Edified Projects

To edify is to uplift

Edified Projects Inc. is a 100% Métis woman-owned firm with a collective of trusted expert contributors. We’re a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous professionals who are passionate about uplifting individual, family, community, and workplace wellbeing. We have experience working with public, private, and non-profit sectors as well as Indigenous communities, entrepreneurs, and writers. Our approach values community resilience, transparency (agile methods), reciprocity, and positive, supportive relations.

Get to know Edified Project Inc.’s founder, Alicia Hibbert

I’m Métis through my mom with family going back at least 8 generations in the Red River Settlement area in what is now Manitoba.

My education is in a wide range of areas that all come together in my consulting focus: cultural anthropology, humanities computing, project management, editing, and human resources. I’m passionate about using both agile and traditional project management methods for community and workplace impact.

Broadly, my work is centred on health and well-being, with a particular responsibility toward Indigenous community wellness and workplace inclusion. As a freelance editor, my focus is on working with Indigenous authors.

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How we can support you

Research

We conduct Indigenous-focused environmental scans, literature reviews, and interactive community engagement. Our methods are project- and community-specific. When gathering data, we use qualitative (interviews, focus groups, art-based methods) and quantitative (surveys, Mentimeter, dotmocracy) methods.

Program Evaluation

We design comprehensive, longitudinal program evaluations that prioritize sharing impact with your intended audience. We can work with your team to develop targets/KPIs and the tools needed to assess them, including surveys, interview or focus group guides, and other creative evaluation methods. We are comfortable with logic models and decolonizing approaches to evaluation that prioritize Elder and youth engagement in the process. Most importantly, we ensure evaluation has meaning – that it’s tied to your strategy or goals, and that it informs decision-making. Our practical focus helps ensure buy-in within your organization and maximizes resources.

Custom Training & Facilitation

Our specialty is in workplace wellbeing, inclusion and belonging, and Indigenous recruitment and retention. We evaluate your current state of training, conduct gap analyses, design tailored programs, create instructional materials, and lead training online or in-person, asynchronous or synchronous. Our training incorporates accessibility principles and Universal Design for Learning. For our off-the-shelf, self-paced, online training, go to Elevate Workplace Learning.

Editing & Writing

Editing at its most involved – and earliest in the process – looks more like coaching. You can engage us to help with structure, style, copyediting, proofreading, fact-checking, or sensitivity reading. We support your writing by providing resources and ensuring respectful language. Our key areas of expertise: Indigenous topics, Métis identity, social sciences, community based participatory research, mental wellness, and workplace health promotion & wellbeing.

Workplace Strategy

Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces are more profitable. Increasing a sense of belonging has an impact: it results in employees being 50% less likely to leave, 56% more productive, and taking 75% fewer sick days. Workplace well-being should be top of mind for employers concerned about retention since 60% of employees would leave their employer for one that offers more well-being support.

We have senior leadership experience in workplace wellbeing, EDIB, mental health, Indigenous engagement, and research and evaluation in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Our specialties include: reconciliation action plans, program reviews, strategic planning, Indigenous-centred evaluation, inclusive and Indigenous-focused recruitment and retention strategies, workplace competencies, and annual reports. We develop targeted actions plans for managers, senior leaders, human resources teams, and all employees.