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Since founding DCE in 1996, Tana Plewes, MA, and her facilitators have helped hundreds of organizations, including nonprofits, economic development groups, and startups, streamline processes, discover new revenue streams, align company culture, and make legacy-making breakthroughs in their industries.
Systems are structures to hold desired outcomes in place.
Itâs easy to imagine what you want: more wealth, more time for what you love, and more wins. But imagining how to get there? Not so easy. Thatâs where systems come into play.Â
By learning to think in a systems mindset, you can anticipate future needs and respond decisively and effectively in real-time. Youâll understand how departments, people, technology, and processes interact and affect each other.Â
And most importantly, you set the course for success and bring everyone on your team on board with their momentum for shared targets.Â
When your business has a foundation of effective systems, itâs easy to be visionary and excited about your future.
We help family business owners with 10-150 employees engage their management team in transforming stress and overwhelm into a business thatâs balanced and blueprinted, ready for growth, sale or succession.
The DCE also provides meaningful data to support the work of Regional Economic Development Organizations. We partner with these organizations through ongoing needs assessments, initiative planning and outcomes monitoring.
Our work facilitates:
Learn about the methods we use to gather data about local businesses to provide accurate and up-to-date information to our partners. Signing up for emails will give you valuable periodic insights to make informed policy decisions.
âIâm on a mission to rehumanize business systems.â
Tana Plewes, MA, is an author, systems analyst, and sought-after business coach. As the founder of The Discovery Centre for Entrepreneurship, she has facilitated systems-thinking teachings for over thirty years. Business leaders and subject matter experts work with Tana to uncover patterns and systems in places where others may not think to look. By combining business with psychology, Tana hones in on the underlying causes, not symptoms, of operational dysfunction and aids teams in building a way forward together.
Tana earned her Master of Arts in Leadership at the Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC. She holds a Professional Certificate in Advanced Facilitation Practices, along with additional certifications in human research and facilitation, and mariner training as a Certified Able Bodied Seaman, from a bygone era skippering a boat in the Pacific Northwest. She is a student and friend of renowned small business expert Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth.
Tana values significant life experiences like pearls on a string, each marking a stage of development and growth. Using her systems-thinking mind to perceive moments in her life in layers, Tana has made meaningful connections that inform her work, including in her book, The Possibility Process: A Proven Method to Achieve Breakthrough Business Results.
With every client relationship, Tana seeks to build a trusting, safe environment where every participant feels seen and understood. Her programs pulse with engagement because everyone is empowered to contribute, knowing their input will be thoughtfully considered.
As a participant once said of Tana: âShe has the qualifications to find the best in any one. She can see right through the barriers that stop us from living our dreams.â
Find out if you’re really ready to make a change.
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