Helping leaders connect the dots to tackle complex community challenges.
What keeps you up at night?
Now, more than ever, leaders are being tasked with finding solutions to community challenges that are complex and multifaceted. The solutions needed to address these complex issues are not linear and well-intentioned strategies are often siloed in their approach.
Our approach...
Avail Consulting helps leaders and their communities respond to ever-changing social factors that influence community health and vitality. Novel strategies born from innovation and strong leadership are required.​
We help leaders in their efforts to improve community-level safety and well-being by focusing on 5 key areas:
System-level thinking and design​​
​Leveraging existing initiatives and infrastructure ​
​​Inter-sectoral collaboration​
Information sharing, knowledge transfer and exchange​
Data and performance measurement​
Where the thinking takes us...
Risk prioritization
Strategy alignment
Communication loops
Built environment
Inter-connected networks
Collaborative governance
Future-proofing
Co-created strategies
Karie is passionate about growing local capacity through collaborative processes. Building on more than 20 years of experience as a senior leader and the past 8 years as a consultant, Karie helps organizations and communities address sticky community challenges by focusing on social development priorities.
Working with partners across multiple sectors to improve community level safety and well-being, her approach is thoughtful, well-coordinated, and responsive to the ever-changing project and human elements that arise. Recognizing that complex social issues are interconnected and that solutions needed are non-linear, Karie offers expertise in working with interconnected networks, building consensus and commitment, and finding ways to optimize and grow local capacity to improve opportunities for individuals and groups in the community through system change.
Her passion is identifying strengths and opportunities to adapt to new conditions and realities through the engagement of key leaders to support and lead innovation and change through the lens of systems thinking in areas of social development.
In recent years, Karie has led the start-up, design and implementation of large, provincially-mandated inter-sectoral collaborations such as Health Links and Community Safety and Well-Being Planning for various Municipalities.
As needed, Karie assembles a team of associates to address the various aspects of client or community needs.
In addition to her consulting work, Karie is the co-founder of an engagement and social learning company, sits on various community-based committees, and is currently theChair of the Alzheimer Society of Simcoe County.
​Avail Consulting is proud to use Learnici as a communications and training platform.​
