Team

Pam Ryan

Pam Ryan

President

Pam has more than 30 years’ experience in planning and implementing successful community and stakeholder engagement processes for the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. As a skilled strategist and welcoming facilitator with a BCom in transportation and logistics, Pam’s path has traversed a full range of goods-and-people movers, including air, road, rail marine and off-road. Her areas of focus include transportation, alternative energy, housing and community planning. Her approach to creating supported policies and building long-lasting public infrastructure is the belief that each project is as unique as the communities it serves.

Georgia Tsoromocos

Georgia Tsoromocos

Vice-President

Georgia is a client-focused strategist with finesse to manage human capital while overseeing complex content planning and public-facing programming. As a communicator and former journalist, Georgia draws experience from both sides of the desk, offering a unique approach to stakeholder engagement and people focused in-community outreach. Georgia is driven by the belief that effective public participation programs and open discussion between decision-makers and constituents positively shapes project perceptions and outcomes. With a proven record for meeting project deadlines, Georgia asks all the right questions and delivers quality results.

Amanda Pang

Amanda Pang

Director, Client Services

Amanda is an experienced marketing, market research and project management professional who can deliver your project from end-to-end, dollar-to-dollar. Amanda excels at uncovering and understanding project requirements and delivering results that meet client and community expectations, be they simplified processes, engaging online content, or improved exacting project controls. With her skills at sorting timeline priorities and getting multiple points of contact on the same page and commitment to managing scope/schedule/budget, Amanda will go the extra mile to learn your business front to back and ensure your project remains on the right track.

Kirsty Dick

Kirsty Dick

Director, Client Services

Kirsty is a project manager who delivers compelling visuals and facts and information that resonate. A former TV producer with more than 15 years’ experience, Kirsty has an impressive mix of visual media skills, including video production and animations. She is adept at selecting the appropriate medium to convey your message and tune in your audience no matter how short their attention span. With a strong spirit for creative collaboration, capability to view every new challenge with a fresh perspective and years of experience coaching clients at work and children in sports at home, Kirsty is game to deliver results for even the most challenging of assignments.

Alix Matthews-Mahé

Alix Matthews-Mahé

Senior Engagement Consultant

Alix is a strategic communications and engagement innovator with an aptitude for transforming complex information into inclusive and interesting programs that obtain meaningful input for decision-makers. With more than a decade of experience, she has planned and delivered dozens of engagement initiatives ranging from small-scale projects to multi-billion-dollar regional infrastructure projects. Alix’s background in journalism and experience in a variety of sectors has shaped her role as a creative communicator with a keen ability to turn technical content into a compelling story that considers diverging positions.

Elana Krol

Elana Krol

Senior Communications Consultant

Elana is a consultant with a passion for creative writing, community planning and public engagement. She has a flair for initiating conversations and ensuring meaningful two-way dialogue takes place between organizations and their valuable stakeholders. Elana embraces the opportunity of working under public scrutiny to deliver beyond expectations and challenge public perceptions. She’s never seen a survey she didn’t like and has the fierce belief that sharing your feedback is the first step towards making change you can see.

Valder Belgrave

Valder Belgrave

Marketing Consultant

Valder is a marketing and communications professional with more than 25 years of international experience helping organizations build and strengthen their relationships with customers, employees and stakeholders. He delivers strategic and engaging marketing campaigns that reflect and reinforce brand strategy. He has significant experience in annual and corporate reports, corporate newsletters, print, and earned media. Valder is passionate about ensuring that clients can maximize the return on investment in their customer relationships.

Katie Miller

Katie Miller

Communications Consultant

Katie is a dedicated communicator and storyteller who delivers creative and engaging strategies and content. Experienced in communications and engagement in the public, corporate and post-secondary sectors, she has a strong skillset in creative solutions, data analysis and all things written. Katie is a translator of information and ideas and excels in distilling complicated, technical information into audience-centered, engaging content. She approaches every assignment from a place of curiosity and empathy to create impact-focused narratives that deliver personalized and effective results informed by data-driven decisions.

Luka Vasic

Luka Vasic

Communications Coordinator

Luka is a thorough researcher and communicator who tirelessly pursues facts and attention to detail to deliver powerful stories in creative, concise and comprehensive ways. Luka’s experience in journalism taught him to identify newsworthy issues, opportunities, innovations and events, and then produce accurate, relatable and compelling narratives. He specializes in writing, editing, and video production and excels at translating business objectives into engaging communications materials that bring clients’ messages to the forefront.

Josh Mickelson

Josh Mickelson

Conmmunications Coordinator

Josh is a communications specialist who applies his writing and digital media skills to support community engagement, social media, and digital marketing initiatives. Working with both private and public sector clients, he understands the diverse needs of different industries and implements strategies that reflect each organization’s goals and objectives. Josh brings his unique perspective to social media and digital strategies, tailoring advertising and public relations messaging to target hard-to-reach markets and key audiences.

Evelyn Chua

Evelyn Chua

Graphic Designer

Evelyn is a multidisciplinary designer who uses visual narratives to inform, educate and inspire. She has diverse brand creation and graphic design experience and is a talented illustrator. She is skilled at implementing design strategy and brand application to effectively deliver the right content and tone in print and digital spaces. To every task, she brings both passion for helping others and grace under pressure. Her lifelong journey is to design and implement intelligent solutions and create meaningful experiences to connect with people.

Alessandra Leonardo

Alessandra Leonardo

Junior Graphic Designer

Alessandra is an interdisciplinary designer with strong knowledge of various design suites and experience implementing brand strategy and brand application, both in print and digital mediums. She leverages her knowledge of current best practices and her design skills to deliver creative, high quality design work that supports successful outcomes in engagement and communications programs. She uses her passion for learning to approach each new task with an open mind and a desire to dig deeper into how her projects can engage audiences and exceed client expectations.

Rachelle Icasiano

Rachelle Icasiano

Executive Coordinator

Rachelle is the organization and administration specialist who keeps things running smoothly. During Rachelle’s 18-year career in education, she perfected her skills in multitasking, attention to detail and her ability to stay calm under pressure. Rachelle is as adept at managing the complexities of our accounting system as she is at event planning and cultivating Lucent Quay’s cultural events. Whether supporting business development, building effective back-office practices or coordinating schedules, she keeps everyone moving, together.