Whether your challenge is a fear of the rules surrounding lobbying or charitable activities, insecurity around how to build your plan, or just not knowing where to start, we can help.
Workshops and customized training are available.
Sometimes, it's not a matter of your confidence, or the need for a strategy.
Sometimes, there just aren't enough hours in your day to pursue an engagement strategy on top of the work you already do.
We offer a Fractional Executive solution to allow you top-notch expertise without taking on a full salary and benefits package.
We can help you Negotiatiate the Change you want
We can help you build your engagement strategy - including elements such as: goal-setting, identification of internal and external champions, relationship development, and implementation calendars- all based on the good work you're already doing.
Strategy Development
Change on Staff
Engagement Training and Development
OUR SUCCESS STORIES
Examples of How We Help Negotiate Change
Negotiating Change helped CASP make World Suicide Prevention Day in 2016 a record-breaking success. It's not that we did anything differently, but Negotiating Change helped us ensure that everything we did received the most attention possible from decision-makers.
I would encourage any NGO or charity frustrated with their engagement efforts to consult Negotiating Change. They made it fun and simple for us, and it returned results.
-- Tana Nash, Executive Director
Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
Negotiating Change came in to help JA Waterloo Region when we were up against a tight grant application deadline with a substantial funding opportunity. We didn’t have time or resources to pull a great proposal together by the deadline.
They sat down with me to understand our business and project, went away and completed relevant research, identified the appropriate funding stream and completed the application. Throughout the process, they kept in touch and incorporated our comments and feedback.
-- Karen Gallant, President & CEO
Junior Achievement Waterloo Region
Avvey Peters
Avvey Peters is Vice President, External Relations with Communitech. She focuses on strategic communications, advocacy, and partnership development to advance the Waterloo Region tech sector. Avvey is also cross appointed as Managing Director of the Canadian Digital Media Network – a group of more than 25 innovation hubs across the country, which focus on supporting the growth and success of small and mid-sized digital companies in Canada.
Before joining Communitech in 2007, Avvey spent seven years working in external relations at the University of Waterloo, where she held various roles, including senior director of government relations, associate director of communications and public affairs, and speechwriter and strategic communications officer for the president of the University. She has also worked as a news writer for CTV Southwestern Ontario. Avvey is a former executive director of the Business & Education Partnership of Waterloo Region, a charitable organization that connects youth to careers, with particular emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. She is a member of the boards of directors of Wavefront, and the Technology Councils of North America, and sits on the Advisory Council to the Chair of the English Department at the University of Waterloo.
Avvey holds a Master of Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, and a degree in Rhetoric and Professional Writing from the University of Waterloo. She has also completed the Ivey Executive Program at the Richard Ivey School of Business.
OUR TEAM
"I’ve been promoted to ‘Stakeholder Relations Officer’ – your training has taken on a whole new level of importance for me!"
-- Aaron Francis, Stakeholder Relations Officer
University of Waterloo Federation of Students
Most recently, David worked on Parliament Hill, where he was the project lead on MP Harold Albrecht’s ground-breaking suicide prevention legislation: the Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention. David also led research and communications efforts for the Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care, an all-party group dedicated to advancing how Canada treats our most vulnerable citizens.
David Drewe
Born in Copper Cliff, Ontario, David Drewe grew up in Northern Ontario before moving to Waterloo to attend the University of Waterloo to study Political Science and Marketing.
Throughout his career, David has worked as a strategic communications advisor, advocate and spokesperson, as well as a media relations and government relations professional for numerous not-for-profit and charitable organizations, including the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention and the Friends of Ontario Universities. David also edited a magazine about post-secondary education in Canada, and has served as Communications Director for several political campaigns.