Rethinking Possibility
Making transformative and sustainable change possible.
We collaborate with you to achieve strategic, meaningful, and enduring social and organizational change.
Mobilizing
resources, people, relationships, so that you can initiate and accelerate systematic change.
Co-Creating
strategies and solutions to intractable problems.
Transforming
cultural norms so that you can break out of unproductive behaviour patterns and create an environment that fosters trust, learning and innovation.
Leadership Learning
designing individual and team learning processes that strengthen resilience, enhance employee and stakeholder engagement and foster innovation for practical, durable results.
Coaching
supporting leaders to act with humility and courage, and to increase personal effectiveness with staff and partners.
We work with governments, not-for-profits, health care systems, foundations and multi-lateral organizations engaged in complex change initiatives — locally, nationally and internationally.
Projects we are involved in
Supporting innovators working to scale up early child development programs in countries around the world, including India, Brazil, Lebanon, Kenya, and Vietnam.
Engaging health care leaders and key stakeholders to build personal resilience and a stronger collective capacity to lead health care services through periods of instability and resource shortages.
Using a feminist approach to transform organizational culture, so that staff are more engaged and the organization is better able to achieve its mission.
Teaching leadership, organization development, collaborative leadership, strategic thinking and other courses for executives from all sectors through the Schulich Executive Education Centre (York University) and at Telfer Executive Education Programs (University of Ottawa).
Advising public sector and non-profit leadership teams seeking to act more strategically to address new opportunities and emerging challenges.
Creating blended learning strategies for senior leaders of national governments and the UN. Key elements include greater self awareness and collaborative leadership skills that support greater effectiveness in volatile and complex contexts, e.g. protecting and supporting vulnerable refugee populations.
Designing meetings and other processes that assist multiple groups to overcome conflict and to work together on a common vision for change.
Our commitment to you
Social Impact: We commit to advancing equity, dignity and justice. We seek ideas and interventions that strengthen inclusion and belonging across networks, communities and organizations.
Learning community: We are intentional about convening truly collaborative environments that share learning and value openness and trust.
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Who we are
Ingrid Richter
Ingrid is Executive-in-Residence at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada and Partner in Threshold Associates. In these capacities she designs and delivers leadership development programs for clients from all sectors locally and globally. She has also taught leadership and innovation programs at the University of Toronto, Waterloo University and Royal Roads University, in Canada.
In her consulting practice she focuses on supporting strategic change and social innovation. She is particularly interested in organizational learning and stakeholder engagement, particularly in the UN, international NGO and public sector contexts. In the last 10 years she has designed and facilitated programs involving over 1500 senior leaders from across Canada, Europe, Asia the Caribbean and Africa.
She is often called upon to support complex change and multi-stakeholder engagement strategies and is currently involved in supporting a global initiative supporting innovation in early childhood development, in partnership with Grand Challenges Canada, the Harvard Centre for the Developing Child and the University of Toronto.
Ingrid holds degrees in Psychology and Adult Education. She completed her PhD in Management Learning at Lancaster University where she explored the intersection between executive learning and organizational learning.
Ingrid lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Ray Gordezky
Ray is a partner in Threshold Associates. He has over 30 years of experience in design and facilitation of large scale organization and community based change processes. He has created a number of strategic change and learning initiatives, dialogic approaches to transforming conflict and complex challenges, and strategic learning approaches with public, not-for-profit, business and international organizations. Ray is currently involved in supporting a global initiative supporting innovation in early childhood development, in partnership with Grand Challenges Canada, the Harvard Centre for the Developing Child and the University of Toronto.
Ray holds a Masters in Public Health Administration, and has published chapters in The Change Handbook, 2nd Edition, The Handbook of Large Scale Change, and has authored a chapter in the 2015 book, Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change.
Ray lives in Toronto, Canada.
Contact us.
ingrid@thresholdassociates.ca
ray@thresholdassociates.ca