QHA, First Impressions Last, is a hospitality-focused business consultant based in Kelowna, BC. Founded in 2017, the company operates with a small team dedicated to delivering exceptional results. QHA emphasizes adaptability and openness to new ideas and technologies in its approach.

The company specializes in hospitality assessments, focusing on staff engagement, staff retention, and customer recognition and satisfaction. QHA also offers Employee Quality Recognition (EQR) assessments to enhance employee involvement and improve customer experiences, ultimately driving profitability for businesses in the hospitality sector. QHA serves a growing clientele within this industry and maintains an active presence on social media to share insights into its services and mission.

SYRUS Reputation is a consulting firm based in Montréal, established in 2013. The company specializes in strategic advisory services, focusing on agility and tailored solutions to help organizations and leaders tackle complex business challenges. With over a decade of experience, SYRUS leverages its understanding of the Canadian business landscape to deliver performance-driven outcomes.

The firm offers a range of services, including business consulting, corporate reputation management, public affairs and government relations, and communications and brand management. SYRUS is known for its customized approach, ensuring that each project is tailored to meet the specific needs of its clients. The company emphasizes a performance-centric culture, utilizing rigorous analysis and measurable impact to address issues effectively.

SYRUS values genuine commitment, courageous advocacy, and results-driven strategies, positioning reputation as a key asset for value creation. The firm serves a diverse client base across various sectors, focusing on reputation leverage, crisis management, and regulatory navigation.

O Trade is a leading Canadian socio-economic development firm that specializes in designing and implementing strategic ESG and sustainability solutions. Our goal is to foster collaboration with communities, investors, local governments, and stakeholders and create innovative solutions that deliver value and ensure socio-economic benefits. We believe that respect and collaboration are the keys to the success of our projects, and we are committed to pursuing productivity and sustainable development.

Our areas of expertise include social and risk assessment, solutions and implementation, evaluation and monitoring, and training. Specifically, we offer the following:

· Social and risk assessments include ESG 360 rapid assessment, social impact assessment (SIA), and human rights considerations throughout the project lifecycle, including exploration, operation, and closure. Lately we expanded to TASR – Tailings Area of Social Risk
· Solutions and implementation, such as stakeholder engagement, socio-economic inclusion for employment and supply chains, and information disclosure.
· Evaluation and monitoring, ensuring compliance with international standards such as IFC, EBRC, GISTM, and TSM.
· Training, building internal capacity for management and staff and providing a common understanding of external stakeholders, including local governments and investors.

At O Trade, we are committed to helping industries achieve their goals while positively impacting society. We accomplish this by creating innovative solutions and promoting socio-economic progress through ESG practices and social engagement.

6temik Inc. is a management consulting firm based in Montréal, Quebec, established in 2002. The company specializes in international business expansion and capacity building, helping organizations navigate global markets with strategic deployment and operational support. As a certified women-owned business by WEConnect International, 6temik emphasizes diversity and inclusion in its operations.

The firm offers a range of services, including international deployment, where it assists companies in building and hiring teams for overseas operations. It also provides capacity building expertise to help businesses scale globally, focusing on cross-cultural adaptation and risk management. Additionally, 6temik delivers tailored consulting solutions for Canadian businesses looking to diversify their export markets beyond the U.S. The company actively shares insights on international business trends, highlighting its commitment to supporting small-to-medium enterprises in their global growth efforts.

Solutions are not solving and we think we know why. Solvable works with clients and communities to make the behavioural and structural changes that solve for the actual complexity of the world and their roles within it. We facilitate through in-person and virtual rooms that enable personal and collective interrogations of thinking, patterns, and structures. We design blueprints and corresponding rooms that confront the challenges of adaptation, and to constructively respond to group frictions. As an intentionally small team of senior practitioners, we maintain intimate, co-developmental, and right relationships with our clients and broader ecosystems. We walk the path together to become better stewards.

Welcome To Fresh Management

Since 1996,Fresh Management has been dedicated to providing our clients with first-rate service through an understanding of their environment and unique requirements. We know our clients.

Our Fresh Management Talent Acquisition team partners with our clients to attract and attain the best talent. Our Fresh approach is a retainer based flat fee service that significantly lowers customer’s cost per hire, often by more than 50 % of traditional approaches. Our flat fee retainer approach allows our Fresh team to focus on a client’s needs and achieve milestones in the search for the right candidate.

Our consulting arm also provides a value approach, which allows out clients to achieve success while keeping an eye to the bottom line. With an integrated recruiting arm. We are able to leverage talent on the bench to meet any project requirement or to lend some expertise in any specific area. By utilizing outside talent on a demand basis we get you the expertise needed without the overhead of a full-time resource. This provides high value and ensures that we are always utilizing the best talent possible for each situation.

Every project, every placement and every client is different, yet our approach is consistent.

Blue-Mark Management Consultants is a Toronto-based consultancy focused on organizational effectiveness. Founded in 2008, the company helps business leaders address organizational challenges, improve effectiveness, and implement complex changes. Their goal is to enhance the capabilities of leaders and teams to drive business success.

The company offers a variety of services, including facilitation and alignment to improve decision-making, operating model optimization to enhance value generation, and change management to support critical business agendas. Blue-Mark also provides industry-specific solutions tailored to the healthcare, finance, and technology sectors, addressing the unique challenges faced by organizations in these fields.

By engaging a diverse set of stakeholders, Blue-Mark aims to deliver meaningful solutions that align people, processes, and expectations within organizations.

LumiGroup is a Montreal-based company founded in 1995, recognized as Quebec’s largest lighting agency. The company specializes in creative lighting solutions for architectural, interior, and exterior design projects, representing a diverse range of lighting manufacturers from both Quebec and global markets.

LumiGroup provides comprehensive design and distribution services, including support for industrial and architectural design of lighting systems, tailored distribution of lighting fixtures, and integrated electrical and manufacturing solutions. Their focus is on lighting fixtures and systems suitable for commercial, residential, and institutional applications, emphasizing customizable solutions to meet client needs.

The company serves architects, designers, and developers across Quebec and beyond, fostering partnerships with lighting manufacturers and construction professionals.

Founded in 2009, Espaces temps is a consulting NPO that supports public and collective organizations wishing to collaborate with communities to create models of action and organization that meet their common aspirations.

Our approach is centered on knowledge mobilization. We work in cultural, academic and civic environments, offering services in strategic planning, service design and business modeling.

Our collaborative approach allows us to develop strategies that are multidimensional and collective. Through consultation, we gather new knowledge to guide your decisions and projects.

By valuing the knowledge of communities, we aim to increase their role as actors of change and social innovation. In short, we aim for impact!