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Governance and people help, from inside the world you work in.

Contour North is a 100% Indigenous-owned firm. When you bring us in, you don’t start by teaching us the context. Ellice is Inuvialuk, and she’s worked inside Indigenous organizations and a provincial legislature, and sat on Northern boards. She knows how much rides on getting people and governance decisions right, and that no two Indigenous governments are built the same, from band councils to self-governing Nations to regional and community corporations.

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Ellice in the Western Arctic.
Inside the room, not advising from outside it
28
Years of people & governance work
Six sectors
Vice-chair: aviation, consumer goods, manufacturing, gas services, construction, defence
Four boards
Indigenous and Northern, since 2001
Where we start

Every government and organization is its own place, with its own history and its own way of doing things. We don’t arrive assuming we know yours. We arrive already understanding why that matters.

How we work
There’s no one reason people call us.

Maybe there’s more work than hands. Maybe you want a strategic plan facilitated, a team-building session, or governance stood up fast because the funding just landed and everything’s moving at once. Whatever it is, you get seasoned people who work right beside your team, for as long as you want us there.

What we help with

The help governments ask us for most.

Whatever your structure, and wherever the pressure is coming from.

Governance

The structure you actually have, whatever shape it takes, whether that’s a board, a council, community corporations, or something in between: decision rights, bylaws, and a working line between governance and the administration.

People & HR

Hiring, workplace policy, and the hard people matters, plus building HR into your administration so it doesn’t all rest on one person.

Workplace investigations

Independent and procedurally fair, handled with care for a small, connected community where everyone knows everyone.

Strategy & planning

A plan your leadership and your membership can follow, facilitated so it comes from the room instead of getting handed down to it.

Training & facilitation

Team building, and board or staff sessions and planning days facilitated so the day actually moves the work.

A leader for a stretch

Experienced hands in the seat when you’re between hires or need help through a busy season, working beside your team, not over it.

Employment & training programs

Interest, values and work-personality instruments for employment and training programs, so people get pointed at work that fits rather than work that happens to be open.

Projects & capital delivery

Housing, community infrastructure, and capital builds, with someone on your side of the table on the estimate, the contract, and what the schedule really says.

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Tell us what’s landing all at once.

The first conversation is free. Bring whatever’s most on your plate right now, and we’ll tell you honestly if we’re the right help.

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