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With custom learning, change & innovation training, and leadership coaching, let’s get your team achieving more than you ever thought possible.
- Focus on the right problem
- Chart the best path
- Achieve your goals and more
When things aren’t going smoothly,
leaders need to react swiftly.
Without clarity or the right tools to move forward, leaders lose momentum and can’t drive the results they need.
We help leaders and teams clearly identify their true business problems, work to develop the right solutions, and achieve more than they ever thought possible.
3 Steps to Your Success
How it all works
Clarify
We listen to what you’re working through and help you figure out your next steps
Develop
We collaborate with you to develop a results-oriented solution to achieve your goals
Deliver
We guide the process of implementing your solution to support you and your team
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How to Lead Effective Team or Committee Meetings
We spend a lot of time with teams who want to make their meetings more effective. How to improve efficacy in team or committee meetings.
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Can hybrid teams be as effective as those with team members working side by side? Tips for effective virtual meetings.
Is Your Team Afraid to Fail at Innovation?
It’s generally accepted that a by-product of innovation is failure. And no one wants to be the one that failed. Ever. How can we improve
Client
...gave our emerging leaders the confidence and competence they needed...
Innovation is one of our strategic focus areas, so we want our leaders to be innovative thinkers with the agility and resilience to lead through various circumstances. Janice Francisco and ThinkUP™ gave our emerging leaders the confidence and competence they needed to work through tough challenges, improved collaboration and enabled them to lead and model innovative behaviours.
Kim Ellis, VP Leadership Development and Culture 
... team members became well known, respected and highly sought after...
Janice Francisco masterfully delivered the ThinkUP Framework™ and the FourSight thinking process which provided the team with the tools and capabilities needed to rise to the innovation program challenge. Building on this foundation, the innovation team members became well known, respected and highly sought after to help drive the innovation work aimed at solving real business challenges.
Robert Pope, Chief Information Officer, Canada 
I needed a way to bring together teams from across our organization.
We had to develop an innovative, global strategy and knew that our organization would be stronger by leveraging everyone’s knowledge. We needed to get teams out of silo mentality, and we needed a process, tools, and a way to get multiple teams collaborating. Janice guided our leadership team, provided training and helped us achieve more than we ever thought possible
Karen Brownrigg, Director Information Security, Canada 
... our IT Directors learned to collaborate across functions...
Significant changes to how we were structured and delivered IT services resulted in our needing help to satisfy client needs with solid business solutions. Janice Francisco helped us redesign an existing leadership development program to include their ThinkUP Framework™. Given a transparent and trusted process, our IT Directors learned to collaborate across functions, let go of the belief they had to have all the answers, and stepped into the role of thinking facilitators.
Laura Matthews, VP Human Resources and Communications 
Time is money in this world...
No one uses tech like this in meetings. Time is money in this world. With Stormz and Janice Francisco's facilitation skills, we experienced a cost-effective solution to getting better results faster.
DAVID SANTI, DEAN OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, MOHAWK COLLEGE 
...gave our emerging leaders the confidence and competence they needed...
Innovation is one of our strategic focus areas, so we want our leaders to be innovative thinkers with the agility and resilience to lead through various circumstances. Janice Francisco and ThinkUP™ gave our emerging leaders the confidence and competence they needed to work through tough challenges, improved collaboration and enabled them to lead and model innovative behaviours.
Kim Ellis, Director Leadership & Employee Engagement
... team members became well known, respected and highly sought after...
Janice Francisco masterfully delivered the ThinkUP Innovation Framework and the FourSight thinking process which provided the team with the tools and capabilities needed to rise to the innovation program challenge. Building on this foundation, the innovation team members became well known, respected and highly sought after to help drive the innovation work aimed at solving real business challenges.
Robert Pope, Chief Information Officer, Canada
... guided our leadership team, provided training ...
We had to develop an innovative, global strategy and knew our organization would be stronger by leveraging everyone’s knowledge. We needed to get teams out of silo mentality—and we needed a process, tools, and a way to get multiple teams collaborating. Janice Francisco guided our leadership team, provided training and helped us achieve more than we ever thought possible.
Karen Brownrigg, Director Information Security, Canada
... our IT Directors learned to collaborate across functions...
Significant changes to how we were structured and delivered IT services resulted in our needing help to satisfy client needs with solid business solutions. Janice Francisco helped us redesign an existing leadership development program to include their ThinkUP Framework™. Given a transparent and trusted process, our IT Directors learned to collaborate across functions, let go of the belief they had to have all the answers, and stepped into the role of thinking facilitators.
Laura Matthews, Change & Communications Specialist
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