OLA Strategy

Every time change or impact happens, it is because people like you make it happen. OLA supports change-makers through coaching, mentorship, and 1:1 strategic support.

In coaching, we draw out your strengths and vision, help you find clarity and balance, and empower you to take action. With mentorship and 1:1 support, we ensure you have all of the tools you need to succeed, for each step along the way.

You have so much to offer the world. We believe in you. In fact, the world needs you to make your impact. We are facing unprecedented social and environmental crisis and you have the ability to make a difference.

We are here to help you shine, lead with abundance, and make your impact.

Indigenous communities have been masters of strategy and abundance since time immemorial.

Does your community and/or organization have initiatives and projects that require community talent and existing staff to be inspired, mobilized, and empowered to create change?

OLA Strategy’s community-led approach supports and empowers Indigenous communities to build strategy and leadership capacity in a way that holistically supports individuals, organizations, communities, and culture, for the long term. OLA Strategy’s approach to strategy, management, and leadership capacity development is truly community-led, holistic, strengths-based, and impact oriented.

OLA’s community-led approach has coaches & mentors working with clients to draw out their experience, strengths, values, cultural teachings and protocols, and visions. From this place of strength and clarity, we then step into supporting clients to design and implement their unique strategy and leadership styles.

When desired, mentorship, training, and ongoing 1:1 support are added to ensure change-makers have the tools for each step along the way.

The result: initiatives and projects that work because they are truly community-led. Everything is created by and for the community because you are the experts of your community, culture, and visions of the future. OLA Strategy is here to support your community as the experts, change-makers, and leaders making a difference in the world.

OLA Strategy is founded on the best practices of strategic business management, project management, leadership and talent development, and social-impact.

Does your organization exist to do more than just create profit? Is your business communicating and strategically integrating the positive impacts you are making? Are your staff motivated to come to work for more than just a pay cheque? Is your organizational culture inspiring, fulfilling, fun, and defined by trust?

We help transform organizations, turning social impact and innovation into a strategic opportunity, competitive advantage, and your secret tool to disrupt the value chain within your industry. OLA Strategy works with businesses to master strategic management and infuse social and environmental impact, innovation, and community-building into the DNA of their organizations.

It is no longer enough to simply have a good business. Having an inspiring social or environmental purpose behind your brand is essential, to remain competitive, attract and retain talent, and to de-risk future operations. This kind of holistic transformation also add a new energy to your brand and corporate culture.

We work with executives, directors, managers, and staff as coaches, mentors, and consultants to ensure that the transformation is authentic and driven by your true core values.

OLA Strategy supports social purpose organizations to set up their organization for holistic, resonant, financially sustainable, and impactful operations.

The secret to success is holistic integration of your purpose throughout the organization’s culture, strategy, operations, and communications. When there is alignment of purpose and actions are in sync, the combination of community stakeholders, volunteers, staff, executives, directors, and the investors or donors are unstoppable. The change your organization is here to create is unstoppable.

The organizations changing the world, collectively known as Social Purpose or Social Impact enterprises/organizations/businesses, have many different names:

• For profit: Benefits corporations, community contribution corporations, cooperatives, etc.

• Not-for-proft: societies, community organizations, foundations, charities, NGOs, etc.

OLA Strategy is itself a social purpose organization that exists to empower change-makers and social-purpose organizations with the strategies, tools, and skills they require. OLA Strategy was born out of the desire to support organizations to create more social, environmental, and economic abundance.

OLA Strategy’s origins are in supporting Indigenous community economic development corporations - a very unique, innovative, and transformational niche within the realm of social purpose organizations.

OLA Strategy shares the best practices, free access to our network of change-makers, and connects synergies among all forms of social purpose organizations in the name of, and in pursuit of, more social, environmental, and economic abundance for all.