Stories Behind the Work
Selected examples of work across government, First Nations, universities, and organizations—where reconciliation, engagement, and place-based strategy have been shaped through relationship, responsibility, and long-term impact.
Not just projects—relationships, responsibilities, and outcomes.
Much of this work has taken place in complex environments where trust, governance, land, culture, and institutional systems meet. These stories offer a way to understand the scope, depth, and practical impact of that work—without reducing it to performance, branding, or surface-level summaries.
Arc’teryx
Supported a global outdoor brand in deepening its understanding of place, relationships to land, reconciliation, and cultural impact across the organization.
This work included design and implementation of global training and onboarding for all teams.
This work included integration of place-based understanding into stores and store design.
This work included organizational learning, advisory support on Indigenous-led partnerships, representation, inclusion, and place-based storytelling connected to the landscapes where the company operates.
The result was not just stronger messaging, but stronger internal alignment—helping build a more grounded and sustainable foundation for long-term reconciliation work across teams and public-facing spaces.
BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU)
Worked with BCGEU teams and the Indigenous Advisory Committee to design foundational governance documents and strategic frameworks that guide the committee’s work across its full term.
This included dialogue among Indigenous members to support the development of guiding principles, vision, communications approaches, and advisory structures.
The work helped strengthen Indigenous representation within the union while creating a clearer, more grounded framework for how the committee could lead, advise, and move forward.
Capilano University & University of British Columbia
Supported faculty, students, and institutional learning environments through workshops, presentations, and guest teaching that connected Indigenous governance, law, place-based learning, identity, and reconciliation.
At Capilano University, this included faculty development across disciplines such as tourism, outdoor recreation, and kinesiology. At UBC, it included presentations and lectures exploring identity, place, Indigenous law, and the historical relationships between Indigenous peoples and institutions.
These engagements helped deepen educational practice while creating stronger bridges between academic settings, land-based understanding, and lived responsibility.
Squamish Nation, Islands Trust & Major Agreements
Worked at the intersection of Indigenous rights, governance, land use, environmental policy, and major development. This included engagement on proposals across Squamish Nation territory, policy tools and mapping systems for Islands Trust, and legally binding environmental and impact assessment processes connected to projects such as Woodfibre LNG.
The work also contributed to large-scale regional initiatives, land agreements, stewardship planning, consultation processes, and the early collaborations that helped establish what later became MST Development Corporation.
Across these contexts, the role was not simply advisory. It involved helping shape strategy, systems, agreements, and durable pathways for self-determination, stewardship, and long-term institutional change.
Additional notable work
Alongside the stories above, this work has contributed to major negotiations, regional initiatives, environmental stewardship processes, and legal or governance frameworks across public, Indigenous, and institutional contexts.
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