Are you ready to grow?
Expansion is accelerating across Canada’s energy sector.
As utilities and clean-energy organizations scale across regions and systems, complexity grows. Decisions slow. Accountability blurs. Leaders spend more time coordinating than moving forward.
Most organizations enter expansion with a clear strategy.
What becomes harder is sustaining alignment as complexity increases.
When expansion pressures increase, leaders need to evolve.
Leaders often notice:
Decision cycles lengthening as more regions, systems, and risks are involved
Accountability becoming harder to hold across governance structures
Senior leaders absorbing increasing coordination and escalation load
These are not leadership failures.
They are signs that your leadership decision systems need to evolve to support risk-reduction and readiness as your company grows.
How an Expansion Readiness Snapshot helps
A practical check-in that prepares leaders and their systems for growth
When organizations enter periods of expansion or major build activity, the pressure on leadership and decision-making increases quickly. Timelines compress, ambiguity rises, and established ways of working are tested.
An Expansion Readiness Snapshot provides a thoughtful starting point. It helps organizations understand how prepared their leadership practices and decision-making norms are for what’s coming next — and where additional support may be needed.
An Expansion Readiness Snapshot helps organizations understand how prepared their leadership practices and decision-making norms are for what’s coming next — and where additional support may be needed.
This is a focused, time-bound review designed to complement existing culture and leadership initiatives, not replace them. It supports dialogue about your risk-reduction and readiness with expert facilitation that helps you make connections across a complex system.
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Utilities expanding across regions or systems
Clean-energy organizations scaling hydro or nuclear capacity
Senior leadership teams navigating growth alongside high public and regulatory accountability
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“We’ve done a lot of work clarifying our culture and leadership behaviours — now we’re about to move fast.”
The Snapshot helps leaders see how those commitments are showing up in everyday decisions, especially when timelines tighten and trade-offs get harder. It supports existing culture work by identifying where it’s holding — and where it may need reinforcement during expansion.
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“We know we’ll need leadership and team support — we just don’t want to guess where.”
The Snapshot offers a practical way to identify where additional support will have the greatest impact, and where things are already working well. It helps organizations focus resources intentionally rather than applying broad solutions too early.
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I“We know we’ll need strong leadership capacity as we grow, but job titles don’t tell the full story.”
The Expansion Readiness Snapshot is designed to support — not replace — existing culture, leadership, and workforce planning initiatives by providing early insight into how expansion pressures are likely to show up in practice. It provides useful input for workforce and succession planning without turning the work into individual performance assessment.
What the review explores
· How decisions are currently made, owned, and escalated
· Where ambiguity creates hesitation or delay
· Which leadership habits will be most tested during expansion
· What cultural strengths should be intentionally protected
The focus is on patterns and conditions, not individual performance.
What organizations gain
· Clear insight into readiness for expansion
· Early identification of risks and pressure points
· Practical, prioritized recommendations
· Greater alignment on where to focus — and where not to
How organizations typically use this work for real impact
Organizations often use this review to:
· Gain early insight before expansion accelerates
· Align leaders on what will need to change — and what should not
· Protect existing culture investments
· Make more informed choices about leadership and team support
How the review works
The process is modular and can be scoped to a function, division, or leadership cohort.
Typical components include:
· A brief scoping conversation with sponsors
· Confidential interviews with a cross-section of leaders
· Synthesis and pattern analysis across roles and functions
· A facilitated insights session with leaders
The approach is designed to be respectful, practical, and grounded in the organization’s current reality.
A concise summary of key readiness patterns, with clear identification of:
Strengths to leverage during expansion
Areas likely to be under strain
Practical, prioritized recommendations
Guidance on where to focus support — and where not to
The output is intended to inform decisions and action, not to sit on a shelf.
What your organization receives
Package Options
Option 1:
Focussed Readiness Snapshot
Best for:
A first engagement
A need to focus on one business area in the organization
What’s Included:
Scoping conversation with sponsor(s)
5–6 confidential leadership interviews
Short self-assessment tool
Pattern analysis
Concise written summary and virtual debrief of:
Key readiness strengths
Primary pressure points
3–4 practical recommendations
Option 2:
Standard Expansion Readiness Review
Best for:
Organizations already feeling expansion pressure
Leaders who want shared understanding, not just insight
When there’s appetite for reflection but not disruption
What’s Included:
Everything in Option 1, plus:
8–10 leadership interviews
Deeper synthesis across roles/functions
Facilitated half-day exploration workshop
Clear prioritization framework:
What requires attention now
What can wait
What should be protected
Option 3:
Comprehensive Readiness & Transition Support
Best for:
Major build phases
High executive visibility
When culture investment is already significant and needs protecting
What’s Included:
Everything in Option 2, plus:
12–15 interviews across levels or functions
Additional diagnostic focus on:
Cross-silo coordination
Decision escalation patterns
Leadership capacity under sustained ambiguity
Two facilitated sessions:
Leadership sense-making
Prioritization and transition planning
Optional briefing for executive team or People & Culture leadership
“Kate immediately engaged in exploring and “mapping” our organization… this was extremely helpful on many levels… the process allowed us to see the gaps and challenges that faced us going forward.
Kate worked closely with the executive team around improving our ability to think strategically. She combines excellent listening skills with a strong strategic orientation… She assisted me greatly in positioning our executives to be much more strategic in their work.”
— Dr. Moura Quayle, Provost and Vice President Academic, University of British Columbia