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Roman Katsnelson
Christie Smith
Christie is a Registered Social Worker who has seven years of experience working in a variety of Community Development, Community Economic Development, and service provision programs in Calgary and Edmonton. As a recent transplant to Edmonton, Christie has focused on supporting marginalized communities, people experiencing homelessness and poverty, and senior-serving resources in the city.
Christie has facilitated participatory Program and Impact Evaluations using a breadth of tools, including Theory of Change, Outcome Harvesting, and Program Logic Models in service of data collection and analysis, and external and internal reporting. Her experience and desire to keep learning fuel her commitment to discover new realms to apply her skills. She is energized by the individual and social transformations that can emerge through participatory community development approaches and is excited to facilitate these processes with groups and organizations.
Contact Us Back to team 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.
Alanya Dhalla
Alanya's commitment to social change has led her to work opportunities in Thailand, Victoria and Calgary, working with migrant rights, equity and human rights, and youth advocacy. She is particularly driven and motivated by systems thinking and frameworks that embody a holistic approach, especially the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Indigenous traditional knowledge.
Alanya has been contributing her research and evaluation prowess to KRD's project work starting in May 2019, working on Evaluation and Learning Frameworks and Evaluative Thinking projects, while completing a double-major in Environmental Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Victoria, living abroad, and helping run a BC student rights non-profit she co-founded.
Contact Us Back to teamBen is a chef, entrepreneur, musician and software developer. His commitment to community development has led him to co-found a food security startup, promoting access to healthy and accessible farm-to-table foods. A recent pivot to software development has shifted his approach, but not his commitment and he now brings his knowledge of front-end development and user experience design to KRD and the development of A Better Community Database.
Ben's variety of volunteer and professional commitments, along with a keen observational capacity, help him leverage technology for the common good, in service of human endeavour and culture.
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Utrecht, The Netherlands
Alanya Dhalla
Calgary
Rupert Amodia
Calgary
Roman Katsnelson
Edmonton
Christie Smith
We are deeply curious about human systems and the capacity for change. We use our work as a platform to grow collective potential through fostering connection, curiosity and commitment.
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.
Got a Question?
KRD 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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