What We’ve Done

Proven Solutions & Results

For almost two and a half decades, we’ve been providing management consulting and executive coaching services to organizations and leaders in a variety of sectors, addressing a variety of challenges. All our projects share a strong desire for change, innovation and improvement. We bring to you a sampling of our best work with the hope that you will see what is possible when people rally around a common objective.

  • Vancity

    Igniting Corporate Innovation

    In 2015, Berlineaton was asked by then Vancity President and CEO, Tamara Vrooman to provide a diagnostic analysis and report of recommendations regarding organizational and cultural improvements that would enable Vancity to attain its ambitious 2020 goals as stated in Vancity’s business plan: Redefining Wealth.

  • Southern Alberta Flood Recovery

    Streamlining Flood Recovery Applications for Thousands of Alberta Citizens

    Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) needed to streamline the approval process for flood recovery applications by a dramatic margin to deal with a huge increase in the number of applications due to the flood.

Berlineaton helped staff redesign their processes, and build a stronger team, with the result that turnaround times were reduced from four to six months to seven days for most applications.

  • Balmoral Hall School

    Be BOLD!

    Berlineaton has helped Balmoral Hall School (BH) design, develop and execute its strategic plan since 2009. In 2016, BH re-engaged Berlineaton to do a major refresh, setting in motion the priorities, activities, support and energy needed to realize a bolder future for the school, building on its strategic planning success to date.

  • BC Investment Agriculture Foundation

    Investing in the Future of BC’s Agriculture and Food Sector

    We partnered with the BC Investment Agriculture Foundation – an industry-led, not-for-profit organization that creates funding opportunities to support a thriving BC agriculture and food sector – to develop its first strategic plan.

  • Canadian Accredited Independent Schools

    Using Data to Inform Strategic Planning

    In late 2019, and through COVID, the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools embarked on a strategic planning process that resulted in a bold new strategic plan, launched on Oct 19th at the Heads and Chairs Conference. Berlineaton provided end-to-end consulting support from rethinking vision, mission and values to reporting templates that measure progress. In addition, our Data and Insights Team designed and administered a Member Survey to all members nationally.

  • Canfor Pulp

    Leading Supply Chain Transformation

    As part of a large-scale strategic planning project, our team undertook the design, administration and reporting of a nationwide survey for a leading Canadian association.

  • City of Vancouver

    Planning for Future Vehicle Technology

    We worked closely with another consulting firm and City staff, delivered focus groups and large team events to frame out a draft plan and toolkit, and then ground-truthed and improved it through various engagements with functional groups within the city staff envelope.

  • Natural Resources Canada

    Improving Effectiveness of the Technical Support Team

    Following on from previous successful projects to continuously improve key corporate services processes across the Canadian Forest Service, Berlineaton was engaged by the Director General of the Pacific Forestry Centre (PFC) to apply proven Continuous Improvement techniques to improving the effectiveness of the Technical Support Team – the group of scientific support staff who provide critically important project enabling support to PFC staff.

  • Online Learning

    Understanding the Online Learning Experience

    In March 2020, COVID-19 disrupted all our lives in myriad ways — with the education of our children being particularly impacted. Having worked with Canadian independent schools for nearly 25 years, we watched and were impressed by how schools pivoted so quickly from delivering in-person to online education in a physically distanced world. Berlineaton surveyed a handful of schools to gain feedback about this experience and to create actionable insights to improve the experience of students, parents and teachers.

  • Our Place Society

    Gauging Employee Engagement

    Our Place Society, in pursuit of its goal to be an employer of choice for team members aligned with its Vision of “Nourishment, hope, and belonging for all in Greater Victoria”, partnered with Berlineaton to design, administer, and analyze an engagement survey of its 193 staff in six locations.

  • Pacific Blue Cross

    Building a Technology Road Map

    Pacific Blue Cross, British Columbia’s leading benefits provider, had developed an ambitious Corporate Strategic Plan to improve its products, create a digital organization and know its customers better — each of which have a technology component.

  • Southridge School

    Board Governance Project

    With a new Board Chair, a recently completed Campus Master Plan, and about to embark on CAIS re-accreditation, Southridge, a co-ed, K-12 independent day school located in South Surrey, BC, engaged Berlineaton to explore “what’s next” as a Board.

  • UnionWare

    Charting a Course for the Future

    UnionWare, a Winnipeg technology company providing membership system for nearly 150 unions representing 4.5 million employees in Canada and the US, reached out to Berlineaton to help them chart their course for the future.

  • Upper Canada College

    Strategic Directions – TOWARDS 2029

    We assisted the new Head of School, Board and Senior Leadership Team at Upper Canada College (UCC) with the development of the school’s 10-year plan, culminating in 2029—their 200th anniversary. This work included an end-to-end strategy project with extensive stakeholder consultation.

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    • The emphasis on Strategic Management was important to us, since we didn't want a plan that sat on the shelf after several months of strategic thinking. I found that Berlineaton didn't come to our organization with a preconception of what our strategic plan would look like, but they made an authentic effort to understand the people in our community and be in tune with its ethos, its goals and its people. They gained trust and confidence and continue to work with us on the implementation of our tactical plan.

      Head of School in Victoria,

      British Columbia

    • I have engaged Berlineaton over the years to support a few different initiatives. I have found they bring very strong skills and tools in the areas of strategic planning, change management, facilitation, problem solving, project management, engagement management and team building.

      Associate Deputy Minister,

      BC Government

    • Your efforts in guiding the robust planning process that has resulted in UCC’s Strategic Directions were quite simply extraordinary; your partnership was integral to any success achieved. Thank you. I hope you are as proud of the final product as we are.

      Sam McKinney, Head of School,

      Upper Canada College

    • Overall, I would highly recommend Berlineaton for anyone seeking superior results in the field of facilitated, team-based process improvement that blend a focus on more task focused business results with the team, and overall people, engagement required to promote higher levels of ownership and execution success.

      Executive Director,

      BC Government

    • Berlineaton helped me work through staffing changes and a significant workload immediately following the COVID-19 outbreak. Our coaching sessions were very much appreciated, and I was able to re-focus on the strategic goals of our organization, while still leading my team and day-to-day operations. Being able to improve my leadership competencies and navigate the last few months was invaluable to say the least.

      Executive Director,

      Not-for-Profit Organization in British Columbia

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