Strategy, Stakeholders & Inclusive Collaboration
Organizations thrive when their strategies are shaped by the voices of the people who matter most — employees, communities, and stakeholders across sectors. Yet, navigating diverse perspectives, addressing conflict, and aligning on shared values can be challenging without the right support.
With over 20 years of experience across Canada’s public service, and Asia pacific corporate sector, I help leaders design and facilitate critical conversations where strategy and stakeholder engagement meet.
I specialize in facilitating:
- Navigating Transition & Change
- Navigating Change with Maturities – Social, Personal, Spiritual, Contextual, Professional – mature your mindset and nourish yourself so that you can bring your whole self to your life and work in these times.
- Intercultural Collaboration — Bridging cultural perspectives to build trust and shared understanding.
- Conflict Resolution — Transforming tension into productive dialogue that strengthens relationships.
- Defining Values & Vision — Guiding groups to co-create the principles and future direction that anchor their strategy.
- DEI & Inclusive Leadership — Embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into strategy so it becomes systemic, not symbolic.
- Unconscious Bias Awareness — Uncovering hidden barriers to ensure decisions and strategies are truly inclusive.
- Effectiveness for Global Business Environments
How I Work ?
Whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person, I partner with you at every stage:
Team Assessments, Team Coaching, Interactive Customized Workshops
- Pre-Engagement Design — Aligning objectives with your strategic goals and shaping sessions for maximum stakeholder participation.
- Facilitation — Creating a safe, balanced environment where every voice contributes, while keeping focus on the strategy at hand.
- Post-Engagement Integration — Turning insights into actionable steps that move your organization toward its vision.
THE IMPACT
My facilitation doesn’t stop at dialogue — it helps leaders and organizations:
- Clarify strategy through inclusive conversations.
- Strengthen stakeholder relationships that sustain long-term success.
- Build alignment on values, vision, and priorities across diverse groups.
Read more about client work and experience here.
What Makes a Good Facilitator?
A good facilitator inspires the learner’s commitment to learning and growing and makes the learning process participatory. They build a safe container where the teacher and learners are free to explore what arises. With powerful listening skills and empathy, a good facilitator reads the room and senses what is going on, has a good sense of timing and gives direction that leads to meeting the objectives of a session!
“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
International Development 3rd Year Participants
University of Waterloo
Bryan Tomlinson
, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division, Global Affairs Canada
Jas is highly effective in maintaining high morale. She wonderfully facilitated and very informative class. The conversations were stimulating, applicable to real-life in the department, and I came away with some new strategies. Indeed, this training was very helpful and very relevant to the current challenges that have been blown out in the open with the issues of inclusion and diversity in Canada and abroad. I’ll be moving to a new desk/job in September, and this will certainly be helpful in helping navigate the change/shift!Many thanks indeed Jas for the enlightening training!
Executive
, Sprott School of Management at the Carleton University
Jas is an inspiring and a creative speaker with knowledge to communicate possible solutions about those intangible issues that invariably happen in multicultural organizational settings, and which adversely impact on the organization’s effectiveness. Her speaking skills, along with a very personable style, are impressive indeed.
Lara Hill
United Nations
Jas has a tremendous gift for coaching : patience, open presence, empathy each comes from a kind of confidence and strength that allows for trust building quickly. In my coaching process with jas, I felt safe immediately. She has a natural way of gaining trust. She checked in regularly and kept me accountable in a caring and a balanced way.
Alejandro Lujan
, Instacart
I highly recommend Jas to any professional struggling to work with conflicting priorities and self confidence. I came to Jas wanting to be a better professional, instead she carved a path to be a better and wholesome person. I particularly admired her openness to understand my situation, see things from my perspective and her ability to guide my growth as a better professional and an individual. I recommend Jas to anyone looking for professional and personal coaching.
Shastri Institute
University of Calgary
Jas has an intuitive ability to discern who had difficulty adjusting, and she finds just the right touch to help her learners deal with conflicting situations. Jas listens generously and conveys a message of power and privilege quite succinctly. She teaches theory through many practical simulations, has a great sense of humour.
Deepa Nambiar
, Asylum Access Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jas was recommended to me as I was transitioning into a bigger leadership role, leading a diverse, multicultural, global team in an international NGO. She is the coach I never knew I needed. Her focus on deep self-awareness, emotional attunement and meeting me exactly where I am allowed sometimes unexpected, but important issues to rise to the surface. I really appreciate her attentiveness, compassion, deep presence, as well as the vast repository of tools, insights and knowledge that she brings to every session. Halfway through our coaching relationship, I can already see a change – I am able to draw from a range of tools we have worked together in challenging moments to be a more present, courageous, authentic and aware leader. I would highly recommend Jas for anyone ready for a journey of transformation professionally and personally.
Joe Goodings
, Global Affairs Canada
I took the course Intercultural Proficiency for Managers in a Canadian Mission in May 2022 and found it very helpful. Even though this will be my fourth posting, it will be my first in a management position managing both Canadians and locally engaged staff. The course provided useful tools to develop self-awareness of my unconscious biases, develop an understanding of intercultural contexts that goes deeper than surface behaviours, and approach difficult conversations with staff with cultural sensitivity. Jas facilitated discussion well and helped us work through scenarios that could lead to misunderstandings if not handled well. I will refer back to the course and what we learned as I head into my posting in Bangladesh.
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