Facilitation Services
Creating a dynamic meeting environment in which your team can flourish.
My experienced approach to meeting facilitation will keep your group engaged and inspired.
In-Depth Consulting
Comprehensive, tailored consulting to resolve your workplace challenges.
Whether you are in a crisis, or want to avoid one, I provide customized, in-depth, consulting to get you and your team back on track.
Leadership Development
Building on your leadership skills to help you achieve your business goals.
Together we can build on the strength of your leadership skills and contribute significantly and meaningfully to the health and success of your organization.
Governance, Policy & Planning
Good governance, policies, and planning really do make a difference.
While these topics might sound as boring as a straight road in the flatlands, they can actually bring excitement, vision, and a solid foundation to your work.

Facilitation Services
- Strategic planning meetings
- Board and staff retreats
- Change management projects
- Monthly meetings for community partnerships, coalitions, and small businesses

In-Depth Consulting
- Streamline systems and processes
- Assist nonprofits with leadership and fundraising dilemmas
- Help coalitions maximize their resources
- Guide small businesses and organizations through significant cultural changes
- Increase accountability and communication throughout an organization
- Reduce staff turnover and improve team dynamics

Leadership Development
- Improve leadership and management skills
- Restructure and clarify roles and responsibilities
- 1:1 coaching of executive and mid-level managers
- 1:2 coaching of executive directors and board presidents

Governance, Policy and Planning
- Clearly define your governance model
- Apply a structured approach to policy development
- Develop policies that match your values
- Have fun planning for the future
- Improve teamwork while creating more structure
Every Journey Needs a Guide.
Being a community leader is a tough job, whether you are on your own or with a team. The path to making your community a better place to live can seem endless, difficult to follow, and full of hazards and roadblocks you didn’t anticipate. Let me guide you and your team through the challenges of working together. I can help you navigate conflict and change, see through the fog to your next decision-making steps, and overcome leadership challenges that seem insurmountable.
With my guidance, you will reach your goals with greater ease. Communication and team relationships will be more nourishing and less draining. Meetings will be more interesting and productive. You and your team will thrive as you stop wasting energy and avoid the stress and burnout experienced by so many community leaders and organizations.
About Alison Sayers
Alison Kennedy Sayers is a behavioural scientist with over 17 years experience guiding leaders and teams through the wilderness of working together. As an outdoor educator, local government politician, and commercial farmer, she brings a wide breadth of experience, knowledge, and creativity to every table.
Latest Blog Posts
An Iris In a Dark Forest
January 12, 2021
It's a Sunday today, and I am busy. I'm working, even though I really try hard not to work on weekends. All I see for the month of January is endless Zoom meetings, and I’m trying to get some paperwork done before I don’t have any time to do it. I sat at my…
Leadership and Rest
September 14, 2019
Leaders are always in the hot seat. Whether you are an owner, manager, politician, or executive director, you owe it to your team and your community to be a solid and consistent leader. But continually being in the spotlight can be exhausting. I was an…
Discipline: Your Enemy or Your Friend?
September 14, 2019
I recently attended a writing workshop during which we were asked to write about discipline: What does it mean to you? Is it an ally for you or an antagonist? As entrepreneurs and leaders of organizations, it can be critical to be disciplined in our approach…
Client Testimonials
Alison was the facilitator of our Annual General Meeting. She did a superb job of managing a very difficult meeting. She handled contentious issues with great skill, focus, and clarity. We were fortunate to have her valuable expertise and skills to help us achieve a successful outcome.Vita Luthmers, Board Member, West Kootenay Women’s Association, Nelson, B.C.
Alison facilitated our management team year-end debrief and planning. We walked away with numerous ideas on guidelines and structure for future meetings, and increased awareness of interpersonal communication…we all learned new skills and developed more self-confidence in approaching other managers and our employees with difficult issues.Trevor H., Executive Assistant (former), Global Expeditions, Inc.
The work of Alison Kennedy-Sayers proved invaluable to our organization. Her thoughtful processes guided us towards greater clarity and organizational insight...just what we were looking for. In addition, her training better prepared us to handle change, conflict, and growth as individuals and an organization. We were able to work out difficult answers, but more importantly, we better know how to phrase the important questions. She is a master of her art.Bruce Hucko, Chair (former), Moab Arts Council
Working with Alison is an absolute pleasure. She is a skilled and objective consultant who makes her clients feel comfortable while encouraging them to think in new and creative ways. She brings with her a wealth of experience on a wide variety of issues, is always incredibly prepared, pays attention to the details, and is able to thoroughly grasp the big picture of the situation.Laurie Schneider, Project Director, Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education
Ms. Sayers is an outstanding facilitator. She helped our Medical Staff Association Board develop a workable strategic plan, and helped us to become more effective in engaging physicians and allied professionals. She quickly identified ways for us to be focussed, deliberate, and task-oriented. Moreover, she helped us work better as a group. As a surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, an educator at University of British Columbia, and an administrator at Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, I am pleased to provide Ms. Sayers with my highest endorsement and recommendation. Ms. Sayers earned our trust quickly. She has incredible people skills, and I look forward to working with her again.Dr. Alexander L. Lee, Board Member & Treasurer, Vancouver Medical and Dental Staff Association, Vancouver Physician Staff Association