What Sets Us Apart

Our philosophy is to help you to quickly and efficiently solve your own human resource and organisational problems or to deal with environmental and climate change issues by providing a framework and a set of processes tailored to your particular circumstances.

We offer a unique combination of skills and extensive experience and expertise in organisation development, creative problem solving and environmental issue management that can help you use your own resources in a more effective manner.

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Diane Houle-Rutherford With over seventeen years experience in Human Resources Management within Canadian federal government departments and agencies, Diane started her own consulting firm in 1994. Since then she has provided management consulting and coaching services to managers and senior level executives in both the public and the private sectors, in Canada, in the United States, and in Europe on issues such as Creative Problem Solving, Creativity, Leadership, Change and Transition Management, Team Building, Conflict Resolution, Process Improvement and Group Facilitation. Diane is a licensed practitioner of the Kirton Adaption Innovation Instrument (KAI), the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and the Benchmarks® Developmental Reference Points (360-degree feedback process). She is certified by William Bridges to deliver his "Managing Organizational Transition" seminar and is also certified by the Center for Creative Leadership to administer the KEYS instrument to assess the organisational climate for creativity. Diane is an Associate of the Center for Research in Applied Creativity, is a certified facilitator and trainer for its Simplex® Transformation Process. In 2001 she was granted a Master of Arts in Human Systems Intervention by Concordia University in Montreal. She is perfectly bilingual in English and French and offers her services in both languages. She currently delivers courses in executive coaching for both the University of Sherbrooke and Saint Paul University.

Ian D. Rutherford Ian has been a weather forecaster, research scientist, research manager, operations manager and executive in charge of activities as diverse as National Weather Services, National Parks and National State of the Environment Reporting. He holds bachelor and master degrees in physics from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in meteorology from McGill University. He has published numerous articles in the scientific literature, technical reports, book chapters, book reviews, newsletter articles, etc. He has been editor of "Atmosphere-Ocean", the scientific journal of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) and directed the publication of "The State of Canada's Environment 1996", Canada's National Environmental Indicator Series and many other state of the environment reports. He has served on many national and international boards and committees including the Councils of both the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society  and the American Meteorological Society. From 1997 to 2003 he managed the research grants program of the Canadian Institute for Climate Studies at the University of Victoria. As President of CMOS in 1999- 2000 he established the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS), funded by a $60 million grant from the Government of Canada. Since 2003 he has been helping the national office of CMOS take over and modernize its membership and financial administration and currently serves CMOS part-time as Executive Director.

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