Cultivating
Collaboration
We believe that collaboration is a vital tool for bringing the voices of people into decision making on challenging social, environmental and workplace issues that shape their lives.
Our Services
We help our clients engage in constructive dialogue, enabling organizations to problem-solve, manage conflict, plan strategy, to think independently and thoughtfully, to make decisions and determine a path forward.
Using the mutual gains approach, including joint fact-finding and other powerful collaboration tools, we help parties to bridge differences, and to better navigate disputes and conflicts. We aim to help parties address disputes more constructively, improving relationships and building trust.
Is your organization looking for a thorough method of identifying and navigating issues, and engaging communities affected by projects? Do you need a deeper analysis of the issues and interests of communities, rights holders, stakeholders or other parties?
To create your organization’s strategic plan, we facilitate dialogue among decision makers and front-line service providers to create a shared road map – charting a course towards joint organizational goals.
Our Projects
Our Clients
Testimonials
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Sarah is a talented mediator, with excellent process design applied knowledge. Sarah’s ability to see the entirety of a process and realize the needs of the parties through different phases has impressed me. As a trainer, Sarah brings warmth and creativity to coaching participants, ensuring thorough development of their mediation and negotiation skills.
Barbara Oliveira, Executive Director,
EcoSynergy
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Sarah has provided mediation and arbitration to the sport sector for years and has a very successful and positive track record. I will continue to seek Sarah as an arbitrator and mediator in the future.
Steven Indig, Managing Director,
Sport & Law Strategy Group
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I have worked with Sarah on providing expert input on the design and set up of an ombuds system. Sarah has shown great strength and patience, and cultural sensitivity. Sarah is a dedicated professional, able to straddle the triangle of client, process and substance with the same and equal amount of attention to detail. It has been a great experience working with her.
Pascal Rocha, Mediator,
Organizational Consultant
and Professor
About Us
Daitch & Associates provide tailored tools to support collaborative processes, build consensus, solve problems, and navigate conflicts in sustainable and community development.
We focus on social, environmental, health and land issues, natural and cultural resource challenges, energy, extractives and the sport sector – resulting in wiser, better decisions for the future on pressing public issues. We offer professional third-party neutral services for multi-party decision making, including mediation, facilitation, process design, citizen engagement, strategic planning, organizational development, and building collaborative capacity. Partnering with experts from across Canada and globally, we work with organizations and communities to tailor the design of each process to meet the unique needs of our clients. The result is empowering people to walk a common path together, finding innovative tools to navigate their toughest challenges.
Our clients are international, national, and local organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the Gwich’in Tribal Council, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the Government of the Northwest Territories Departments of Health, and Education, the Natural Resource Governance Institute, RESOLVE, the European Peace Institute and the Consensus Building Institute, amongst others.
We look forward to working with you. Please contact us for more information.
Sarah Daitch
As a Chartered Mediator, a facilitator, and dialogue process designer, Sarah sees collaboration as a vital tool for bringing the voices of people into decision making on challenging issues. Sarah specializes in consensus building in environmental, community, health, energy, sport and extractive sector issues.
After her parents immigrated to Canada, Sarah and her sister were brought up in Northern Canada, first in Nunavut, and then in Treaty 8 and Métis homelands in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.
Sarah is the founder and principal of Daitch & Associates and a Senior Associate with MASS LBP. Her business has delivered on mandates in cross cultural settings in Canada, the US, Europe and Latin America for sub national and national governments, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for tribal governments, NGOs and for Canadian sports federations – resulting in wiser, better decisions for the future on public issues.
Sarah is a graduate of the University of Calgary and holds an MA in Dispute Resolution from the University of Victoria; she is a Chartered Mediator with the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada, a Certified Facilitator of the Thinking Environment, a member of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada’s mediation roster, and on the facilitator-mediator roster for the Ontario Energy Board. Sarah is an Action Canada Fellow (2013), and a former Canadian national team cross country skier; she was inducted into the NWT Sport Hall of Fame in 2016, and served until 2023 on the Board of Directors of Nordiq Canada. In 2013, Sarah was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to Canadians.
