Crayne is your strategic partner-in-growth
Strategy & Roadmapping
Building alignment and cohesion between your high level vision and day-to-day activities.
Exploring and refining where you want to go to meet the evolving needs of your customers and stakeholders - and developing actionable and achievable roadmaps to ground daily tasks.
Leadership & Management
Developing and solidifying your management practices and processes to help your team perform at their best.
Building clarity on inputs and outputs, and actionable ways to lead and manage with consistency, engagement, and measurements of progress.
We go deep because we are in it for your long-game
Digital Transformation
Levelling-up your productivity and performance.
Digitizing front-office and back-office processes and projects to help you do more of what you already do - and do it better.
Workshops & Speaking
Investing in the capacity, confidence, and leadership of your team, volunteers, and stakeholders.
Delivering keynotes, hosting panel discussions and facilitating interactive and hands-on sessions and workshops that are centred around your goals to help equip, inspire, and support your teams with change, innovation, entrepreneurship, and business strategy.
Program & Product Innovation
From Ideation ➡ MVP ➡ Launch ➡ Expansion - working with you to build innovative ideas to help you address the evolving needs of your customers.
Developing unique product solutions - with your values, mandate, and objectives as the north star, and customer success as the ultimate goal.
Creating programming - that is scalable, sustainable and metrics-driven, that unlock opportunities for both you and participants/learners along the way. For incubators, accelerators, innovation hubs, and educational organizations.
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We are known to have levelled-up leaders, managers, and organizations and for having the "perfect blend of strategic and implementation skills".
We are known to have helped companies "dodge bullets", and plan and execute their next moves.
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We are known for meeting teams where they are at and for leaving them feeling better equipped to move forward and thrive.
The truth is, we don't love the conventional approach to consulting. We do things differently to drive deep impact.
Your
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Carolyn Van
Principal Consultant
Carolyn is an experienced Senior Leader, Program Director, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and educator to business leaders, creatives and artists. She is known for seeding lasting impact and being trusted with big work, big clients and big hairy audacious goals.
Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Changemakers turn to Carolyn to deeply to identify, tackle, work through, plan and build for opportunities and challenges - no matter how undefined or complex they are. This is part of Crayne's origin story.
She brings more than 12 years of working directly with senior leaders; leading teams/departments; growing and scaling up businesses; and designing and building projects, services and programs.
Her deep and wide insights; technology meets business expertise; future-forward design and development capabilities; and having the"perfect blend of strategic and implementation skills" allows her to be a powerful catalyst for transformation, change, and scale-up.
Carolyn has been featured by, advised, led, and created for a long list of corporations, professional associations, and not-for-profits across various industries and sectors including healthcare, arts and culture, telecom, Internet of Things (IoT), human resources, education and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Amongst this list includes Microsoft, World Trade Centre Toronto, Toronto Board of Trade, Google, Intelligent Automation Summit, Product Management and UX/UI Associations, Clearco, CTV News Channel, Young Adult Cancer Canada, Rogers Wireless, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Scotiabank, First Nations Tech Council, Boys & Girls Club - National (Canada), The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, Lean Startup Machine Conference, Oxfam Canada, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and the House of Commons (Parliament of Canada).
She takes investing in our future seriously. She has been responsible for designing and managing programs and experiences that hundreds of thousands (and counting) have participated in. Carolyn has led framework development and design that private and public educators and experts across Canada are integrating in their skills development environments today.
With a strong regard for small and medium-sized ventures and having had first-hand entrepreneurship experience, Carolyn has worked with innovation incubators and accelerators and hundreds of startups across North America and Europe.
Understanding the power of creative arts, Carolyn has also advised and helped create programs for leading organizations in the creative arts industry including the Ontario Arts Council, CFC (Canadian Film Centre) Media Lab and Guelph Arts Council.
what they said...
what they said
Carolyn is a very knowledgeable, inventive, and reliable individual. We are really fortunate to have her as a trusted advisor. She has opened up many doors for us in our customer and business development stages thanks to her large network.
She is not afraid to be honest and tell you if and when you are not on the right track, which is quite refreshing to hear. We really love the way she tackles problems as they present themselves with an out-of-the-box approach.
- Aram, CEO of Crowdlinker
Through her energy, bold-nature, persistence, awesome ideas and wide connections we just rocketed forward.
Carolyn is thoughtful, empathetic, focused and always knows how to plan and execute the next move.
I would love an opportunity to work with Carolyn again - and so should you.
- Declan, CTO & Agile at LeanIntuit
We went from developing a product that people “could see” themselves using to developing a product people will use and that all stemmed from us making a conscience effort to hone in on the value that we were aiming to deliver to our consumers.
This is what Carolyn is able to bring to the table.
- Yohannes, Product Strategy at Google
Her expertise and the time she took to understand our needs and start from where we were, allowed for real change on a personal level and organizational level. She is articulate, open minded, knowledgeable, and efficient. She also offered practical ways to improve our services that will help us in the long run.
I am already looking forward to working with her again and definitely recommend her to anyone looking to enhance and expand their work.
- Karine, National Program Director at Young Adult Cancer Canada
