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About
We are a small company with a big heart. Our work is grounded in understanding what matters to people.
Our clients face a range of complex questions that have no easy or ‘right’ answer. We don’t presume to have the answers for you. Instead, we let our expertise and curiosity drive us by asking questions, and understanding what matters in each unique case. We bring interdisciplinary methods to each project and consider all of our work collaborative in nature.
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Nicole is passionate about working with people in the places they call home. A primary focus in her practice is understanding what matters to people, and ensuring these values form the foundation of more equitable and resilient partnerships. This focus, alongside her commitment to leveling the playing field across diverse decision-making contexts and supporting the ongoing need to decolonize our systems of governance, drives her dedication to supporting collaborative spaces across scales.
At a personal level, Nicole’s style is relational and direct; she seeks to bring clarity to complex issues while respecting the diversity of worldviews and experience represented within collaborative processes. Nicole calls the Westcoast of British Columbia home.
Nicole holds an MREM from the University of Dalhousie and is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Resource, Environment, and Sustainability, University of British Columbia. She has additional training in Indigenous laws from the University of Victoria Indigenous Law Research Unit; in Structured Decision-Making from Compass Resource Management; and in Conflict Resolution from the Justice Institute of British Columbia. She works with provincial, federal, and elected and hereditary First Nation governments in areas of collaborative governance, Indigenous laws, climate change adaptation, and stewardship planning. Nicole’s expertise stems from a multi-disciplinary background in environmental planning, decision analysis, Indigenous legal theory, anthropology, and philosophy. Nicole’s skill-set is both exacting and flexible; she is adept at multi-stakeholder facilitation, project management, strategic planning and analysis, and at supporting the many scales within Government-to-Government processes.
Our partners are interdisciplinary, bringing expertise in decision analysis, quantitative methods, statistical analysis, Indigenous legal theory, environmental and cumulative effects assessment, and much more. We work formally with The Eskina Collaboration and partner in creative ways with a wide network, bringing specific expertise to meet each project's requirements.
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