. |
A local detail that matters
In a province this size, anonymity is a design problem
Prince Edward Island has roughly 180,000 people. In a room of twelve senior Islanders, it is entirely ordinary for several to have gone to school together, to have worked in each other's organizations, to sit on a board together, or to be related. The professional community and the social one are not separate things here, and everybody in the room knows it.
That is a genuine strength most days. It is a problem for exactly one hour of a facilitated session: the hour where somebody needs to say the difficult thing. Elsewhere the cost of speaking up is professional. Here it can follow you to a hockey rink on Saturday, so people weigh it differently, and a facilitator who reads the resulting quiet as consensus will write down a decision the room does not actually hold.
So the design does more of the work here than almost anywhere. Views get written before anyone speaks, so nobody has to be first. Genuinely anonymous input carries the questions nobody wants attached to their name, and we mean anonymous rather than lightly disguised, because in a group this connected people can identify handwriting and turns of phrase. We are explicit at the start about what goes in the summary and what does not, and we stick to it. And we ask on the first call how connected the group already is, because the answer changes the agenda rather than being a detail.
Featured Workshops
Each of these runs in person, virtually, or as a hybrid, and here the virtual option is sometimes the more candid one.
COMS Communication Styles
COMS is our own communication styles assessment, grounded in research and facilitated by our team. It gives your people a shared way to talk about how they each work, so different styles become an advantage instead of a source of friction.
It gives people a way to name friction as a difference in style rather than as a personal problem, which matters a great deal more when the relationship has to survive the session and every one afterwards.
Eight questions, one simple grid, and a reference the whole team can point at months later.
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Strategic Planning
This is where your team gets a real say in shaping and carrying out the organization's direction, landing on initiatives that actually move forward.
PEI has grown quickly and organizations built for a smaller province are feeling it. We facilitate the process that decides what to keep and what to let go, with anonymous input doing the work a show of hands cannot do in a room this connected.
A strategic plan is a living, breathing document. We stay involved as it plays out over the following months and years.
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5 Dysfunctions of a Team
This session takes a good team and helps make it excellent. We draw on Patrick Lencioni's well-known framework, approached through an appreciative inquiry lens that starts with what's already working.
It lands well with leadership groups who know each other socially as well as professionally, which is most of them here. Politeness is not the same as trust, and the difference is hardest to see when the politeness is genuine affection. The five behaviours, trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and results, are all on the table.
Your people walk away with shared language for how they work together, and a plan for moving forward that they built themselves.
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Our Core 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.
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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 LindsayMichael 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
For work on Prince Edward Island we assign one lead facilitator who travels for the session and stays with you through the follow-up, rather than handing you to a different person each time. 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.
Before you book
Worth reading first
Six pieces that answer the questions most teams have before a first session.
- Nearby market Facilitation in Nova Scotia Read the guide
- Nearby market Facilitation in New Brunswick Read the guide
- Getting ready How to prepare your team for a facilitated session Read the guide
- Honest advice When not to hire a facilitator, and what to do instead Read the guide
- Reading a room Cultural sensitivity in facilitation Read the guide
- Afterwards Keeping momentum after the session ends Read the guide
Frequently Asked Questions
Facilitation on Prince Edward Island
Are your facilitators based on Prince Edward Island?
No. Our facilitators travel here for in-person work, and we'd rather say that plainly than imply a local office we don't have. On an Island this size that turns out to be most of the value: we arrive with no history with anyone in the room, no shared board seats, and nobody we will run into at the weekend.
Everyone in our group already knows each other. Is that a problem?
Not most days, and it is a problem for about one hour of a facilitated session: the hour where somebody needs to say the difficult thing. In a province of roughly 180,000, speaking up can follow you somewhere social, so people weigh it differently than they would elsewhere. That doesn't make the session harder to run, it makes the design matter more.
How do you actually get people to say what they think?
Structurally, rather than by asking them to be brave. Views get written before anyone speaks, so nobody has to go first. Genuinely anonymous input carries the questions nobody wants attached to their name, and we mean genuinely, because in a group this connected people can identify handwriting and turns of phrase. And we are explicit at the start about what goes into the summary and what doesn't, then stick to it.
Should we hold the session in Charlottetown or Summerside?
Depends what you want the venue to say. Charlottetown is where most provincial-scope sessions land and is easiest for the majority. Summerside is under an hour away and signals that the session belongs to the whole province rather than the capital, which is worth something when your group is drawn from both ends. For the more difficult conversations, somewhere quiet out of town is often better than either.
When should we avoid booking?
Planting and harvest if anyone in your group is connected to agriculture, and the summer if anyone is in tourism, which between them covers a good share of the Island economy. Late autumn through early spring is when most organizations here can actually give a full day to something. Tell us your sector on the first call and we'll say plainly whether the date you're eyeing is realistic.
What kinds of organizations do you work with here?
Leadership teams, boards, and departments across public, private, and non-profit organizations. On PEI that tends to mean provincial departments and agencies, health and post-secondary, agriculture and food processing, fisheries and aquaculture, aerospace and manufacturing around Summerside, tourism and culture, municipalities, and community organizations. Group sizes here are often smaller than we see elsewhere, which suits the work.
Would a virtual session work better for a sensitive topic?
Sometimes, and it's worth considering rather than assuming in-person is always better. People are occasionally more candid from their own office than in a room where they can see every reaction around the table. It removes some of the social weight without removing the conversation. We'd talk it through on the first call rather than defaulting either way.
What does our team actually walk away with?
A written summary with the decisions made, the commitments people made out loud, and who owns what by when, containing only what the group agreed would go in it. Most sessions also produce something structural, such as a plan on a page or an agreed set of priorities. The point is traction on Monday morning rather than a good feeling that fades by Wednesday.
Let's talk about your team
Tell us what you're working through and how connected the group already is, and we'll tell you honestly whether facilitation is the right tool and what a session on the Island would look like.
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