Stop losing good people
to bad systems.
I work with public sector, Indigenous, and social sector organizations to build cultures of accountability, care, and institutional integrity — from the inside out.
forthestate.ca is a consulting practice, newsletter, media arm, and digital product library — built by someone who has spent a decade working inside the systems that most need changing.
Everything lives here.
Four expressions of one practice. One domain.
The Practice
Consulting · Facilitation · Workshops
Systems audits, restorative convening, and institutional integrity workshops for organizations that want to close the gap between the values they claim and the culture they've built.
Audience engineThe Record
Newsletter · Beehiiv
Public thinking on governance, grief, reconciliation, and life. Unredacted. Free to read. Worth paying for.
Reach engineThe Press
Podcast · Essays · Wren Literary Imprint
A media arm built around the intersection of governance, identity, and institutional life. Wren — the literary imprint — is where the poetry lives.
Passive income engineThe Vault
Digital products · Lemon Squeezy
Frameworks, templates, and toolkits built from a decade of real organizational work — packaged, priced, and delivered automatically.
The work worth doing
is never neutral.
Organizations serious about accountability need someone who has actually worked inside the machine. That's the work.
Systems Audit
Project fee · 2–6 weeks
Names what's actually happening inside your organization — the real version, not the polished one. You leave with a written assessment and prioritized recommendations you can act on.
From $3,500
Restorative Convening
Day rate · half or full day
For teams that have been through something — a restructure, a conflict, a loss of trust. Structured, trauma-informed, held with care. The goal isn't agreement. It's movement.
$1,200 half-day · $2,000 full day
Institutional Integrity
Workshop fee · half or full day
For leaders who want to close the gap between the values they claim and the culture they've built. Practical, honest, grounded in real organizational experience — not theory.
$1,500 half-day · $2,500 full day
The things worth saying
on the record.
Governance. Grief. Reconciliation. The absurdity of being alive inside bureaucratic systems. Published when something needs to be said. Free to read — worth paying for.
No spam. No algorithm. Just the record.
"Accountability is a love language."
forthestate.ca · Halifax, Nova Scotia