I am honoured to have worked with, and for, incredible communities, clients and colleagues. Here is some of what they have to say about their experience.
"There is an old adage about consultants. They will borrow your watch and then charge you to tell them the time. Katie is not that consultant. She is one of the most thoughtful and substantive professionals I have ever worked with. She brings an amazing toolkit of personal skills and advanced techniques, and she applies these to the benefit of every project or process that she touches. Rather than steal your watch and charge you for the time, Katie would start by asking “why do you need to know the time?” - Elise DeCola, General Manager, Nuka Research
"Katie worked collaboratively with myself, and the House of Wolf team, to develop our winning Arctic Inspiration Prize proposal, and launch the Indigenous Community Safety Partnership Program. As part of this, Katie facilitated strategic and organizational planning sessions, convened and communicated with partners, and led the project management, writing and submission of our successful AIP proposal. Katie brought to our team her many years of experience, knowledge, and skills that enhanced our AIP application from over 6 Northern regions to a successful selection out of many applications. Katie’s wealth of expertise, dedication passion and professionalism was the key to the successful AIP win and I would highly recommend Katie and would consider working with her again in a “heart beat”. - Gina Nagano, Founder and CEO, House of Wolf & Associates, Whitehorse, Yukon
"I worked with Katie for many years at the City of Vancouver, most recently during her tenure as the City's Chief Resilience Officer. Her contribution to the development of our Resilience Strategy can't be overstated. Through her leadership of that complex process, and at a fraction of the resources invested elsewhere, Katie delivered a framework to foster resilience that builds on and serves as a practical complement to the City’s many other strategic plans. She developed a deep network of partners inside and outside the organization and leveraged those relationships very effectively. She was such a pleasure to work with." - Paul Mochrie, City Manager, City of Vancouver
"Katie is very principled, extremely hardworking and creative, highly strategic in her thinking, an incredibly skillful facilitator and a person that places significant value on the importance of relationships. The work that she has done at the City of Vancouver has changed the way many of us think about the challenges we face, what we can do about them and how to leverage the strengths of other partners, particularly at the community level, to accomplish more than we could ever do independently. I learned a great deal working with Katie over the last several years and sincerely hope to work with her again in the future." - Kirsten Jasper, Manager, Operational Readiness, City of Vancouver, Office of Emergency Management
"I've had the pleasure of working with Katie through her time at the City of Vancouver in a number of capacities. She joined my team (Office of Emergency Management) and quickly moved into a management role where we were able to tackled a number of initiatives together, including developing the City's special events public safety framework which was a significant City of Vancouver focus at the time. Katie's skills were quickly noticed by others and she became involved in a number of other City-wide strategic projects in the resilience, environmental protection, and community wellbeing areas representing the emergency management file. Most recently, I worked with Katie as a peer in her role as the City's Chief Resilience Officer where she was instrumental in fostering community connections, building trust with partners inside and outside the organization, and developing the Resilient Vancouver strategy which continues to guide Vancouver's efforts in this area today. Katie is a pleasure to work with and I would be thrilled if we had the opportunity to work together again." - Daniel Stevens, Director, Emergency Management, City of Vancouver