Nora, President &Founder

Nora’s wealth of experience and in-depth knowledge of strategic marketing and public relations enables her to tap into an extensive network of national and international media contacts including CNN, Chicago Tribune, Condé Nast Traveler, Destination, Los Angeles Times, NBC Morning Show, NBC Extra, National Geographic, New York Times, and numerous other media. Her background in event creation, tours, news conferences, receptions and symposia enable her to further extend a client’s leadership role. Nora is knowledgeable about the tourism industry, with particular strengths in culture and tourism as a development tool. As a leading, North American public relations consultant, Nora has taken many clients from relative obscurity to international recognition by generating hundreds of media stories throughout the world. She has a multi-faceted background in media, having worked on the production end of video, radio and television.

Ginger Grant

Dr. Grant is our chief culture officer – a strategist and organizational designer whose work is grounded in story as a tool for transformation. She takes her inspiration from Joseph Campbell, who helped found the graduate school where she obtained her PhD in mythological studies and depth psychology.  Ginger’s industry background is the world of mergers and acquisitions and her research work resulted in a cultural due diligence system to measure and enhance corporate culture. Her passion and expertise lies in reorienting corporate culture to accelerate creativity and innovation. Ginger’s work is aimed at leveraging the ability of individuals, teams and organizations to uncover untapped potential using design-driven innovation. She is the only Canadian in the consulting group for the Stanford Creativity in Business program and is the Managing Partner for the Canadian operations.

Author of Re-Visioning the Way We Work, her latest book, Finding Your Creative Core was published in April 2009.  She is hard at work on her next book, Re-Visioning Retirement (she has no plans to retire – thus the book!).

Gregg Arnold

Gregg Arnold is a leading marketing expert with over thirty-five years of experience in firms ranging from start-ups to ‘Fortune 500’ corporations. Gregg turns around declining sales without increasing budget, assists in developing new and profitable product lines with ease, helps organizations flourish by quickly identifying their best target markets and fine-tunes strategic messaging. Gregg’s passion is helping clients grow. Through the use of proven marketing disciplines he learned while earning his MBA at Stanford, he has extended his wealth of experience to a multitude of clients.

Ilona Belks

Ilona Beiks brings a mixed bag of tricks and resources to every project. For more than 20 years she specialized in strategic communications and project planning, holding senior management positions at Fisheries Renewal BC, BC Trade Development Corporation, Canada Post, Vancouver Stock Exchange and BC Hydro, showing leadership and innovation in public consultation; stakeholder, media, community and government relations; writing/editing; and education outreach programs.

Shifting focus to her passion for the arts, Ilona was editor of Arts Alive Magazine for eight years and wrote several documentaries for CBC Radio.  As an artist she collaborated on two City of Vancouver Public Art Projects and was an artist-in-residence at the West End Community Centre. Ilona knows first-hand the importance of community ownership, and also the realities, from the perspective of an artist and business person, of creating and delivering in the public realm.

An insightful writer, Ilona has years of experience working with art publications such as Public Art Review and Playback Magazine and First Nations artists. She coordinates the Vancouver International Writers Festival education program and is frequently invited to sit on public art and film juries.

Summer Dhillon

Summer Dhillon’s dynamic personality and high energy contributes to a low boredom threshold so she wears many hats. She relates well to people, she writes and connects with heart, and loves the business development side. She also loves to throw a party – so event management is a breeze for her, and food and wine events hit her sweet spot. She is TerraCom’s resident foodie and a co-owner of her family’s organic winery in BC’s Similkameen Valley - Chandra Estate Winery. She holds a BA with a major in psychology and BBA with a major in marketing.

Sue Leyland

Sue Leyland is one of those rare individuals whose left and right brains work equally well. She is creative as well as systematic and detail oriented, so she is equally comfortable as an artist, writer, data queen or comptroller.