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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
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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Rima Tarraf
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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Thulasy Lettner
Calgary
Rupert Amodia
Calgary
Nurishah Dharamsi
Calgary
Jolene Fawcett
Calgary
Lateece Griffin
Calgary, AB
Amanda Kriaski
Calgary
Roman Katsnelson
Edmonton
Thulasy Lettner
Digby, NS
Candise Latham
Calgary
Rima Tarraf
We are deeply curious about human systems and the capacity for change.
Contact UsIn this space, we share some thoughts, ideas and other information you might find useful for topics of collective efficacy.
Reach Us!
You can find us working throughout Canada and abroad, but we have a permanent base, too:
- KRD Consulting Group
1206 20 Ave SE, - Calgary, AB T2G 1M8
- (403) 918-0001
- info@hellokrd.net
and the world.
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We use our work as a platform to grow collective potential through fostering connection, curiosity and commitment.
Contact UsKRD has a 10-year track record of supporting client partners across the non-profit, public and private sectors.
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.
Data & Technology
We build websites, back-end management systems, and databases to simplify technology and put it to use in your work.
Moving an organization to higher degrees of technological integration is not just a matter of selecting and installing software packages. It's a significant change process that requires the input and participation of the full team.
Your technology solutions and data systems have to form a snug fit with both your strategy and culture. We perform current-state analyses to ensure your new systems have a high chance of success - instead of being a cause of frustration. And we see these projects as integrated with every other aspect of your work, and stand ready to help there as well. Where others see scope creep, we see an opportunity to contribute to deeper learning and thriving at work.
We work with free, open-source software so that your limited resources can go to proper training and support instead of licensing fees.
Some solutions we harness to your use include:
Evaluation
We combine approaches from Systems Thinking and Action Research to build transformational evaluation experiences.
Today's organizations operate in a context of complexity, where adaptability is critical to success. We help you integrate intention and responsiveness in service of your mission.
Our approach is aligned with Dialogic Organizational Development - where change and strategy are seen as both component and result of intentional, facilitated dialogue. Our role is to convene your group, provide you with relevant information, and facilitate the processes of planning and implementation. Our combination of business and financial acumen, leadership coaching skills, and social economy alignment will help build the platform for your success.
Get in touch All ServicesStrategy & Change Management
We use a humanistic, inclusive approach to help organizations augment their collective capacity.
Evaluation of programs, processes, structures and outcomes has tremendous transformative potential that is often missed.
Done right, evaluation will help you tell your story, stay accountable, and, most importantly create significant, useful learning. We are practitioners of Utilization-Focused Evaluation, and put strong emphasis on preparatory and design work - getting clear on who the intended users of evaluation are, and how they might best use any new learning generated.
We start with your current state, work to build an understanding of what's possible, and then bridge the two, using a variety of tools and methodologies as appropriate:
Training & Facilitation
We offer online and in-person training courses in ethical leadership, evaluative thinking and effective collaboration.
We can work with your internal or partnership group, or you can attend one of our periodically offered courses. Our in-course work, whether delivered electronically or face-to-face, always relies on combining our expertise with the wisdom in the room. Our participants learn as much, if not more, from each other, as they do from us.
The courses in our "Beyond the Rhetoric" combine theory with practice - you will have homework! Our participants meet in a group context to learn from theory and each other, and work on a small project in their workplace to integrate their learning into their work.
Additionally, if you need occasional support in facilitating community or team meetings, we are able to step in and provide effective facilitation rooted in Community Development principles.
Get in touch All ServicesWe are keeners for collective learning, and want to know how your session with KRD facilitators went.
Were we effective? Did you feel welcomed? Were you surprised by anything?
Let us know in this anonymous form; then contact us directly if you want to keep the conversation going!
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