Offerings
Services to Support Your Vision
At Ember Leaf Consulting Inc., our offerings fall into two interconnected service areas: Strategic Planning & Engagement and Emergency Management & Crisis Leadership. If you're unsure whether your project falls within either category, please don't hesitate to give us a call.
We'd love to hear about what you're passionate about and if we can't help, we are happy to refer you to someone who can!
Strategic Planning & Engagement
At Ember Leaf Consulting, we design and facilitate meaningful engagement—in-person or virtual—that meets people where they are. Whether it’s a small group conversation or a large community gathering, every session is grounded in cultural safety, relational accountability, and accessible dialogue.
We work alongside governments, organizations, and cross-sector partnerships to move complex work forward through inclusive engagement, collaborative planning, and clear strategic roadmapping. From leadership retreats and service agreements to co-developing policy with community voices at the table, we help create the conditions for trust, clarity, and collective action.
As part of our commitment to capacity building, we work to strengthen local expertise throughout each project, while also supporting clients to identify and access the training, funding, and implementation supports needed to sustain their vision and long-term goals.
Emergency Management & Crisis Leadership
Ember Leaf Consulting supports governments, organizations, and communities in strengthening emergency mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. We help establish recovery governance structures that centre human impacts during re-entry and beyond, grounded in collaborative planning and values-based leadership.
We provide practical, trauma-aware support to your emergency program, including strategic planning, training for senior and elected officials, after-action reviews, EOC support, and crisis communications. We specialize in developing and operationalizing partnerships based on shared responsibility between First Nations, local governments, provinces, territories, and the federal government.
We also design culturally safe evacuee care strategies and offer team training, including delivering the Cultivating Safe Spaces in Emergency Management course. Through coaching and wellness planning, we help leaders navigate crisis with clarity, compassion, and care.
Engagement and Facilitation
Strategic Planning, Road Mapping & Collaborative Governance
Strategic Planning, Road Mapping & Collaborative Governance
Whether you're seeking community buy-in, fulfilling collaboration requirements, or strengthening intergovernmental relationships, Ember Leaf Consulting delivers values-based engagement that builds trust and drives collective action.
Our facilitation supports strong cross-agency relationships and delivers practical, community-informed outcomes through:
- Community engagement rooted in cultural safety, local knowledge, and lived experience
- Relationship-based facilitation using circles, dialogue, and strength-based approaches
- Negotiation frameworks and secretariat support for multi-party collaboration
- Implementation and action planning to move commitments into practice
- "What We Heard / What We Are Doing" reports, debriefs, and after-action reviews to support transparency and continuous improvement
We meet people where they are—and specialize in making sure that no one gets left behind and that every voice has a seat at the table.
Strategic Planning, Road Mapping & Collaborative Governance
Strategic Planning, Road Mapping & Collaborative Governance
Strategic Planning, Road Mapping & Collaborative Governance
We support clients in building clear strategies, shared structures, and collaborative agreements that move complex work from vision to implementation. Our approach weaves together strategic planning, funding alignment, and governance design, ensuring that plans are both actionable and rooted in strong relationships.
Services include:
- Strategic and operational planning for emergency management, recovery, climate readiness, and organizational growth
- Multi-year roadmaps grounded in community values and aligned with policy and funding opportunities
- Funding options analysis, investment planning, and resource prioritization
- Co-creation of MOUs, service agreements, communication protocols and statements of cooperation
- Development of cross-jurisdictional frameworks and multi-agency coordination models
- Partner alignment sessions, conflict-sensitive facilitation, and onboarding support for collaborative teams.
We help teams build the structures and trusted relationships for positive change.
Team Alignment and Culture Building Retreats
Strategic Planning, Road Mapping & Collaborative Governance
Team Alignment and Culture Building Retreats
Ember Leaf Consulting designs retreats that rejuvenate leaders, reconnect teams, and reignite purpose in high-performing environments. In today’s fast-paced systems, teams are often stretched thin without time to pause, reflect, or realign.
We create guided experiences that blend leadership coaching, wellness practices, and strategic alignment to foster trust, creativity, and collaborative clarity.
Each retreat is tailored to your team’s unique goals, offering space to slow down, reconnect, and return to work with renewed focus and shared purpose. When teams feel safe, seen, and grounded, they’re better equipped to lead change and avoid burnout.
Our services include:
- Leadership and team retreats to support renewal, reflection, and alignment
- Custom agendas that balance strategy, creativity, and well-being
- Event coordination and full facilitation support
- Team culture and values integration
- Nature-based elements and, where appropriate, Indigenous cultural teachings
- Follow-up action planning to ensure momentum and accountability
We remind people they are human beings, not just human doings—and we create space for them to lead from that place.
Emergency Management Advisory Services
Emergency Operations Centre and Crisis Communication Supports
Emergency Operations Centre and Crisis Communication Supports
Ember Leaf Consulting supports governments, companies, and communities to strengthen emergency mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery through clear strategy and collaborative planning.
We offer practical, values-based support across all phases of emergency management, including:
- Strategic planning and emergency program development
- Crisis communications protocols
- After-action reviews and debrief facilitation
- Advisory support for mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities
- Equity- and Indigenous knowledge–centred approaches to evacuee care
- Establish recovery governance structures, and put strategies in place to support human impacts through re-entry and disaster recovery
Our work ensures that plans are actionable, inclusive and aligned with local legislation, standards of practice and policies.
Emergency Operations Centre and Crisis Communication Supports
Emergency Operations Centre and Crisis Communication Supports
Emergency Operations Centre and Crisis Communication Supports
We offer specialized expertise in crisis communications and Indigenous and Local Government Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) support roles, ensuring your EOC is equipped to communicate with clarity, confidence, and care in complex situations.
Our services include:
- Crafting key messages for media, elected officials, responders, and public audiences
- Developing response communication protocols tailored to your EOC structure
- Facilitating consultation and relationship-building between First Nations and local governments
- Designing culturally safe evacuee care strategies
- Briefing and coaching for elected officials and senior leadership during emergency events
- Preparing media releases, information bulletins, and social media updates that are clear, timely, and trauma-aware
- Supporting public engagement and community trust building
Because in an emergency, how you communicate is just as important as what you do, and we make sure your leadership is heard, understood, and respected.
Cultivating Safe Spaces Training and Well-Being Strategies
Emergency Operations Centre and Crisis Communication Supports
Cultivating Safe Spaces Training and Well-Being Strategies
Ember Leaf Consulting offers coaching and wellness planning to support leaders, teams, and frontline staff facing stress and change.
Grounded in first-hand lived experience and trauma-aware practice, we foster resilience, prevent burnout, and promote leadership that honours people as they are. Kayla brings over a decade of experience, a 300-hour yoga teacher training, and numerous other teachings to offer support with humility, care, and compassion.
Our services include:
- Leadership coaching focused on resilience, reflection, and values-based decision-making
- Wellness planning for individuals and teams
- Burnout prevention strategies tailored to high-pressure roles
- Trauma-aware leadership development
- Customized delivery of Cultivating Safe Spaces, developed by Naqsmist Storytellers Inc. and Elaine Alec
- Embodied wellness practices including breathwork, grounding, and nervous system regulation delivered in-person or virtually
We support your people not as experts from afar, but by walking alongside creating space for honest reflection, steady leadership, and meaningful change.