Strengthening organizations and their leaders
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. She is a skilled facilitator with extensive experience leading diverse groups of people through consensus-based decision-making processes. Raissa is an ICF-credentialed 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 Coaching
Raissa works with her coaching clients to develop strategic leadership skills, achieve clarity, and realize transformative professional and personal growth.
Facilitation
Raissa listens closely to your facilitation 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 leadership to help you take your organization to the next level while considering your unique organizational context and culture.
Testimonials
“I received invaluable coaching from Raissa, which has helped me develop a much more balanced and mindful approach to work.
Thank you for guiding me toward a healthier, more sustainable way of working!
Renata Woodward, Executive Director Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts
“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
“There are so many excellent reasons to hire Raissa! She is extraordinary at taking complex problems or processes and carving out an effective, doable, path forward.”
Maggy Burns, Executive Director
Ecology Action Centre
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