Strategic advisor, business builder, professional problem solver and incurable optimist
Founder of The Positivist Group, a band of merry seasoned professionals transforming visionary organizations across Canada. #people #culture #performance
Grant funding can accelerate good work or quietly destabilize an organization. This newsletter breaks down the maturity required before pursuing grants, why readiness matters more than eligibility, and what provincial and federal governments are actually funding.
If you deliver services, you still offer a product. This post explains why thinking of services, programs, and even construction jobs as products helps organizations clarify what they do, protect capacity, and grow with intention.
Project-based grants can fuel growth or quietly distort it. This post explores how funding strategy should inform business strategy, using Positivist Group’s 8 Dimensions to help nonprofits and for-profits pursue grants without losing focus, capacity, or coherence.
Strategy collapses when it ignores context. The same decision can create momentum in one organization and chaos in another. At Positivist Group, we help leaders make decisions that fit real-world constraints, people dynamics, and the complexity of growth.
Culture reflects what organizations teach people through decisions and systems. This post explores culture as the cumulative outcome of intentional or reactive organizational growth.
Do we pursue this funding opportunity, even if it stretches our capacity?
Do we formalize this program, knowing it will change how we operate?
Do we say yes to this partnership, or protect focus and say no?
As organizations grow, structure often lags behind reality. This post explores structure as a key dimension of intentional organizational growth, shaping clarity, accountability, and how work actually gets done.
As organizations grow, people feel the impact first. This post explores how roles, expectations, and capacity shape intentional organizational growth and whether growth is experienced as sustainable or exhausting.
Governance is not about control. It is about clarity. This post examines how governance evolves as organizations grow, and why it matters more than many leaders expect.
As organizations grow, clarity about what they offer often becomes harder to maintain. This post explores how product decisions shape focus, identity, and sustainability as part of intentional organizational growth.