We Build Cultures That Carry Performance
Sage & Summit is an Alberta-based culture and leadership consulting firm for technical companies.
We strengthen the leadership habits, workplace conversations and operating rhythms that move decisions, accountability and ownership closer to the work.
We Believe Culture Is How Work Gets Done When Leaders Are Not in the Room
Culture shows up in how decisions are made, problems are raised, meetings are run, accountability is handled and people respond when the work gets hard.
That is why culture cannot be changed through values statements or one-off workshops. It changes through consistent leadership behaviour and everyday operating practice.
Experienced in People and Operations
We are executive coaches, engineers, facilitators and organizational-development specialists with experience inside complex organizations.
We combine evidence-based coaching and adult development with practical business and operational understanding.
Our purpose is not to make clients dependent on us. It is to leave organizations more capable than we found them.
From Insight to Measurable Change
Measure
Build a clear picture of the current culture, leadership patterns and business priorities.
Build
Strengthen the habits, conversations, decision rights and operating rhythms that shape performance.
Reinforce
Support leaders as new behaviours are applied to real work, pressure and workplace relationships.
Prove
Track agreed indicators and show what changed, what did not and what needs to happen next.
High Care. Hard Questions. Real Accountability.
We bring optimism without avoiding reality.
We respect the expertise already inside the organization, ask the questions others may be avoiding and connect people development to business performance.
Our work is:
- Operationally relevant
- Evidence-led
- Built from the executive team to the frontline
- Connected to real business priorities
- Measured through agreed indicators
- Adapted to the organization, rather than delivered from a generic template
Purposeful Optimism With
Operational Backbone
Our work is grounded in positive psychology, coaching science, adult development theory, emotional and social intelligence and real-world leadership experience.
We believe people have the capacity to grow. We also believe growth requires clear expectations, honest feedback, healthy challenge and consistent accountability.
Warm does not mean soft. Accountability does not have to be punitive.
The strongest cultures create both.
Meet the People Behind the Work
Our team brings experience in executive leadership, engineering, operations, coaching, organizational development, finance, research and facilitation.
Together, we help clients understand the human dynamics beneath operational challenges and turn that understanding into practical change.
Marderé Birkill, MBL, CEC, MCC
CEO and Founder, Executive & Team Coach
Eric Potter P.Eng., CEC, ACC
COO, Executive Coach
Andrea Bauer BA, B.Comm, ACC
Executive Coach
Theresa McGee
Administrative Coordinator & Facilitator
Quintin Hansen, B.Sc.
Research Assistant and Webmaster
Sheila Smigarowski
CPA, CA, CIA, CRMA, ACC
Lenora M. LeMay Ph.D.
Janet Davie, MCC, CEC, CPA
Executive & Team Coach Practitioner
Built for Organizations Where the Work Is Complex
We work with CEOs, senior teams, HR leaders, managers and frontline supervisors in organizations where leadership quality directly affects safety, execution, retention, quality and growth.
Our strongest experience includes:
- Energy and oil and gas
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Engineering
- Industrial and field services
- Technology
- Government
- Professional services
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Ready to Build a Culture That Carries More of the Load?
Let’s identify where decisions, accountability or leadership depth are limiting the business, and what to strengthen first.
