Suslop works closely with its clients to identify priorities, set goals, and implement vision. Our firm appreciates the importance of setting realistic and measurable goals that yield tangible benefits over the long term. We can offer clients strategic advice that is both focussed and stratified. Our objective is to provide clients with meaningful strategies and projects that facilitate sustainable development and value creation. We can assist you with:

• Sustainability assessments

• Sustainability standards

• Benchmarking

• Risk assessments

• Impact measurements

• Performance evaluations

• Governance models

• Reconciliation

• Other advisory work

Our team has years of experience managing projects that vary in size and scope. We have helped clients navigate complex, multi-year projects in an efficient and timely manner. We work closely with clients on an ongoing basis, from defining goals to imagining solutions and implementing them. We are well-positioned to assist you with:

• Business plan development

• Strategic planning

• Project management plans

• Funding proposals

• Program development and implementation

• Assigning roles and responsibilities

• Communication plans

• Meeting facilitation

• Training

• Budgets

• Monitoring

By working closely with underserved communities (and organisations), Suslop team members have come to appreciate the need for holistic approaches to development. We understand that inclusion, human rights, social justice, empowerment, self-determination, and collective action figure prominently in community development. We also consider community members to be experts in their lives and communities and therefore value their knowledge and wisdom in bringing positive change to communities. We can support your community by assisting with:

• Needs assessment

• Comprehensive community plans

• Adaptation plans

• Development strategies

• Land use planning

• Community economic development

• Policy development

• Memoranda of Understanding

• Impact Benefit Agreements

• Funding applications

• Capacity building

• Government relations

• Networking

• Workshop and meeting facilitation

Our team is well-versed in different types of infrastructure development. We have experience with transportation, mining, energy, water, housing, and commercial infrastructure. We are qualified to assist you with:

• Development plans

• Feasibility studies

• Risk benefit analysis

• Project financing

• Government relations

• Public engagement

• Public relations

• Sustainability goals

• Environmental economics

The Suslop team consists of experts in natural resource management. We appreciate that natural resources underpin human consumption and production, and that production systems are intertwined with biodiversity, climate, and human health. We also understand the unique role that natural resource development plays in Canadian and Indigenous economies. Our experts can assist you with:

• Foundational knowledge of natural resource industry

• Strategic planning

• Sustainability strategy

• Organisational models

• Community-based natural resource management

• System integration

• Monitoring and evaluations

• Adaptive capacity

• Conservation

Our team has had the privilege of helping clients navigate Canada’s regulatory landscape. We are experts in key regulatory frameworks like the environmental legislation and policy and have experience leading environmental and impact assessments. We are well-positioned to assist you with:

• Regulatory guidance

• Environmental policy

• Technical reviews

• Environmental and impact assessments

• Traditional land use and Indigenous Knowledge

• Cumulative effects assessment

• Mitigation and monitoring plans

• Permitting

• License renewals

• Reporting

We have extensive experience working with Indigenous communities across Canada. As a result, we are attuned to the unique needs of communities and the social, political, legal, and economic challenges that they face as a result of settler colonialism. Our experience enables us to help clients navigate relationship-building with Indigenous communities and to advance reconciliation more broadly. We are equipped to assist you with:

• Foundational knowledge and understanding

• Government policy and guidelines

• Indigenous relations strategy

• Social licenses to operate

• Impact benefit agreements

• The duty to consult, consultation, and engagement

• Communications

• Meeting and workshop facilitation

• Cultural awareness training

• Reconciliation

Our team has successfully led consultation and engagement activities in collaboration with a number of rights holders and stakeholders across Canada. We have provided our clients with comprehensive and inclusive consultation and engagement strategies that have facilitated relationships based on trust, mutual respect, and understanding. From our perspective, successful consultation and engagement activities are premised on two-way dialogue that goes beyond information sharing. We encourage all of our clients to consult and engage in a meaningful way. Our team can assist you with:

• Foundational knowledge

• Government policy and guidelines

• Duty to consult requirements

• Consultation and engagement strategy

• Engagement plans

• Information sharing

• Capacity funding

• Public dialogue

• Public opinion surveys

• Records of consultation

• Response tables

• Workshop and meeting facilitation

• Technical and strategic support

• Training

• Monitoring

As a team of consultants with graduate level education and experience in academia, we possess superior analytical and communication skills. We are experts in qualitative and quantitative (mixed methods) research and can efficiently synthesise and communicate complex information to interested parties. We are qualified to assist you with:

• Structured literature reviews

• Community-based participatory research

• Community well-being research

• Environmental scans

• Jurisdictional scans

• Policy analysis

• SWOT analysis

• Gender-based analysis

• Surveys

• Interviews

• Focus groups

• Rountables

• Data collection

• Data analysis

• And more!