Client Testimonials
About Monica Da Ponte
Monica is passionate about building a society where people and nature thrive. She uses her expertise in systems, business, and not for profit management to help catalyze a regenerative and distributive future.
Monica started Shift & Build in 2015 and helps organizations develop and implement strategies that deliver social and environmental impact as well as economic return .
Prior to Shift & Build, Monica was the Executive Director, Education at Public Services Health and Safety Association leading efforts to advance prevention in the education and culture sectors.
Preceding PSHSA, Monica led WWF-Canada’s efforts to drive transformational change and raise funds through relationships with business.
Here, she created the award winning, Living Planet @ Work, WWF’s program to advance sustainability through employee engagement. The program now has over 1,000 participating companies and has raised over $1M for conservation efforts.
Monica began her career at Procter & Gamble in various business development and customer marketing roles.
Monica is an Adjunct Proffessor at and holds a BBA as well as an MBA from the Schulich School of Business. She also completed a residency program at The Banff Centre focused on using design thinking to build market-based solutions that tackle economic inequality.
Services
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Systems change strategies
Possibility identification
Program, service & product design
Stakeholder & community engagement
Implementation
Implementation plans
Proposal & grant writing
Tool & resource creation
Facilitation
Fundraising & Revenue Generation
Program design for revenue generation
Market & competitive analysis
Donor research & prioritization
Board, committee and volunteer engagement
Methodology
Without strategy, execution is aimless, and without execution, strategy is useless
We tailor our methodology below to help clients exceed their goals, maximizing social and financial return.
1. DiscoveryUnderstand root opportunities & challenges
2. Goal consensusAgree upon project goals
3. Road map creationIdentify the path to achieving project goals. Review and revise as needed
4. Stakeholder engagementConnect, understand and integrate meaningful insights
5. ResearchDig, dig deeper and integrate
6. Strategy developmentConnect insights, define direction, articulate critical choices, and make recommendations
7. Project implementationIdentify milestones, resources and ownership. Provide critical support as needed
Change initiatives Created by Monica
Real money strategies helping get real results
Strive emerged out of the Alt/Now program at The Banff Centre. Monica designed the initiative with a belief that peer to peer engagement combined with efforts to encourage financially resilient behaviours could catalyze greater financial agency.
Contact
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Monica Da Ponte
monicadaponte@shiftandbuild.ca