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About Us

Ideal State Consulting is a business management firm specializing in aligning your strategies, people, processes, technologies, and culture.

Who We Are

Robyn Donald

Principal & Founder of Ideal State Consulting

Robyn is an innovative, methodical thinker who has a passion for continuous improvement. She has an extensive background working in not-for-profit and municipal government with proven success in project management, process and efficiency, business continuity, change leadership and workplace and culture transformation.

 

Robyn is known for her ‘just do it’ attitude, taking an inclusive approach to turn client aspirations and ideas into reality with practical, tangible, and sustainable systems that achieve the client’s vision.  Clients describe her as curious, candid and someone willing to challenge the status quo. She is adept in helping clients make the small yet necessary steps to establish structure, enhance efficiency, productivity, and overall performance of processes to guide employees and business success. Robyn has a gift for leveraging diversity and supporting teams to work together productively. She is committed to ensuring that training and communication needs have been addressed to manage organizational change and transition from concept to operations.

 

Robyn has experience in Change Management using Prosci and ADKAR methodologies and tools. She also holds certification in Applied Project Management, Fundamentals of Emergency Management, Business Process Management and Supervisory Leadership Development. She has successfully coached leaders in Change Leadership and has developed proven change and project management tools.

Our Expertise

As a business leader, you wear many hats and may not have the in-house resources and expertise to bring your ideas into reality. At Ideal State Consulting, we specialize in organizational development and assist businesses in achieving their goals and improving their overall effectiveness. We work closely with you to identify areas of improvement and develop innovative strategies that are tailored to your unique business needs.
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Ideal State Consulting will support leaders to improve the bottom line by providing guidance to implement a project, find efficiencies and develop business documentation to support business continuity or onboarding.
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Using change management principles and tools throughout all our services, we are here to provide leaders with the knowledge to be confident and effective change champions, building capacity and autonomy in your employees.  

Our Experience

Ideal State Consulting has had the opportunity to work with an array of businesses across various industries. These are a few of the diverse projects where we helped businesses achieve their goals. 

Transformed a newly formed team into a high functioning business services team; working collaboratively to establish and document roles, responsibilities, and processes to support the growing business.

Led a business through an extensive office move; developing systems and processes while considering the opportunities and challenges of coordinating a large, diverse staff through change.

Conducted administrative reviews including the development and implementation of systems to support staff and increased efficiency and individual accountability.

Project Manager for the development and implementation of a $1.2 million external facing online grant application system.  Deliverables included building solutions to support improved service delivery through the creation and development of procedure documentation including training and education material.

Conducted a current state assessment and gap analysis of the client’s business continuity practices including disaster recovery, crisis response and communication. Delivered a business continuity planning framework for the phased implementation of a mature, robust, repeatable process across the organization.

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