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Trendspire Canada, Inc. is committed to make a vital and positive impact on Canada’s social landscape. We assist government, corporate and non-profit organizations build meaningful relationships with their clients and stakeholders.


Mission and Goals

Trendspire Canada, Inc. is a strategic research and innovation company, exploring and providing leadership opportunities, in order to create sustainable solutions, boosting profit and productivity for individuals, communities, staff, and stakeholders.

Company Goals:

1. Trendspire Canada, Inc. recommends tools and strategies to assist in harnessing values and vision for individuals, groups and communities.
2. Trendspire Canada, Inc. develops and recommends information communication technologies in order to open channels and provide access to resources and information.
3. Trendspire Canada, Inc. focuses on tools that enable consultation, collaboration, and innovation in order to build and strengthen relationships.
4. Trendspire seeks to be a leader in generating innovative and sustainable concepts for future profit and productivity.
5. Trendspire seeks to foster resiliency by supporting enabling strategies to create learning opportunities, through leadership, mentoring and coaching.

Business Philosophy:

Trendspire’s philosophy focuses on creating strategic opportunities for clients and communities. Through organizational assessments, an effort is made to identify intangible assets and to build upon what may already exist. Competent research uncovers trends in demography and economic tendencies, which allows freedom to think outside the box. Then, in a socially responsible manner, strategies are developed in consideration of sustainability, all with concern for return on investment (ROI). Trendspire Canada, Inc. strives to provide service excellence; demonstrated through over twenty five years of hard work, passion and dedication to community and technological development.


Digital Leadership: Blog

Visit Dianne Clark’s Blog here. She’ll provide inspiration and ideas and how to engage stakeholders using digital methods.


Recent Contracts

• Integrated Collaboration Strategies and Tools - ACE Communities, ARPA

• Canadian Voluntary Sector Enterprise Portal - Industry Canada

• Communications Hub - Alberta Recreation and Parks Association

• Regional Labour Study - Community Development Halton

• Resource Repository for Office of the Voluntary Sector - Health Canada

• Technical Activator - Centre for Community Leadership CRM

• Contact Relationship Management - HNHB Local Health Integration Network

• Partner Provider Matching - ConnectNiagara Initiative

• Training in the area of Community Development - City of Burlington

• Creative support and technical services - Sustainable Niagara Inc.

• Connect Niagara Business - Infrastructure assisting small business

• Youth Creative Works Challenge - showcasing creative works

• On-line research/public consultation - Ontario Ministry of Education

• Training of technical administrator - Leisure Intelligence Network (LIN)

• Products for e-commerce, data collection and information distribution

• A 200 page Business Resource Manual


Client List

We've enjoyed providing sustainable engagement products and processes since 1995 and encourage you to consult any of our Clients for testimonials of our services.
Industry Canada Leadership Connext Association of Municipalities of Ontario Canadian Organization of Faculty Association Staff City of St. Catharines Sustainable Niagara

Leadership Network

Designed for professionals to learn how to present/facilitate meetings in a virtual space!


A service unlike any other! The Trendspire Leadership Network is an innovative service allowing leaders to hold meetings and/or share their expertise/experiences. Imagine, sustainability for both Individuals and Organizations. Engage, involve and educate your network/membership by using interactive meetings while we provide support every step of the way. Bring your enthusiasm and we’ll do the rest!

 

As a member of the Trendspire Leadership Network, your benefits include…

The opportunity to offer your own online Learning Centre:
•An Interactive Discovery Room for general or specialized eLearning requirements
•Production Assistance/Coaching ready to guide you to create and share online content
•Technical Support because we’re live in each session you present; for you and your participants!
•Registration/Payment Processing using our comprehensive Service Bureau

For more information please visit www.leadernet.ca


Dianne Clark (Renton)

President and CEO

”~Dianne Clark Inspires Dynamic and Productive Teams”

• Nominated RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur of the Year
• Nominated Niagara Entrepreneur of the Year
• Nominated Niagara’s Business Woman of the Year
• Technical activator - Centre for Community Leadership Web Site
• Former Niagara Voices Panelist - St. Catharines Standard
• Professor of Leadership, Strategic Planning, and Community Development
• Training in the area of Community Development - City of Burlington
• Co-author of ‘Creating Community’ A Resource Manual

Data Sheet

View Dianne Clark's profile on LinkedIn

Projects and Published works

• Federal Government Portal Project: A $1.4 M Project of a Pan-Canadian Resource increasing capacity of Voluntary Organizations through community development and collaboration. National Voluntary Sector Portal Article
• Trendspire Corporate Brochure used for Business Shows and Information on services offered. Trendspire Corporate Brochure
• A survey offered online and in person with results impacting future decision making and changes to bylaws. Business Club Survey Example
• A columist for Niagara Voices for The St. Catharines Standard in 1999, Dianne contributed these columns. St. Catharines Standard :: Niagara Voices Columns
• Dianne assisted the founding of Sustainable Niagara Inc, a voluntary organization advocating sustainability and offers a database of over 1000 web resources. Sustainable Resources Portal Sample
• Dianne inspired and created ConnectNiagara Business which operated for two years with meetings and online resources. Here is one of their newsletters. ConnectNiagara Business Newsletter
• Home Page of ConnectNiagara. A community resource offering benefits for all community sectors. ConnectNiagara Home
Four letters of support from political leaders indicating an understanding and support for our valuable online resource, ConnectNiagara. ConnectNiagara Political Support
• In 1995, the Niagara Falls Review published a story on our Electronic Bulletin Board (BBS). Niagara Falls Review Article


Our Headquarters

Trendspire Canada, Inc.

Toronto, ON
M5J 2Z6 Canada
Phone: 416.360.5575

Please for individual, project or team based assistance.

Consulting Services

Online Community Engagement Processes

  • Public Consultation
  • Stakeholder and Civic Engagement
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Partnership Development
  • Engagement Marketing
  • Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
  • Contact Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Innovative Support Centre

Skilled and results oriented problem solving team (or designated expert); ready to respond and provide solutions to all community engagement enquiries and requirements.

  • When stakeholder engagement is beneficial or necessary
  • Assessment of human resource and organizational capacity
  • Stakeholder and potential partner readiness
  • Determination and support of Communities of Practice (CoP)
  • Knowledge transfer supporting innovative, strategic and sustainable workflows
  • Market research, product and trend analysis
  • Stakeholder involvement in the Policy Development Process
  • Inventory/environmental scan of internal and external resources
  • Integrate Community Engagement into organizational workflows
  • Create a culture of trust based on character and competency
  • Calculation of return on investment of CE strategies
  • Comparison of collaborative technology products
  • Recommendation of communication approaches
  • Competitive intelligence

Given any challenge, our team will provide several affordable options


Past Project Examples

Trendspire Surveys :: Community Report Card

Trendspire Canada, Inc. works with an innovative team of community leaders and researchers, who’d like to help make a difference in communities. From time to time, we offer up our own surveys that are designed to uncover facts that we hope can expedite issues of importance.

File Repository

A dedicated online storage area for upload of physical electronic resources. Participants can upload papers, articles, independent research projects, digital art and media and maintain control over their intellectual property.
Features:
User-friendly interface for individual log in, upload electronic resources.
Apply public or private security: Flexible settings for storage space size, designed to be set on a per user basis
Flexible access to resource assets; retrieve access logs
Comprehensive search by author, keyword, title,abstract or custom fields
Public, private or pre-designed searches

Cultureville

An alternative and fun way to conduct online research.This user-friendly, adaptable interface inspires thought provoking action that is easy to monitor and provides comprehensive results. Here!

Mentor’s Studio

Pairing of motivated learners with passionate professionals.

RoundTable of Community Strategists

A gathering of community strategists to fuel enthusiasm for emerging trends and opportunities.

Highrise ‘Flash’ Concept

Here is an organized and intelligent navigation interface. Imagine entering an office highrise and taking the elevator to your destination. It reallyworks. Here

Video Presentations

You can’t be everywhere! Make your presentation from the comfort of your home or office! You see the audience, they see you!

Wireless Remote Access

Access important information contained in a remote database via a wireless connection to the Internet with your Palm device.

Connect Niagara Portal

Connecting community groups and supportive business in the interest of community networking and regional prosperity. Here!

TeenTech

A projects-based e-learning community that provides unprecedented opportunities for learning and empowerment for youth ages 13-19.

Video Surveillance

Secure 24 hour remote monitoring of Home/Office/Store via the Internet.

Virtual Newsroom

Simply complete a few fields, and immediately, your news release is available to online vistors. An easy way to update stale content on your existing corporate web site. Features automated collection of visitors email addresses for immediate distribution of all newsreleases.


Knowledge Transfer

Individual Coaching

Access to expert, skilled and results-oriented coaches.

Learn on your time

Get up to speed quickly with our web-based self-study courses and eSeminars on-demand.

Live Events

Join us for live, interactive, online seminars where you can rapidly capture and apply your knowledge when presented with visual tutorials, simulations, quizzes and have access to online knowledge bases.

Facilitated Training

Learn at your own pace with a subscription to web-based, instructor led training and customized reference materials.


Montana Snell, BB

Project Manager, Trendspire Leadership Network

Montana Snell is the Project Manager for Trendspire’s newest service, Trendspire Leadership Network; LeaderNet. Montana began her business career pathway at Niagara College, graduating with an applied Business Administration Diploma.  During that time she began working with international Guests, providing detailed tours and seminars at a local winery. With an urge for a higher education and experience, she took off to Australia where she graduated with her Bachelors of Business. This international experience provided extraordinary skills, knowledge and motivation.  After a short return, Montana proceeded to South Korea to teach English; teaching and leading large groups of both students and teachers. A passion and skill set for leading and teaching continued to flourish. During her stay she completed a TEFL certification which has provided many techniques that are transferred into all arenas of present coaching and teaching. Following her travels, she worked for a successful non-profit research centre, that synergized government, post-secondary and extra-Provincial resources, while using effective collaboration strategies. Montana then paired up with her current mentor and partner to help ARPA create an online learning centre. She also acted as the Knowledge Transfer Coordinator, coaching and hosting others in an online platform. During this time she assisted Dianne Clark with the creation and execution of LeaderNet, an entrepreneurial business that provides virtual event coaching and support.

Project Highlights
•  Partnered creation of Trendspire Leadership Network:
  Services, Processes, Marketing, Accounts,Communication
•  Collaborative creation of Trendspire Leadership Network Website
•  (LeaderNet) Website and CRM Management and Support
•  Process Design and Implementation: ACE eLearning Centre
•  Process creation of a new CRM for ACE Communities

Education
•  Bachelor of Business – Marketing  
  Griffith University, Australia
•  Business Administration – Marketing
  Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology, Canada
•  Adobe Connect Professional Certified
•  TEFL Certified

Full Credentials | Contact

View Montana Snell's profile on LinkedIn


Experiential Labs

Enterprise Content Management

Interactive laboratory showcasing the capture, management, storage, and delivery of documents and content. Used in combination or separately, we provide five areas for exploration and testing:

  • Document Management (DM)
  • Collaboration (collaborative software, groupware, etc.)
  • Web Content Management (WCM) (including web portals)
  • Records Management (RM) (archive and filing management systems)
  • Workflow / Business Process Management (BPM)

Lorna Costantini

Knowledge Broker and Educational Consultant

PROFILE
Skilled in community development, team building, staff training, media production and web publishing. Workshop presenter. Competent public speaker, qualified teacher, confident writer and frequent blogger. Political experience. Community volunteer.

EXPERIENCE

WEBCASTER Edtechtalk
SHOW HOST Classroom 2.0 Live
FACILITATOR Niagara Catholic District School Board Parent Reaching Out Project
CONSULTANT Ontario Ministry of Education Ontario Since 2001
Ontario Certified Teacher


Privacy Policy

Your Privacy

At Trendspire Canada, Inc., we believe our online visitors have a right to know our practices regarding the information we may collect when you visit our Web site and what type of information is collected. The guidelines contained herein apply only to your visit to the Web site operated by or for Trendspire Canada, Inc. Sites which are linked to/from this site may have different policies; therefore, please review the privacy policy notices on those sites for details.

While Trendspire Canada, Inc. does not generally require that you provide us with personally identifiable information in order to visit and use the Trendspire Canada, Inc. site, please note that in order to participate in some activities, it will be necessary for you to provide this information. If you choose not to provide it for those activities, you may not be able to participate in them.

Collection of Information
For each visitor to the Trendspire Canada, Inc. Web site, the Trendspire Canada, Inc. Web server automatically recognizes, collects and/or stores information such as the visitor’s IP address/Domain name combination and any referring sites. Trendspire Canada, Inc. may use several technologies to accomplish this. An example of such a technology is cookies.

When you visit the Trendspire Canada, Inc. Web site or advertisements appearing thereon, or use one or more of the Trendspire Canada, Inc. Web site services, we may use an industry-wide technology called “cookies” which stores certain information on your computer and which will allow us to customize your experience to better match your interests and preferences or to simply facilitate your signing in to use the services. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, if you block or erase cookies, we may not be able to restore any preferences or customization settings you previously specified and our ability to personalize your online experience will be limited. Please refer to your browser instructions or “help” screen to learn more about these functions.

Trendspire Canada, Inc. may ask you to provide “personal information”, meaning individually identifiable information such as your email address, name, mailing address, telephone number, social security number, credit card number, or persistent identifier (such as a customer number held in a cookie) which is associated with individually identifiable information, to enable you to participate in contests, to fill out a registration using this site. Trendspire Canada, Inc. may combine the information you provide on our Web site with information we may collect offline from you or from third parties so that we can more effectively tailor our site, services and offerings to you.

Trendspire Canada, Inc. will not share the personal information you provide on the Trendspire Canada, Inc. Web site with any other parties, except (a) to other affiliated Trendspire Canada, Inc. companies who may want to contact you about products, services or other offerings that may be of interest to you (b) with your consent (see paragraph below), (c) as may be required by law or court order, (d) to persons or companies with whom Trendspire Canada, Inc. engages to carry out or provide support for the operations of the site or our business, or (e) under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety or property of our users, the public or Trendspire Canada, Inc..

Unless you instruct us otherwise, Trendspire Canada, Inc. may contact you to provide information about products, services, promotions, contests, or other activities or offerings that may be of interest to you. You can instruct us whether or not you wish to be contacted by emailing us your request.

With your consent, Trendspire Canada, Inc. may share your personal information with third parties outside of the Trendspire Canada, Inc. group of companies who may want to contact you about products, services or other offerings that may be of interest to you. Each of these companies may have their own privacy policies. Trendspire Canada, Inc. will seek to obtain your consent at the place where the information is collected either by an “opt-out” or “opt-in” method, or by other means (such as an email request). If you consent to receiving communications from any of these third parties, you will need to communicate with them directly if you later decide that you no longer wish to receive their communications. If you wish to withdraw your consent from any further sharing of your personal information with third parties, you may do so by emailing us your request.

Use and Disclosure of Anonymous Aggregated Information
Trendspire Canada, Inc. may also collect, aggregate and maintain anonymous information about the visitors to our Web site, such as visitors hobbies, interests, and the like. This data can then be used to tailor Trendspire Canada, Inc. ‘s Web site content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our visitors. Trendspire Canada, Inc. may also share such aggregate information about our visitors with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties; for example, to inform them about the percentage of male/female visitors or percentage of visitors within a particular age range.

Security
Trendspire Canada, Inc. takes great care in maintaining the security of your personal information and in preventing unauthorized access to it through the use of appropriate technology and internal procedures. However, Trendspire Canada, Inc. does not guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur and Trendspire Canada, Inc. will not be responsible for any losses or damages suffered as a result of such unauthorized access.

Consent to Processing
By providing any personal information to the Trendspire Canada, Inc. site, all users, including without limitation users in the member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in Canada.

Policy Governs Use; Changes to Privacy Policy
The terms of this policy will govern the use and any information collected while it is in place. Trendspire Canada, Inc. reserves the right to change this policy at any time, so please re-visit this page as often as you deem appropriate.

Questions
If you have any questions or comments about our personal information practices or about this Privacy Statement, please feel free to send us an email or write us at:

Trendspire Canada, Inc.
18 Harbour Street
Toronto, ON
M5J 2Z6   Canada