Workforce Development
Indigenous Workforce Development
When major projects and companies come into a region, they bring real employment opportunities for the communities in the area. We work with communities to help people access those opportunities, connecting priority job categories, training programs, and education partners so community members are ready to step into skilled trades, technical, and infrastructure roles as work becomes available.
Working collaboratively to create impact, we can help you with:
- Community-aligned workforce pathway development
- Priority job category identification
- Coordination of training programs with regional education partners
- Training-to-employment pathway design for project sites
- Workforce readiness for skilled trades, technical, and infrastructure roles
- Funding alignment and coordination with training partners
- Systems and processes to track ready candidates and opportunities
Indigenous Workforce Policies and Practices
In a tight labour market, local Indigenous communities are an asset, offering a skilled available workforce right where you're operating. Service companies that do this well build strong local hiring practices and lasting relationships that pay off in recruitment, retention, and reputation. We help suppliers and contractors build the workforce policies and practices to tap into this local talent effectively.
Working collaboratively to create impact, we can help you with:
- Indigenous recruitment and retention strategy development
- Workforce policy design aligned to community and project needs
- Local hire commitments and implementation planning
- Onboarding and workplace readiness practices for Indigenous employees
- Partnership development with regional education and training providers
- Performance tracking and reporting on workforce commitments
We collaborate with Indigenous communities to build and strengthen their capacity for self-determination. Our engagement approach honours culture, tradition, and the recognition of Indigenous rights, ensuring community voices are heard.
Our work with leadership aligns priorities and values with industries to create sustainable opportunities and lasting benefits. We develop strategies to grow business ventures, involve Membership in opportunities, and support governance structures that foster effective leadership with clarity, transparency, and long-term success.
Learn more about the work we are doing to support communities in following areas:
- Community Comprehensive Plans (CCP)
- Communications and engagement
- Reaching out to Members on and off reserve for inclusive engagement
- Developing tools and platforms for Member-only communications
- Designing websites, managing social media, and branding
- Creating business strategies for economic development, procurement, capacity building, and partnership creation
- Child and Family Services mapping and planning
- Treaty Land Entitlement settlement planning
- Research, analysis, and advocacy
- Sustainability and Indigenous ESG (IESG) reporting
- Leadership governance and training
- Partnership development
Strengthen your understanding and relationships with Indigenous people and communities. As a commitment to reconciliation, we are called upon to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as a framework and incorporate policies and meaningful activities into business operational activities.
We help organizations incorporate culturally informed policies and practices into their operations. This includes our Knowledge Holder delivering education on the history of Indigenous Peoples in Canada—covering rights, treaties, culture, traditions, and protocols—to foster deeper understanding, intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights awareness, and anti-racism.
We provide a practical ‘toolkit’ to guide your journey toward meaningful engagement, supporting activities such as relationship building, consultation, and collaboration. This approach helps create opportunities for economic development, employment, procurement, contracting, and participation in sustainable, long-term benefits.
Take steps towards understanding more and participating in reconcile-ACTION with our support in:
- Cultural awareness workshops and employee onboarding
- Engagement and consultation
- Indigenous Inclusion Strategy
- Indigenous commitments and policy development
- Partnership creation
- Supply chain management
- Community investment
- Negotiations