JAMES LAURENCE GROUP

Performance matters

We are builders, strategists, storytellers, designers, technologists and social impact specialists. We share a passion for tackling challenges that matter.

James Laurence Group is a management and social impact consulting company that brings together highly qualified and experienced senior level professionals who support many of the largest and most complex projects in British Columbia, work with all levels of government and the broader public sector, and provide expertise to non-governmental agencies and businesses.

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STORIES

From writers and designers to consultation and communication specialists, we provide a full range of communications and creative services that move projects forward sustainably.

Following a shared value approach, we work together with our clients to develop projects that benefit organizations and the communities where they operate.

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Technology

We have extensive experience providing management consulting in the information technology, healthcare and energy sectors. We bring a deep understanding of organizations and the environments in which they operate.

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Communications and Engagement Consulting

We work to create positive and sustainable outcomes for the communities and organizations we serve.

We provide full service strategic communications, engagement and creative consulting services. Our work ranges from evaluating social constraints to inform project design and decision making to delivering engagement programs that benefit organizations and communities. We support large resource and infrastructure projects through the design and environmental assessment stages and work with non profits to help build strong and resilient communities.

Committed to generating shared value, we bring leading international practices combined with a practical boots on the ground respect for corporate and local priorities.

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Information + Infrastructure

IT Management Consulting

We believe information and people are powerful. We want to help you use them most effectively.

With experience at the senior executive level of large corporations and leading complex projects in information technology, energy and health, our team brings professional management processes and experience with high-performing, interdisciplinary teams.

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Our People

Committed, Professional and Passionate

We get by with a little help from our friends.

As a team, we care about a lot of things. We believe design drives user experience and that if it looks good and feels good, chances are it is good. We believe in getting things done on time and on budget. We constantly seek out the balance between innovation and consistent, proven performance. We would rather reuse than recreate and we strive always to leave a lasting and positive impression.

We bring together a multi-disciplinary team of specialists who provide exceptional leadership and communications expertise to move your project forward.

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social impact, communications, engagement, sustainability, public consultation

Measuring Social Impact? Here's How

If you've been involved in a major infrastructure project in the last ten years, chances are you've been asked to consider its social impact. For engineers and technical specialists, this can be a daunting task since many of the rules and the tools you've been trained to rely on simply don't apply.

Building strong projects and resilient communities

One of the things I like best about building workshops is the discipline required to sort what I believe to be true into words and boxes that make sense to other kinds of thinkers.

This week, I helped deliver a workshop on corporate social risk for engineers and geoscientists who create large infrastructure and resource projects.

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What is Collective Impact and how does it work?

Broadly defined, Collective Impact is an approach to social challenges that are too complex for one organization to address on its own.

Through the Collective Impact process, multiple organizations work together to achieve big goals like feeding the hungry, increasing literacy and finding homes for the homeless.

user experience, community engagement, communications, consulting, UX

Thoughts on User Experience (UX)

User Experience – or ‘UX’ as the technology world calls it – refers to how a person feels when interfacing with a system or product. Typically, this term has been reserved for techies who need to design products and systems people use and value. In the tech world, UX Designers are the specialists responsible for delivering UX.

Today, UX is making an impact on all aspects of corporate society. With the average North American exposed to about 3,000 ads every day, companies are looking for new ways to up their competition – and enhancing UX is the hot new trend.

There’s nowhere UX is more important than in the world of community engagement.

Play It Forward

There's so many great non profits in BC and so much creative talent!

The team at Cineworks got it right when they put those two things together and created Play it Forward - matching good causes and filmmakers to create powerful campaigns that help spread the word.

The voice you take risk to share

My very good friend Michelle Pockey has found her voice. I don’t mean she was silent before, not by any measure, but in the last eight months her insights are laser sharp, her vision is acute, her commentary is finely tuned and, most important of all, her audience is ready to listen.