About Us
We provide meeting facilitation and public consultation facilitation in Toronto, across Ontario, and throughout Canada (and virtually anywhere in the world!) We engage a variety of skilled associates. The Monarch Park Group Inc. promises that facilitation services will be provided by well-trained facilitators who either have the Certified Professional Facilitator designation, or are working towards it and are mentored/supervised by a CPF.
The Team
Karyn Dumble, MA CPF-M
Karyn Dumble, MA CPF – President & Principal Consultant
Credible, Authentic Facilitation
Karyn Dumble is an award-winning Certified Professional Facilitator – Master (CPF-M), and a well-respected facilitator of public consultations and stakeholder engagement. Toronto-based, Karyn regularly works with organizations located on both coasts of Canada and farther afield.
She has focused her career on bringing people together to create strong teams and strong communities. Karyn crafts facilitation designs from the straightforward to the complex.
Karyn loves working in high-heat situations and with diverse groups.
She often works with groups who are experiencing tension related to change. Clients regularly comment on her calmness during sessions where participants present strong emotions.
She leads stakeholder/community consultations, and assists organizations to plan strategically. She also moderates symposiums, conferences and Open Spaces.
Based in Toronto, Serving the World
Over the past few years, Karyn has facilitated public consultations for Parks Canada, for Ontario’s Dementia Strategy, Climate Change Plan, Poverty Reduction Strategy, and Police Carding.
She has led strategic planning processes for National Research Council Canada, the University of Toronto Mississauga, 8 80 Cities, Rogers Communications, and many others. She has also worked on municipal projects, including Durham Region’s Community Energy Plan.
Contributing to her Professional Community
Karyn is an Evaluator for the International Association of Facilitators’ Facilitation Impact Awards and was the Editor of their monthly publication, Global Flipchart from 2010 to 2014.
Ethan Jerry Mings, BMus CPF-M – Associate
A trusted associate of The Monarch Park Group Inc. and President at The Desk Consulting Group Inc., Jerry is a quality manager, award-winning Certified Professional Facilitator – Master, and Certified ToP Facilitator with experience in the health sector. He also brings to his clients a deep understanding of the development of strategic plans, performance indicators, of risk management and of quality management.
Jerry’s clients include Community Care Access Centres, hospitals and government agencies. In addition, Jerry designs public participation systems and asynchronous facilitation methods using the Internet. He is a creative problem solver with exceptional interpersonal, communication skills. Through a unique mix of facilitated planning, mediation, quality management practices and use of the Internet, he is able to bring a results oriented perspective to the dialogue of organizational performance.
Why Us?
Because you need to hear from a wide range of stakeholders.
Because you need everybody on the same page and working together.
Because you need to get from chaos to clarity.
Because you need forward thinking in order to thrive.
We can demonstrate the possibilities and cost-effectiveness of taking the time to get everybody on the same page and working together, even when people are remotely-located.
We are on the leading edge when it comes to incorporating technology.
We do thorough work, have great turnaround times, and employ out-of-the-box thinking to create custom-designed processes with each of our clients.
We value:
- Resourcefulness and adaptability in our consultants
- Wisdom and open-mindedness in our clients
- Boldness and impact in our work, and
- Proactivity in all of the above
Services
Stakeholder Consultation
Bring your stakeholders together to gather feedback on proposed directions or changes. Gain insights into the minds of your community members. Foster a commitment to transparency.
Stakeholder consultations are opportunities for open communication between your organization and its community, as well as an opportunity for your community to come together and create connections within itself.
Virtual Facilitation
Whether it’s a focus group, a planning session, or a public meeting, The Monarch Park Group can bring your people together through online collaboration. Our skilled virtual facilitators can craft processes that will capture the participation and insights of your participants.
We use the latest in virtual collaboration tools. The technology is great and improving rapidly.
Strategic Planning
Our method is participatory and consensus-driven. It is best suited to organizations that include those who implement the plan in its creation. It works with the idea that, although it’s not a top-down process, the top is informed of the planning work being undertaken throughout the organization.
We spend time identifying the desired reality for the organization and what the obstacles are to that reality. Participants are enabled to craft strategies to address the obstacles. Through every step of the process, we seek to find the underlying information that connects the data. By opening the way for this information to be drawn out, significant and lasting changes can be made.
We don’t stop there!
We work with the organization to turn the strategies into meaningful action plans that keep the strategic plan alive and off of the proverbial shelf. We offer regular follow up so that our clients get additional support to ensure that their plans are on track.