What We Do
Arete Initiative helps leaders realize that better strategy, innovation and organizational design is possible when people are engaged, curious and collaborative.
Our services
Our services are highly customized to each partner’s unique context, though typically the processes that we curate can fall under 3 key types: Growth Partners, Social Innovation Design, Knowledge Producer.
Growth Partners guiding leaders and teams to new ways of innovating, working and practicing strategy that fits their purpose and impact goals.
Social Innovation Designers facilitating multi-stakeholders groups to innovate and collaborate for a whole system to move towards a sustainable future.
Knowledge Producer / Researcher contributing to the field of personal and organizational leadership, and anchoring to credible research to help our partners sort out the signals from noise.
Training Courses
Growth Partner Training
Organizational leaders recognize the importance of strengthening their leaders' management skills, competencies and systems through management training.
As social and management innovation leaders, Arete Initiative views the deliberate evolution of management practices as a key vehicle to evolve leaders and their leadership skills and overall organizational growth.
Through the Leadership In Management Innovation Training Course, Arete Initiative will guide your organization's leadership group through an array of modules that offer skill-building experiences for leadership growth by practicing innovation in management skills.
Our Process
It is more important than ever to be responsive and to innovate in order to stay competitive in today’s market. Arete Initiative creates opportunities for leadership and their teams to collaborate and learn to practice working differently. We give careful attention to creating an engaging, fun and effective experience that delivers results – sometimes expected, but most times more than imagined!
Our Team
Our team is what separates us. There is a depth of experience, diverse skillset and a shared passion to become better leaders and enablers of higher potential
Tesimonials
“Arete Initiative’s team are thoughtful designers, strategists and highly skilled facilitators. Their authenticity is their hallmark, as they are immensely trustworthy and likeable. We know we can always count on stakeholders to be carefully stewarded and actively engaged by Arete Initiative, and having this kind of confidence in a partner makes every undertaking easier.
Chad Park, Vice President, Sustainability & Citizenship, The Cooperators
"The Arete Initiative team completed an assessment of SkyFire's management practices with a goal of identifying key areas for further management training and development. The team engaged our management team in a way that was meaningful and fun! Our staff were excited and grateful for the opportunity to work with Arete and provide their input. The work completed has laid a strong foundation for the creation of our management development program we reflect on the results regularly as we carry this work forward. Thank you for setting us on the right path and we look forward to working with you in the future!"
David Vonesh, President, SkyFire Energy
“We had the pleasure of working with Arete Initiative to design and deliver a strategic exploration of our team’s culture and strengths. Their thoughtful integration of a variety of concepts empowered us to co-create a shared vision of our team as a collective that is greater than the sum of us as individuals. Arete Initiative’s mindfulness and highly collaborative nature enable them to be powerful catalysts of change that remains authentic to the team."
Dexter Lam, Calgary Economic Development
“Arete Initiative is working with ET Group energizing a variety of roles related to advancing the practice of distributed authority and self-organization. They have nourished capacity that allows us to be more effective and impactful in our work, helping us further step into our full organizational potential.”
Dirk Propfe, President and CEO, ET Group
Our Current and Past Clients
Let’s create opportunities for your leadership and your teams to collaborate and learn to practice working differently.
