Case Studies

The Children’s Aid Society of the Districts of Sudbury and Manitoulin recently shifted their mandate to empowering community agencies operating within their region, to direct their own unique needs for care. Pollinate partnered with CASDSM, their anti-oppression consultants and training organization to create and cross-pollinate these new values and leadership behaviours throughout the organization.

In 2015, MentorNet, Great Minds in Stem, Pollinate, and iAAMCS worked together to amass the experiences of Black students in computing sciences across America. The result was educational content to prepare mentors to partner with Black students and to provide the students themselves the opportunity to hear other people’s stories and add their own.

Pollinate partnered with the Business Centre of Guelph-Wellington to create a custom designed multi-cohort mentoring program that served the varying needs of established small businesses, startups, and not-for-profit organizations in Guelph-Wellington.

In 2019 a Canadian municipality contracted Pollinate Networks to support its 100 leaders in the pursuit to integrate their newly discovered values into leadership practice. In early 2020, the focus of this initiative shifted towards supporting leaders working and managing through rapid change on the front lines of the global pandemic.

A US-based tech start-up with a diverse workforce consisting of employees with many different lived experiences, demographics, and socioeconomic backgrounds has experienced rapid growth over the last 3 years. This growth has resulted in a rapidly evolving workplace culture and has identified gaps in the company’s approach to diversity and inclusion.

Innovation Guelph is a Regional Innovation Centre located in Guelph, Ontario that received an investment from the Government of Canada Women Entrepreneurship Strategy to support women entrepreneurs.

A global science-based company with 30,000 team members across the globe identified a need to support career building and promotion readiness for new roles. Rising stars from across the enterprise wanted to share knowledge and gain context on the different approaches utilized by their colleagues.

The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work helps people with disabilities break down barriers to employment. In 2020, CCRW was faced with the challenge of finding a way to create meaningful virtual connections while being forced to eliminate meeting in person.

A global financial leader, MUFG offers services in banking, wealth management, securities, and capital markets, as well as personal and corporate trusts. MUFG needed to support culture and climate alignment with its front-line management after a recent merger.