Consulting

Michelle DagninoWhy Michelle?

Michelle’s background in law, community member engagement, demographic profiling, critical analysis and leadership programming are the basis for her consulting program. Michelle works with foundations, all levels of government, local and national voluntary organizations and, businesses to assist them with their specific community engagement efforts. She provides tailored speaking, training, and strategic consulting to meet the particular needs of the requesting groups. Michelle has extensive experience in helping organizations and communities to develop new and sustainable ideas that motivate people to collaborative action.

What Michelle does:

Michelle provides organizations with policies and directives that motivate young men and women to be proactive leaders in their communities and workplaces. Examples of Michelle’s work has been to develop training initiatives, incentive and recognition programs, corporate culture evaluations, mentorship programs and more.

With her keen understanding of the millennial generation, Michelle can help your company focus on how to recruit and retain this valuable young resource, ensuring the future success of your company and your employees.

Current and past clients

Consulting Project Director, since February 2011 (NACY)
The National Alliance of Children and Youth

  • Overall responsibility for the strategic needs and project management associated with the Taking Stock Project.
  • Overseeing the research coordination and development of key deliverables, including a series of think tanks, case studies and surveys
  • Management of the Advisory committee

Consulting Project Manager & Facilitator, March 2011 - July 2011
Youth Policy Framework, Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Lead project consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services on the development of the consultation services for the creation of the youth policy frameworkThe objective of this project was to mount a broad, inclusive engagement of diverse youth perspectives on what supports and opportunities youth need in order to reach their full potential, and deliver feedback to the Ministry in a format that could be easily analyzed by Ministry staff.

Consulting Director, September 2008 - March 2010
Youth Venture Canada,Toronto, Ontario (GENV)

  • Spread and adaptation of Ashoka’s Youth Venture program within Canada;
  • Program management, including operationalizing, budgeting, monitoring and evaluating the youth social engagement program;
  • Development and ongoing relationship management of social sector partners;
  • Capacity building of partner organizations’ program coordinators/facilitators;
  • Planning, developing, establishing, clarifying and evaluating targeted communications strategies and all related elements, products and collateral materials.

Evaluation Consultant, since January 2011
Northwest Scarborough Local Immigration Partnership, Agincourt Community Services Association

  • Ongoing evaluation of Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) project in Northwest Scarborough to assess process, outputs, and measure outcomes of the implementation phase.

Evaluation Consultant, since July 2011
Alliance of Multicultural Agencies Against Forced Marriage

  • Ongoing evaluation of SWC funded project on ESL curriculum on forced marriage. Ethnographic study, and process evaluation as the main focus of evaluation.

Evaluation Consultant, since September 2011
Bathurst-Finch & Lawrence Heights Local Immigration Partnership, Jewish Vocational Services Toronto

  • Ongoing evaluation of Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) project in Bathurst-Finch and Lawrence Heights. Perform a formative program evaluation of LIP’s process, assumptions, ability to set and meet objectives and the scope of objectives throughout the partnership and project implementation.

Evaluation Consultant, since September 2011
Bathurst-Finch & Lawrence Heights Local Immigration Partnership, Jewish Vocational Services Toronto

  • Ongoing evaluation of Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) project in Bathurst-Finch and Lawrence Heights. Perform a formative program evaluation of LIP’s process, assumptions, ability to set and meet objectives and the scope of objectives throughout the partnership and project implementation.

Consultant, since January 2010
Jane Finch Community Family Centre, Toronto, since 2010

  • Ongoing management consulting on board governance, organizational restructuring, program evaluation, and project management.

Consultant/Project Manager, June 2008 – June 2009
United Ways of Ontario

  • Retained to coordinate, develop and deliver 17 forums across Ontario on developing a provincial youth outcomes strategy. Process included community wide consultations, focus groups, stakeholder interviews, market research and ministry input.

Lead Consultant/Program Developer September 2008- May 2009
Enhancing Youth Engagement Series, United Way of Greater Toronto

  • Developed and delivered a series of trainings, through focus groups, research and consultation, for member agencies on how to meaningfully engage youth in decision-making opportunities within the organization.

Youth Leadership consultant/Project Manager, since March 2008
Re:Action 4 Inclusion, Community Living Ontario

  • Ongoing program development and program management for project dedicated to supporting youth learning how to be advocates for young people with disabilities.

Project Consultant & Facilitator, March 2007 – May 2009
The Lung Association of Ontario

  • Delivery of Ministry of Health Promotion funded Youth Action Alliance teams leadership training and curriculum development including workshops on creative advocacy, volunteerism, global awareness, and public policy.

Project Consultant & Facilitator, March – June 2007
Forums on Post Secondary Education, The Colleges of Ontario Network for Education and Training (Con*nect)

  • Developed and delivered a series of consultations with stakeholders on raising awareness of the importance to Ontario’s economic and social well-being of a highly skilled, post-secondary educated workforce and an effective Research and Development platform.

Consultant to Youth Committee, October 2005 – March 2006
Ad-Hoc Conference, Ottawa, Ontario

  • Consulting on and co-organizing the second day of the two-day conference including co-ordinating the participation of 75 youth leaders from across Canada, program development, liasing with and outreach to funders, troubleshooting, co-chairing the Youth Advisory Board, media representation, and post-conference follow-up.

Facilitator and Research Consultant, May 2002– December 2005
Gendering Adolescent AIDS Project, University of Toronto, Ontario

  • Partner in a team-based project to develop a gender based-analysis of HIV/AIDS to be used in prevention programs
  • Hired and supervised youth facilitators across Ontario in the coordination of working groups on youth and sexuality; data gleamed from groups is used in the creation of prevention programs that promote an inclusive anti-oppressive, interdisciplinary and creative approach to AIDS education;
  • Developed a youth-advisory board to consult on research data and to support the creation of their own series of projects based on a participatory action model of activism through the arts.

Contact info@michelledagnino.com for a portfolio and list of references.