Services

Your partner in Indigenous evaluation and workplace strategy

How we can support you

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.
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.
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 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.

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.

What our clients have said about working with us

Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers

Alicia’s copyediting work is incredible. The amount of care and attention to detail that she puts in is unmatched, and she has a gift of being able to adjust her editing style to fit the style of the author. I’ve worked with her several times now, and her work is quick, thorough, and done with care.

Dr. Lucy Fowler
University of Manitoba and Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers

Editing, fact-checking, and sensitivity reading

I edit online content for a major Canadian visitors’ and convention bureau, and contacted Alicia Hibbert in search of sensitivity reading. Alicia provided informed, professional feedback within my less-than-generous timeline. She also shared detailed explanations for each copy change, which helped educate me on important contexts, history and evolution in Canadian English. I soon began sending Alicia all my fact-checking and copyediting, too. Her work (and that of her team) is always professional, contemporary and on deadline. Alicia took it upon herself to maintain a style guide for our account so she can keep track of all the little quirks of our website, including display copy, neighbourhood nicknames, hyperlink style and so forth. She is an exceptional copyeditor with a keen eye for detail, editorial nuance and tone. Her work is always in on time or earlier than assigned. She makes me look good to my client, and for that I am so very grateful!

Yuki Hayashi
Freelance Editor

Land Acknowledgement Workshop

The land acknowledgement workshop taught me so much about myself my own kinship how I show up in the world to my community and myself. It connected me to my ancestors myself and my future. I also took away the skills to bring Land acknowledgments into personal and professional settings in a way that’s appropriate and authentic. I loved being in a group setting to learn and having different styles of acknowledgments that were “beyond the script” was so impactful and important to my learning. I didn’t expect the experience to be so emotional for me and I’m thankful that it was and that the facilitators and participants provided a safe space for vulnerability and truth.

Steph Kosty
Fulcrum Executive Coaching and Consulting

Custom Train the Trainer for Building Inclusive Workplace for Métis People

I would have to say everything was impactful … Your insight, perspective and energy was superb!

David Jones
Assistant Manager
Rupertsland Institute - South

Project advisory, resource review and recommendations, and development of a process framework

We have been nothing short of thrilled with Edified Projects, their expert knowledge, experience, and thoughtfulness of approach have been invaluable to supporting our work with Indigenous communities.

Carrie Wong, Senior Manager of Learning & Training
Prosper Canada