Strategic Advisor, Professional Custom Homes
Out of the Box CIO “assistance in helping us identify numerous opportunities where we could capture value for our consumers and suppliers has made us a more dynamic and productive entity. Helping us map out the supplier journey and develop internal mechanisms to help improve efficiency and productivity while assisting our suppliers in delivering on time results has been particularly valuable. I would recommend Leslie and her team to any organization large or small irrespective of whichever industry they might be operating in.”
CEO, Unstoppable Conversations
“Before engaging OOBCIO to create a digital transformation roadmap, we were throwing good money after bad, tens of thousands, in a series of failed marketing initiatives and various consultants. We were desperate for something to work, and making the next bad decision based on the loudest voice in the room at the time. We’ve now slowed down, we’re leveraging growth capital for rapid expansion of products and services, and we have a repeatable approach to both risk and measurement of results. ’” "...we now have a clear pathway and a way of managing intelligent risks when we innovate."
General Manager, Power Works Electrical
“Before engaging OOBCIO Power Works owners and executives were spending most of our time in the day-to-day operations and we didn’t know what our inefficiencies were, we couldn’t see the forest through the trees, After working with OOBCIO, we were able to find our inefficiencies and produce a real roadmap to solving them, ’... We now have an agreed upon direction and starting point for where we want to go and what matters to us.”
President, Portage College,
“The Portage Team has stopped their hamster wheels and have reduced silos through improved communication between departments. With the improvements to IT Governance, even with decreased Information and Technology budgets we are meeting our departments’ top priorities and getting projects completed on time and within budget.”
Vice President, Student and College Services
“In only 3 days, Leslie and her team took us from thinking Information and Technology was complicated and disliking the topic, to…engaging us in creating our own strategic roadmap we all understand. Even after 2 years, I continue to use it weekly in setting our priorities and investing in the best opportunities.”
National Chief Dene Nation
“We created a fact-based narrative that gave me the proof and the confidence to have critical conversations with the Federal Government. As a result, instead of giving us $600k for Covid-19 emergency response, we received $8.6 million.”
Former Transformadox Master Class Student
"After working with the Transformadox program, I was able to achieve higher results faster. I learned to be authentic, open and conscious and understood what people truly needed and are trying to accomplish. I learned to listen, to be a partner and communicate with others to build trust and credibility. When my proposals go forward, my department gets the support it needs. For example, I have been in my new job for only six weeks and have had the executive team sign off on a large technology investment. I got the support I needed because I have already established trust and credibility within the organization. "
Pemberton Holmes Ltd. – Real Estate
"We didn’t have a strategic vision for the next 5 years, people in the company couldn’t agree on what it looked like which meant we didn’t take the time to even talk about it After working with Leslie and her team, we were able to have the conversation and discuss what we were looking for as a team over the next 5 years our experience helped us understand our agents and brokers more, identifying really what they want and how we can help develop services that are more distinct for each individual type of agent rather than treating them all the same. For example, we have started on the path to create a new all-inclusive service for brand new agents in the past we treated most agents the same way.“
CEO, Clarmak Electrical
"The daily “grind” was starting to have us lose the “joy”. I wanted to get help for developing a plan and a roadmap instead of driving in circles. I hired Out of the Box CIO to help us see the whole picture and paradigm of my business not just technology and the newest, latest, and greatest “app”."
Sunshine Tiny Homes Ltd.
"Out of the box gave us an extensive outline of the process for the CDAP Grant. From what we understood about the outline, is they like to do a deep dive into companies for their discovery process. At the time we were looking for a faster approach and decided to go a different company, which we now regret. We feel that Leslie's approach would have been a much better direction to take, having had the experience we did with the other consultants. There is much value in taking time with a good lense, to problem solve... we will definitely be connecting with this team in the future should we have another problem within our company that we need to solve!"