About Resilience Planning

 

Core commitments and values

I am driven by a bigger why: to spread joy through values-aligned work that fosters positive social and environmental community impact. This impact is rooted in solid, dignified, and reciprocal relationships where we use our collective power for good. My work focuses on tapping into support and existing organizational and community resources to nourish the work.

To do this, I create environments where people feel truly welcome and safe. My approach is intentionally trauma-informed, culturally safe, and grounded in the values of integrity, community, humility, and curiosity. I am deeply committed to justice, decolonization, and anti-racism, while honouring intersectionality and accessibility.

I believe in a people-first philosophy. I am a lifelong learner dedicated to uplifting racialized, LGBTQIAA2S+, and neurodivergent (neurospicy) individuals while championing self-determination, self-advocacy, and strengths-based growth. By disrupting systems that serve the few at the expense of the many, and by reducing the ego-driven stress that poisons workplace culture, I strive to build healthier, generative experiences where everyone has the conditions to thrive.

 

How my gifts serve your organization’s transformation

The compass of conviction

My core is governed by a deeply rooted set of values. I don’t just talk about ethics; I can show you the scars of modelling them. When we work together, you have a partner who honours your principles as central to you and your organization. I will never ask you to shy away from your vision to fit a "Business As Usual" mould.

I see the "You" the system ignores 

Workplaces often treat people like interchangeable parts. I instinctively see the unique gifts and the specific brilliance people bring. We won’t create a cookie-cutter plan; we will build a strategy that specifically fits the work of your organization.

Creating the nutrient soil for your growth

My gift is restraint: the patient ability to hold pressure until it transforms into what wants to emerge. I also hold a strength for creating deep, authentic, connections over superficial networking. I offer the experience of grounding and safety: a steady container where you can slow down and take root. In this stillness, your intuition can finally surface. This is where you stop reacting and start choosing to follow your values intentionally.

Turning your "Why" into a "Way" 

It is not enough to just know why your staff are unhappy or hurt and why your clients and customers are turning away. My ability to create momentum is the spark that moves us from introspection to impact. I am naturally wired to turn thoughts into action. Combined with my gift of resourcefulness, I help you gather the tangible tools you need (the culture audit, the courageous conversations, the plans, and the capacity to see them through) to finally settle into the pursuit of your mission.

What this means for you:

When you choose Resilience Planning, you aren't just getting a coach or a consultant; you are getting a Relator who deeply understands your pain, a Believer who honours your principles, and an Activator who will help you find the courage to embody your values.

How these strengths work for you:

  • Your team will feel genuinely heard (and often for the first time in a long time), not managed or diagnosed.

  • We will build a culture strategy tailored to your organization's specific strengths, not a generic framework dropped into your context.

  • You gain a partner who is as committed to your stated values as you are — and who will name it honestly when your systems and your values aren't yet aligned.

  • We create the conditions for real honesty inside your organization: the kind of trust where hard truths can finally surface without fear of consequences.

  • We won't stay stuck in what's broken. We use what's happened as information, and we move together toward what you're actually building.

Lineage of wisdom

I am humbled by the following teachers and I bring the work I’ve done with them and the lessons I carry with me from that work to our engagement. It is an honour and a privilege to share their names here with you. 

adrienne maree browne (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work who taught me to ‘move at the speed of trust’, ‘when you trust the people, they become trustworthy’, ‘what you pay attention to grows’, and that the way forward is through loving corrections.

Robert Gass (he/him) is an internationally-recognized pioneer in the fields of leadership, organizational, and social transformation who, through the Art of Leadership and ongoing training through the Rockwood Leadership Institute, taught me about identifying and managing my triggers, what real leadership looks like, and the impacts of white dominant culture.

Wendy Simon (she/her) is Haida/Mohawk, a Traditional Knowledge Keeper, colleague, social worker, facilitator, curriculum development specialist, who taught me the value of my gift of restraint, decolonized approaches, and that the work is too important to centre ego. She also taught me not to rush anyone’s journey.

Dr. Jen Buck (she/her) is a Hapa health care leader and a dear friend who taught me about third wave feminism and reframed my lived experiences through feminism. She helped make me a radical feminist. (Thank you for your subscriptions to Bust and Bitch!)

Dr. Resmaa Menakem (he/him) is  a therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders. He is the leading voice on racialized trauma and the creator of Somatic Abolitionism with Karine Bell (she/her) who is a somatics educator, practitioner, somatic abolitionist, scholar-activist, and clown-in-training and founder of Rooted. They taught me how to regulate my nervous system and that the urgency is in awareness building, not moving to action. We proceed slowly and intentionally. 

Desiree Adaway (she/her) is a consultant, trainer, coach and speaker building resilient, equitable, and inclusive organizations, who taught me how to make an apology rooted in changed behaviour, how to use my privilege at work, and when to step back.

Tatal7ia Michelle Nahanee  (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)) decolonial facilitator, strategist, educator, and author who taught me ways to embed decolonization in my personal and professional life.

Anakha Coman (she/her) studies leadership and organizational psychology, theology, expressive arts, spirituality, health and medicine, mindfulness and meditation, who taught me that I am meant for greater things.

Ji-Youn Kim (she/they) is a joy-seeker, liberatory dreamer, psych survivor, solopoly-ish lover, justice-oriented care worker and therapist-ish, and ongoing creator of community. And Cicely Belle Blain (she/they) is a writer, activist, and thought leader, driving powerful conversations and strategizing for change. They both taught me, through their Processing Rage course, that anger is a valid emotion and needs to be expressed somewhere, somehow and then you can come back into conversation with people.

Mona Eltahawy (she/her) is a feminist author, disruptor of patriarchy  who taught me my anger is valid and I have a responsibility to act on it for future generations.

Bisan Owda (she/her) is a journalist, activist, filmmaker, and to date, a genocide survivor, who taught me to look directly at evil, in its eye, and continue to lift people up. 

Sinead O’Connor (Shuhada’ Sadaqat) (she/her) is an Irish protest singer/songwriter, who taught me about standing up for justice. And what living a values-aligned life looks like.

All the people who I supervised - have taught me that each person has gifts that deserve nurturing.