Stronger Communities Start with Stronger Collaboration
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Facilitating Change & Promoting Economic Resilience in Your Local Businesses
Facilitating Change & Promoting Economic Resilience in Your Local Businesses
When the stakes are high, planning isn’t enough.
Not-for-profit boards, industry associations, and regional economic development organizations often face the same challenges:
Not-for-profit boards, industry associations, and regional economic development organizations often face the same challenges:
- Complex issues
- Diverse voices
- Limited resources
Traditional planning processes too often result in thick reports that sit on a shelf—while stakeholders feel disengaged, frustrated, or unheard.
DCE's Community Impact Blueprint is different. It’s a structured, human-centered approach that turns conversations into clarity, collaboration, and sustained action.
The Challenge You Face
The Challenge You Face
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- Endless meetings with little progress.
- Competing priorities that make alignment difficult.
- Pressure to deliver results to founders, members, or the public.
- A sense of fatigue when past plans never translated into action.
You need a way to bring people together that creates clarity, builds trust, and results in shared ownership of real progress.
ABOUT DCE
We integrate business systems design with community-driven economic development, aligning the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises with the priorities of boards, associations and municipalities.
A Guide Who Understands Both People and Process
A Guide Who Understands Both People and Process
I’ve spent 30 years helping organizations and communities navigate complex change. I know what works—and what stalls momentum.
The Community Impact Blueprint was built for moments just like this:
The Community Impact Blueprint was built for moments just like this:
- When you need to unite diverse voices around a common goal.
- When clarity and accountability matter more than another polished report.
- When you want a plan that people will actually live into—because they helped create it.
How We’ll Work Together to Create Your Community Impact Blueprint
How We’ll Work Together to Create Your Community Impact Blueprint
Our approach builds capacity, fosters accountability, and empowers participants to design their own data-backed strategy and action plan. It ensures communities leave with an implementation strategy they own, and lays the foundation for long-term, measurable impact.
How it works:
How it works:
Step 1: Listen
Community Needs Assessment
- Gather candid input safely and neutrally.
- Identify recurring patterns with data + stories.
- Build the foundation for customized training.
Step 2: Breakthrough
Full-Day Planning Retreat
- Clarify purpose and priorities.
- Equip participants with a customized problem–solution–tool framework that disrupts unhelpful patterns in your ecosystem.
- Experience accelerated, engaging, and collaborative learning.
- Leave with aligned action plans and renewed momentum.
Step 3: Sustain
Advisory Support
- Put the right tools and systems in place to maintain momentum.
- Foster autonomy and accountability across stakeholders.
- Establish feedback loops to track and celebrate progress.
- Maintain energy with a realistic, sustainable timeline.
What Success Looks Like
What Success Looks Like
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Aligned Vision: Everyone is clear on purpose and next steps.
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Sustainable Systems: Tools and processes ensure the work continues long after the retreat.
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Visible Progress: Results can be measured and communicated to funders, members, and the public.
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Shared Ownership: Stakeholders feel heard and accountable.
Who Its For
Who Its For
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- Not-for-profit boards seeking alignment and accountability.
- Industry associations balancing diverse member needs.
- Regional economic development organizations coordinating multiple programs.
- Community leaders tackling complex issues where collaboration is essential.
Ready to move your board, association, or initiative from conversation to result?
Let's Talk
Let's Talk
Book a Discovery Call today to explore how the Community Impact Blueprint can help you align people, clarify priorities, and build momentum that lasts.
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West Kelowna, BC
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