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Roman Katsnelson
As a founder of KRD, Roman has provided collective efficacy supports to clients in the non-profit, public and private sectors for over 10 years. Prior to consulting, Roman held leadership and senior leadership positions in IT, education, human services and community development sectors in the United States and Canada. He earned a summa cum laude degree in Philosophy in his 20s and an MBA in Community Economic Development in his 30s. He is fascinated by the richness of what we humans get up to, and loves consulting work for the opportunity it affords him to put his skills in service of a diversity of missions and ideas.
Roman is a student of Servant Leadership, Dialogic Organizational Development, and Learning-focused Evaluation. His commitment is to using collective learning to achieve transformation through every project.
Rupert Amodia
Rupert is a student from the Philippines. He loves designing and developing web applications and plans to pursue a Computer Science/Software Engineering degree in 2019.
When he was in high school, he planned and lead projects that enabled communities to solve problems regarding Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Food Waste, and Education.
Apart from Rupert's passion for web development and sustainable project development, he enjoys taking pictures and creating short films.
Candise Latham
Candise Latham (she/her) has over 15 years of experience working on strategy, training, and program development. She is committed to building lasting, meaningful, and culturally relevant relationships, programs, and strategies to reduce barriers and increase pathways of success in complex system-level leadership work.
Candise is a cis-gender woman of mixed settler (English/Ukrainian) and Métis (Fort Chipewyan) heritage, and has grown up learning how reconnect with her Métis heritage and relatives. As a trainer and facilitator, helping groups demystify the brain science of trauma and impacts of colonization/contact among Indigenous communities. In addition to her work experience, Candise brings her personal experience as she and her family members have navigated poverty and risk of homelessness in Regina and Calgary. She is a proud sister, daughter, cousin, wife, and auntie.
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Jolene Fawcett (she/her) brings to consulting work 10+ years of non-profit and community-based work with youth and families in Calgary. Jolene seeks to build relationships rooted in listening, care, and support as people identify their needs and navigate complex systems to overcome challenges.
As a cis-gendered white settler, Jolene recognizes the intersections of privilege and power, and the subsequent responsibility to engage in community centered and driven change work. To her projects, Jolene brings a wealth of previous organizational development experience, including program design, contract and budget management, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, and project and change management. Jolene’s education in Community Development and Evaluation support creative and meaningful engagement approaches, and a keen sense of task implementation. Contact Us Back to team
Lateece Griffin
Lateece Griffin (She/Her) has over 10+ years of experience in research design, data collection & analysis, and sensemaking.
While in the nonprofit sector, she has contributed to uncovering insights that impacted the City of Calgary’s housing strategy, reported on sector level trends, and transformed raw data into actionable information. Lateece’s educational background in neuroscience has provided her with advanced critical thinking skills, boundless curiosity, and elevated problem-solving abilities. As a new citizen of Canada, Lateece wants to be a part of positive and forward-thinking changes in her new home.
Contact Us Back to teamRima Tarraf (She/Her) is a perpetual learner. She completed her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology in 2017 and is always looking for opportunities to grow her capabilities, understand new contexts, and use her experience to impact healthcare and societal questions.
Rima’s ongoing desire to learn is evident in her 7 plus years of experience leading and supporting various research and evaluation projects. Her projects are diverse in nature and encompass areas like rehabilitation, correctional health, housing, violence in emergency departments, and re-integration to work following injury. Regularly partnering and consulting with individuals who either design, work within, or use these systems has allowed Rima to build a deep understanding of how systems are working and the importance of listening and understanding to enact and sustain meaningful change.
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Thulasy Lettner (she/her) brings over 15 years of experience in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors, in Canada and internationally, to her work as a consultant, with expertise in anti-racist, equitable, and Indigenous-led approaches to organizational and systems change.
Thulasy's approach to organizational development is focused on learning-by-doing and adaptive capacities. She brings strengths in strategic clarity, equitable facilitation, individual and organizational praxis, and oral and written communication to her work. Thulasy is passionate about building and sharing knowledge in relational, community-based processes. She is of Sri Lankan Tamil descent and identifies as a racialized immigrant-settler. She enjoys playing soccer, birding, weaving, and spending time with her two kids. Thulasy has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta.
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Calgary
Calgary
Calgary
Calgary, AB
Calgary
Calgary
Edmonton
Digby, NS
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You can find us working throughout Canada and abroad, but we have a permanent base, too:
We offer an eclectic mix of skillsets not usually found in one agency, and a commitment to work rooted in ethical relationship. Where others see scope creep, we see opportunity for learning and emergent support.