Work creatively with your powerful questions
Immersive Workshops
Substantive Engagements
Expert Support
Our customized workshops and consultations uplift participants’ capabilities and insights. We activate powerful ways of thinking about your toughest questions using engaging simulations and proven facilitation methods. Rediscover the flow and enjoyment of peak in-person experiences.
Question Power also partners with clients, researchers, and leaders to support projects at the developing edges of regulation and sense-making. Engage with us when you want to think big while staying credible.
We work in a spirit of gratitude, rigour, curiosity, and respect.
Peak In-Person and Virtual Experiences
Complex Substantive Consultations: Treat your partners and stakeholders to consultation experiences that go far beyond the ‘pro forma download of views.’ We work with you to plan and facilitate enjoyable engagements that generate insights, strengthen trust, and support your credibility. We can help with your relatively technical or involved policy discussions.
QuestionShip: Practice your decision-making approaches and find opportunities in an immersive simulation featuring uncertainty, shifting value, disruption, cost-saving, complexity and constraint. (In-person only)
Fields of Possibilities: Traditional group brainstorming is a proven method of achieving mediocre results. There are much better ways to liberate the creativity and talents of your teams. See where your well-worn paths might branch out into refreshing new directions.
Grateful learning: Harvest lessons for the future from specific past events or experiences of an organization without blame or shame — celebrate strengths, mend damage, and build in learning.
Challenge Function: Play a powerful and effective challenge function without taking responsibility away from others. Participants explore a structured approach to testing and improving proposals. Deepen your insights into the broader effects of challenge functions in organizations.
Inquiry and Experimentation
Regulatory Futures: Envision and build the future of adaptive regulatory systems. Whether you’re interested in data regulation, ecosystem monitoring, infrastructure, or product safety, momentous changes and opportunities are emerging for both regulators and regulated organizations.
Cognitive Ecologies: Delve into sense-making systems at work and in the wider natural environment.
Contact us to discuss how we can help build your team’s insights and capacity.
Ready for uplifting team experiences and powerful insights?
We deliver customized cost-effective workshops in half-day, full-day, or 2-day formats.
We work alongside clients and experts to open up new lines of inquiry and develop action-ready insights. We can help you exert thought leadership and find your place at the forefront of your field.
We work with partners who may be on your standing offer lists.
We’d love to hear from you:
Our Team
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Eric Ward
PRINCIPAL
Eric has held senior legal and executive positions in the federal Government of Canada relating to strategic foresight, regulatory law, legal risk coordination, machinery of government, and law reform. Eric was also an Assistant Information and Privacy Commissioner for Ontario. He holds degrees in civil and common law from McGill University. Eric is a voracious learner and is fascinated by the ecology of human institutions in the broader living landscape.
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Matthew Ramsden
ASSOCIATE
Matthew brings over two decades of experience in communications, strategy, and engagement to Question Power. He excels at problem solving and a listen-first approach to collaborations – facilitating effective communication and teamwork among diverse stakeholders and partners. Matthew has worked extensively in the non-profit and social justice sectors in both the U.S. and Canada.
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Crystal Rosas
ASSOCIATE
Crystal Rosas Castellanos combines a rich artistic practice in dance and choreography with academic and organizational skills in stakeholder development, executive services, conference administration, and international studies. Multilingual and multi-talented, Crystal brings an energizing blend of artistic, practical, social, and analytical capacity to Question Power.
We don’t like to be negative, but in case you’re wondering what we don’t do:
We do not presume to tell you how to do your work or what you must decide.
We do not push a single method at every problem or context.
We do not simply repackage what your teams know and have already adequately expressed.
We do not use methods that lack rigour and backing. Even if you choose to embark on an experimental method with us, we will always be straightforward about what is known and unknown, and about the sources of our evidence and insights.
We do not use the unique creations of others without appropriate attribution, necessary permissions, and gratitude.
We will not present you with machine-generated content except where we clearly state exactly how and why.
We do not work on projects that degrade the living landscape, communities, or cultures.
Question Power supports democratic governance and does not work with or for the benefit of repressive regimes.