Strengthening organizations and
supporting collaboration for change
Raissa Lily Marks, Founder and Principal Consultant
With over 20 years in the non-profit sector, Raissa is a collaborative leader with a passion for fostering healthy communities and empowering the people within them. Raissa is a skilled facilitator with extensive experience leading diverse groups of people through consensus-based decision-making processes. She is a certified coach who helps her clients achieve clarity and realize transformative professional and personal growth. She is a strategic thinker with experience in policy work at both the federal and provincial levels. She currently lives in Montreal.
Offerings
Leadership and Executive Coaching
Raissa works with her coaching clients to develop strategic leadership skills, achieve clarity, and realize transformative professional and personal growth.
Workshop
Design and Facilitation
Whether for collaborative action planning, strategic campaign development, or team meetings and retreats, Raissa listens closely to your workshop needs, designs a process to meet them, and leads your group through the process with competence and skill.
Organizational Development
Raissa brings her extensive experience in non-profit management and leadership to help you take your organization to the next level while considering your unique organizational context and culture.
Testimonials
“Raissa joined our team a few weeks before we hosted a large, in-person gathering. She brought a calm and deliberate approach to planning and facilitating, and expertly guided a diverse group to a result everyone was proud to have contributed to.”
Jamie Kirkpatrick, Program Manager
Blue Green Canada
“You did a great job leading us through our strategic planning process, particularly with the challenge of working with us all remotely. An enormous thank you for all the time, effort, experience, creativity, and judgement you put into this.
I think you did a magical job.”
Sarah Van Exan, Executive Director
GreenPAC
“Raissa has a wealth of knowledge and experience to offer anyone in the non-profit sector. She helped our team understand all the fundamentals necessary to run our organization, including by-laws, policies, insurance, strategic planning, fundraising, government relations, communications, inclusion, event organizing, and succession planning.”
Chris White, Chair
Nova Scotia Environmental Network
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