About Us

Our mission is to help 1M+ business leaders install a modern management system that unlocks capacity and creates better outcomes for all.

We help leaders create transformative change by bringing an innovative approach to how they run their business.

Leaders and companies are operating in a time of unprecedented complexity, challenging us to innovate how we plan, communicate, and execute. Perpetuating traditional top-down organization structures, where leaders choose the priorities and make the big decisions is a root cause of the ineffectiveness seen in this new environment. A fundamental shift in leadership is clearly needed.

AiMS stands for Appreciative Inquiry as a Management System. A management system that leverages the power of asking questions that value people, are of value, and add value to the company in order to build organizational capacity and achieve excellence.

Most leaders today recognize that the core of their business is people. And while they may have the willpower to operate differently, until now they have been missing the waypower. AiMS is the waypower !

If you are ready to embrace a new way of thinking, talking, strategizing, and acting – AiMS provides you with system and the tools to rapidly reconfigure the conversations you are ALREADY having into ones that value diversity, equity, and inclusion. In one-to-one settings, group environments, and in high stake strategic situations.

AiMS is a learn-while-doing approach that allows companies to build capacity and expand their impact.

AiMs allows leaders to unleash the full capacity of their teams to bring out the best in their business for ALL stakeholders. We’ve shared this innovative management system with thousands of leaders, at organizations like Fathom, Precision Communications, BeyondTrust, All Metro Tech, Canada Life, ArtsPlace Canmore, Western University, Peavey Mart, Equa, Plex, Promise One, John G Johnson, Lutes Property Services, Choice Local, QChange, Bishop Wisecarver, Stella Jones, and Paypal.

Appreciative Inquiry has been used to lead both large and small scale events that affect change in teams for over 35 years. What makes AiMS different, is that it makes Appreciative Inquiry available to leaders in every day strategic and operational conversations. Resulting in strategic, operational, and stakeholder excellence!

Do you have untapped capacity in your company?

Does your team lose energy and momentum on your plans, soon after you’ve created them?
Do your leaders struggle to get the best from their teams? Do they feel like they’re having the same conversations over and over?
Are people reluctant to contribute to group conversations?
Are you wondering why innovating and bringing new products and services to market seems so hard?
Are you leaders struggling to lead meetings that lead to outcomes that actually get done?
Do you need a management system that helps you clarify your mission and purpose, create a vision, set goals and execute on them (or do you need to upgrade your existing one)?
Are you ready to inspire and engage your people to be an inclusive, high performing company part that has an environment that works for everyone?

If you answered yes to any of these questions
- AiMS can help.

ChangeLab reports that 75% of (even the most well informed) strategies and change efforts fail…
…while 90% of Appreciative Inquiry Change approaches succeed.

AiMS will help you unlock your company’s hidden capacity to get results and set your company on the path to success.

It isn’t Top-Down, or Bottom Up.

AiMS is Participatory.

It isn’t another Training Program.
AiMS is a Learn While Doing Approach.

AiMS Leaders recognize more is possible when they unlock, build, and multiply capacity!

Why does AiMS consistently result in higher engagement, higher profits, and a higher sense of purpose at work?

Strengths
focused

They discover the stories of what’s working well and the shared hopes for what might be possible if these strengths were built upon to realize a higher purpose.

Diverse
connections

They bring voices together from across the system and connect them in surprising, inspiring, genuine conversations that fuel trust, build psychological safety, and ignite collaboration.

Generative
actions

They invite people to design, prototype, and self-organize around the changes they want to create so they can continue learning, growing, and thriving together as the work towards their desired results.

Source: ChangeLab 2022

AiMS provides practical tools and a strategic approach that help leaders transform conversations, NOW!

AiMS starts with 1 simple idea:

Leaders don’t do strategy, operations, and training, …they talk.

AiMS provides an immediate upgrade to your management habits.

It immediately enhances your current systems of planning, organizing, leading & executing.

Regardless of which playbooks you are running on today (EOS, Scaling Up, OKR’s etc)…AiMS is an upgrade that will drive better results for all stakeholders, faster!

The adoption of AiMS is:

EXPERIENTIAL – you learn it by using it to design and facilitate conversations that get things done.

ONGOING – it supports 1:1, team, and organizational level conversations and development.

SIMULTANEOUS – every AiMS conversations elevates culture, team growth, and business outcomes.

We don’t believe in “managing” people:

We believe that the role of the modern day leader is to manage the way we think about and lead conversations that are inclusive and drive inspired action.

An investment in AiMS Includes:

We’ll Help You

Gain clarity, increase ownership,
and create momentum

Build a strategic plan that drives action using a proven management system

Elevate culture, develop people, and maximize what’s possible (simultaneously)

Create Better
Outcomes for everyone!

Who are we?

With over 200 years of collective experience leading and scaling organizations, our mission is to consciously transform and help 1 Million leaders bring out the best in their people and the people they serve by 2030.

About Us

Our mission is to help 1M+ business leaders install a modern management system that unlocks capacity and creates better outcomes for all.

AiMS is a learn-while-doing approach that allows companies to build capacity and expand their impact.

Do you have untapped capacity in your company?

If you answered yes to any of these questions
- AiMS can help.