Strategic Consulting & Advisory

We help you paint a meaningful picture and bring it to life.

Bluerock brings decades of practical know-how helping organizations, collectives, and government to create impact by building their capacity to connect better and make sense of the complexity they face, centering their work in experimentation, sense-making and strategic learning, research, reflection and reflexivity.

Sense-making

We work with diverse groups to create space for listening, reflection and the exploration of meaning beyond the usual boundaries, allowing different framings, stories and viewpoints to be shared and collectively explored.

Action Learning

We support people in adopting an experimental, iterative mindset to day-to-day activities. It requires a willingness to embrace failure and a recognition that there will always be opportunities to learn, adapt and improve.

Strategy & Organizational Development and Transformation

We help transform policies, practices, and organizational structures enable sustainable change efforts. Building on our expertise in working with people and process in the context of large systems, we work to identify key points of leverage for shifting outcomes to be more relational, restorative and impactful. 

PRACTICE AREAS:

  • Strategic Thinking and Planning

  • Risk Management

  • Policy design

  • Strategic Learning and Evaluation

  • Purpose led organizing

Systems Change & Collective Impact

We ignite dialogue, co-creation and collective creativity, tackling complex problems in organization, schools/universities and communities. Through an action learning approach, we help keep learning central, which is critical for governments and changemakers dealing with complex challenges.

CAPABILITIES:

  • Complex Facilitation for Collective Impact 

  • Conversation Design 

  • Transformative Process Design

  • Piloting new approaches that explore new visions for services, initiatives and systems.

  • Building Learning Cultures 

  • Collaborating with partners and collectives to test and learn 

  • Research design

  • Governance for collective Impact 

  • Issue Framing

Action Learning as Implementation

Tackling complex issues takes time and commitment, along with the creativity, curiosity and the rigour to build something that lasts.

Building a gender-responsive men’s mental health engagement strategy.

Men & is a collaborative of individuals, professionals and organizations supporting mens relational and mental wellbeing. It all started 6 years ago with an action inquiry project to understand how to better engage men to support their mental and relational health and reduce violence in their families and communities.

The Men & project launched in 2021 with a vision of a future where boys & men’s emotional, mental, and relational wellbeing is bravely supported. Our mission is to transform communities by promoting healthy, respectful manhood, and connecting men to the information and support they need to heal, grow and cause less harm to themselves and others.

Our work has included:

  • Research & Development

  • Dialogue and facilitation

  • Culture and organizational development

  • Network building

  • Designing tools and learning and resources

  • “Jeff is a thought leader in the area of social change and innovation. I admire Jeff’s ability to process quickly and make sense out of complex situations to find ways to deal with some of our most perplexing social problems.”

    — JANAY FERGUSON, OWNER, LITEHOUSE CONSULTING INC.

  • “Jeff has been invaluable to our teams as a very skilled and thoughtful facilitator. He was able to engage and lead our team members through a re-design process that resulted in new, creative, and innovative approaches to the issue."

    — GILLIAN WEAVER-DUNLOP, DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES, CWES

  • “Jeff’s approach strikes a good balance between slowing down the organization so that it can become truly reflective and gathering up the threads in a way that gives it direction for going forward.”

    — JOHN BURTON, LL.B., M.B.A., M.DIV., PH.D., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BUSINESS ETHICS, UBC

  • “With a passion for thinking big, asking tough questions and engaging complexity – Jeff is a gifted leader with a wonderful ability to help others find order amidst chaos. His ability to create space for exploration and dialogue for groups and individuals allow for rich experiences of discovery and sense-making.”

    — MIKE GROGAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTEGRAL ORG

  • “Jeff is my ‘go to’ guy for strategy, insight and feedback on what it takes to nurture health and vitality into organization(s) looking to be renewed. Jeff is a refreshingly focussed listener, able then to connect his client(s) needs with a wealth of relevant knowledge, insight and experience – all of which can be attested to first hand.”

    — CHRIS LOCK, FORMER PRESIDENT, THE MENTOR GROUP

  • “Jeff’s approach encourages a deeper level of thoughtfulness. He is insightful in his thought process and feedback, supporting both myself and our agency to engage with greater intentionality and creativity.”

    — ANDREA SILVERSTONE, CEO, SAGESSE