Horse Sense for Leaders

Horse Sense for Leaders is offered by Participative Designs Inc.

Participative Designs has been helping organizations tap into their greatest resource - the talented people who work there since 1991. We have an exemplary track record for creating true cultural change and genuine performance improvement through leadership training, team effectiveness consulting, employee engagement and healthy workforce programs and services. Our Toolkit includes appreciative inquiry, whole system change, polarity analysis, productive conversations, Lean Leadership, 360 degree feedback, open space facilitation, coaching and more.

Our clients represent a wide range of public and private sector organizations from banking, energy, technology, pharmaceuticals, auto and social services sectors.

For more information about other PDI services visit our website: www.pdesigns.com

Sharon Quarrington
Lead Facilitator and Program Designer

Sharon Sharon is both an experienced organization development professional and a skilled horse trainer.

Sharon has an extensive background in the design and delivery of management training programs in the areas of organizational change and innovation, leadership, human relations, group dynamics, management, organization design, appreciative inquiry, polarity analysis, organizational learning and organizational culture.

Sharon has presented workshops for the International Assocaition of Facilitators, the Canadian Society for Training and Development, the Association for Creative Change and Organizational Development and has been a member of the steering committee for the Open Space Institute of Canada.

Bruce D. Craig,
Principal, Participative Designs Inc.

Bruce Bruce is a senior consultant, trainer and facilitator who has worked with a wide range of public and private sector organizations to train leaders, facilitate meetings, implement changes and build healthy work environments. He has been designing and delivering custom leadership and performance improvement programs for over 25 years.

Bruce has trained front-line leaders, implemented employee involvement and continuous improvement programs, conducted team building sessions and facilitated a wide range of strategic planning and change implementation sessions. Unique in his approach to organizational and cultural change is his use of "whole systems" methodologies as the basis for involving a "critical mass" of those impacted by a change. The results have been faster, more effective implementation of changes and improvements.

His expertise includes: adult education, organizational development, systems thinking, change management methods, team building, Future Search Conferences, Open Space facilitation, Myers-Briggs preferences, Appreciative Inquiry, Polarity Management, and Whole Scale Change.

His clients include: Shell Canada, Copperweld Canada, Canadian General Tower, CIBC Leadership Centre, International Wallcoverings Inc., Petro Canada, Sunlife, the Centre for Independent Living (Waterloo), the Hamilton School Board (SAGE Alternative School program), Public Works and Government Services Canada, HRDC-PEI Region and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Wrigley Canada.