Major Projects Readiness Training & Indigenous Change Management Certification
Whether you are preparing for the opportunities of major projects or leading internal transformation, these offerings are designed to help you move with more clarity and confidence. See below for details.
Major Projects Readiness Training: A strategic training experience for Indigenous governments, corporations, and business leaders preparing for governance, partnerships, negotiation, procurement, workforce, and community readiness.
May 20th, 2026 | 1 Day Strategic Training | In-Person | City-View Ballroom | Downtown Edmonton, Alberta.
The North is entering a new era of infrastructure, energy, logistics, and development. This strategic day is for professionals that want to move beyond awareness and build the internal readiness needed to shape opportunity on their own terms.
Outcomes: By the end of the day, participants will have:
Understanding of the decisions that matter most in the major projects landscape
A Two-eyed Seeing into procurement, partnerships, and economic positioning
A practical understanding of workforce and enterprise capacity needs
A strategic understanding of how to turn opportunity into lasting community benefit
An initial readiness lens to bring back to their community
Designed for Leaders, Allies, Chief and Council, Development Corporations, & Entrepreneurs.
Strategic Sessions
1. The Northern Major Projects Landscape and the Readiness Gap
A sharp look at what is changing across the North and why this moment matters. Participants will gain insight into where opportunity is building and why readiness will shape who captures long term value.
2. Governance and Jurisdiction Readiness
A focused session on the internal foundations needed to respond with clarity and strength. Participants will explore the governance and decision making needed to protect community interests and hold their position.
3. Negotiating from Strength
A practical session on entering negotiations with greater clarity, leverage, and discipline. Participants will reflect on priorities, red lines, and the conditions needed to pursue agreements that create lasting benefit.
4. Procurement Pathways and Local Value Capture
A strategic look at where value is created across contracts, supply chains, and service opportunities. Participants will gain insight into how to position Indigenous businesses for stronger and more sustained participation.
5. Workforce, Enterprise, and Community Capacity
A session focused on the people, leadership, and business capacity needed to respond to major projects well. Participants will consider what it takes to turn opportunity into lasting community strength.
6. Community Benefit, Risk, and Long Term Decision Making
A deeper look at how to assess opportunity through a broader community lens. Participants will explore how to weigh economic potential alongside risk, pressure, and long term responsibility.
7. Priority Actions and the Call Forward
A closing session that brings the day together and helps participants identify where to focus next. Participants will leave with clearer priorities and a stronger lens for moving forward.
“Opportunity alone is not enough, readiness determines who benefits.” anonymous entrepreneur
Registration and Payment: Registration is confirmed through invoice. Credit card payments are also available, with a 3% processing fee added.
Early Bird: $595 by April 17th
Regular: $695 after April 17th
Participation is limited to support a more focused and high value learning environment.
Indigenous Change Management Certification: A distinct Indigenous model for leading change in real world complexity.
This is an Indigenous grounded approach to change that helps leaders and practitioners understand how trust, history, leadership behaviour, communication, governance, and lived experience shape whether change is carried, resisted, or sustained.
Why conventional change training often falls short? Many change models focus on rollout, adoption, and structure. Those tools can be useful, but they often fail to account for the deeper realities that shape change in Indigenous and relationship based contexts. Change is not only operational. It is relational, historical, cultural, and lived. This model was created for that reality.
The Medicine Wheel as a framework for change
East - Vision, beginnings, meaning, and the call forward. This is where intention is set and the purpose of change is made clear.
South - Relationship, trust, lived experience, and human impact. This is where people feel change most directly.
West - Truth, discomfort, resistance, and discernment. This is where tension, loss, and hard learning often surface.
North - Wisdom, integration, accountability, and sustainment. This is where change is reinforced and carried forward with greater maturity.
Center - Balance, coherence, and alignment. This is where the model holds together.
The Four C’s process
The Four C’s are the process through which change is guided into practice.
Ceremony - Ground change in purpose, legitimacy, intention, and respect. Create the conditions for people to enter the work in a good way.
Connection - Map relationships, influence, trust, and the human conditions that shape movement and resistance.
Communication - Build shared understanding, role clarity, meaningful dialogue, and stronger interpretation of what people are experiencing.
Collaboration - Move from insight into action through shared responsibility, capability building, implementation, and reinforcement.
Outcomes
Assess readiness for change in an Indigenous context
Identify leadership, relational, and structural barriers
Interpret difficult responses with more care and accuracy
Map rightsholders, stakeholder, community, and trust impacts
Build a communication and engagement approach that incorporates ceremonies
Create a 30, 60, and 90 day pathway for action
2026 Training Dates | 2 Day Certification Training | In-Person | Edmonton, Alberta.
August 19th & 20th
September 16th & 17th
October 21st & 22nd
November 18 & 19th
December 2nd & 3rd
The model helps both practitioners and leaders understand their role in carrying change forward with a Two-Eyed Seeing Lens. Participants leave with tools, language, and practical next steps they can use in change management applications. A digital workbook will be provided.
Registration and Payment: Registration is confirmed through invoice. Credit card payments are also available, with a 3% processing fee added.
Early Bird: $988.00 paid 30 days before selected certification offering
Regular: $1199.00
Participation is limited to support a more focused and high value learning environment.