Broadleaf Consulting
Insight & Impact
Our tailored approach helps organizations navigate complex challenges, make data-informed decisions, scale what works, and achieve sustainable outcomes.
Welcome
I’m Sarah Farina, Founder and Principal at Broadleaf Consulting. I am passionate about connecting intentions, actions, and impacts. My goal is to blend creativity and professionalism, ensuring that each project reflects your vision and goals. Together, we’ll create a dynamic and enjoyable process, leading to impactful outcomes.
Broadleaf was very professional, set out clear timelines and project goals with us, provided guidance on best approaches and methodology. I won’t hesitate to connect with Broadleaf again for future evaluation projects. The collaborative approach was really important and valued. Sarah took the time to understand our goals, the complex context of the situation being evaluated, and helped us sort out a modified evaluation plan when the situation being evaluated changed drastically mid-way through the evaluation.
– Helen Styles, Regional Manager, Health Safety & Prevention Program Governance, Northern Health
Broadleaf was amazingly responsive to our needs as a small funder of non-profits around the province.
-Jennifer Alsop, Evaluation Analyst, Community Action Initiative
Introducing Our New Logo: A Fresh Perspective on Insight and Impact
Our new logo symbolizes our role in supporting clients through change and innovate. The logo is part of a new colour palette, offering more options for high contrast, accessible ways to present information. The interwoven layers reflect the complexity and depth of our insights, inspired by the organic pattern of a leaf. This evolution highlights our commitment to delivering nuanced consulting services in planning, evaluation, governance, facilitation, and training for non-profits, government entities, crown corporations, and foundations.
Responsive, insightful, quality service and support. Broadleaf had a positive and realistic approach to complexities while supporting excellence. We valued positive and respectful interactions with us – individually and collectively – Broadleaf made the process work smoothly for us.
– Sunshine Coast Division of Family Practice
Services
Planning
Turn ideas into actionable strategies. We specialize in strategic plans, project planning, and budget development tailored to your organization’s unique needs.
Facilitation
Make meetings matter. Our facilitation services support teams, decision-making, governance, and board processes to ensure meaningful discussions and effective outcomes.
Training
Empower your team with our customized training services. We provide practical skills and insights to enhance collaboration and performance across various topics.
Evaluation
Measure and enhance your impact. We offer comprehensive evaluation services, including planning and conducting evaluations, and designing evaluation frameworks.
Let's Talk
Ready to see how we can support your organization? Contact us through our form, and let’s start a conversation about how Broadleaf Consulting can help you.
Sarah was professional, helpful and provided a quality product. I value her ability to work together, add value to my own expertise and help us find new ways to look at data. I would definitely recommend Sarah.
-Michelle Laurie, Lead Facilitator, Trail Area Health & Environment Committee
Guiding Principles
We believe in the power of understanding different perspectives. By fostering open conversation and encouraging feedback, we facilitate processes that respect diverse voices. Our purpose is to align intentions and actions, helping organizations achieve their mission and make meaningful impacts in their communities.
Sarah was delightful to work with. The ideas and insights she brought were creative, innovative, and very pertinent to our goals and needs. Sarah was always very prompt in responding to us, and was highly collaborative in all aspects of our work together. She was very professional, patient and flexible in her role. Sarah not only brought a wealth of expertise and skill to our work together, but she is also a very warm, kind, and considerate individual.
-Client
Supporting Organizations from Insight to Action
At Broadleaf Consulting, we partner with government and crown agencies, nonprofits, health authorities and foundations to bring clarity and focus to your projects. Our tailored approach helps organizations navigate complex challenges, make data-informed decisions, scale what works, and achieve sustainable outcomes. Whether you’re leading change in health, community, environment, or other sectors, we’re here to support your vision every step of the way.
Our clients say we make data engaging and help them see the full scope of their impact.
Attention to detail, ability to build trusting relationships, knowledge of local context and history – these are just some of the strengths of Broadleaf. I appreciate the clarity of writing & effective communication in all the evaluation products to date as well as the ability to condense findings to serve different user groups/target audiences. Sarah also excels at presentations of material both in person and over video conference… Sarah worked to generate a report with clear, actionable findings to help advance the work.
-Andrew Leyland, Senior Analyst, Doctors of BC
Sarah’s ability to hear our story, pull together all of the qualitative and quantitative data and compose a report that is clear, accurate and can inform future learnings and activities. She was also able to articulate some of the issues that were highly political, with sensitivity and political astuteness.
-Client
Our Impact
We’ve helped organizations:
Strategies and Actions
Articulate their vision and decide on strategies and actions to get there.
Easy-to-understand
Present complex data in an easy-to-understand way.
Visualize Impacts
Visualize their impact on communities and individuals.
Actionable insights
Transform raw information into actionable insights.
Founder and Principal
Sarah Farina is the founder of Broadleaf Consulting, where she empowers organizations in health and community development to achieve their goals through strategic planning, governance innovation, and evaluation. Passionate about building inclusive, authentic systems and communities, Sarah is an adaptive leader and skilled facilitator known for her collaborative approaches with non-profits, governments, and funders. Sarah’s expertise turns aspirations into actionable plans and impactful results.
Credentials
Master’s in Planning – Credentialed Evaluator – Certified Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners – Registered Professional Planner
Recent leadership
President of the Canadian Evaluation Society – Treasurer of International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation – Chair of EvalPartners Task Force supporting the landmark 2023 UN Resolution on Evaluation
Sarah’s flexibility to accommodate our requests was amazing, and the end result showed great quality.
-Andrea Waldern, Strategic Lead, Northern Health
Services
Planning
Turn ideas into actionable strategies. We specialize in strategic plans, project planning, and budget development tailored to your organization’s unique needs.
Broadleaf offered a thorough understanding of our organization’s needs and provided timely responses, effective communication, excellent support and resource sharing.
-Client
As always, great facilitation. I know some of the conversations are tough…
-Workshop participant
Lots of opportunity to discuss our projects and practically apply the tools to our own work.
-Workshop participant
Facilitation
Make meetings matter. Our facilitation services support teams, decision-making, governance, and board processes to ensure meaningful discussions and effective outcomes.
This safe open and authentic dialogue, that creation of a place where people feel confidence in sharing truths, this is so important.
-Workshop participant
Sarah did a WONDERFUL job at changing things on the fly and allowing lots of time for conversation and networking. She allowed us to converse about whatever came up event if it was somewhat off topic and didn’t get flustered.
-Workshop participant
Training
Empower your team with our customized training services. We provide practical skills and insights to enhance collaboration and performance across various topics.
Sarah had such a wide range of experiences to share and was able to pull out relevant examples in response to audience questions. She also made the work seem doable for multiple contexts.
-Workshop participant
Working with Broadleaf Consulting was an excellent experience. The project took longer than expected due to our organization wanting multiple revisions, and the development of the guide being an idea that needed to come to fruition. Sarah incorporated all of the feedback, ideas and made helpful suggestions that produced a guide that we are excited to share with our stakeholders.
-Erin Lutz, Manager,
Team Based Care Service Delivery, Doctors of BC
Evaluation
Measure and enhance your impact. We offer comprehensive evaluation services, including planning and conducting evaluations, and designing evaluation frameworks.
Excellent knowledge of evaluation, helpful strategic suggestions, excellent evaluation report, responsive to requests.
-Liza Kallstrom, Manager,
Government Relations and Policy, BC Chiropractic Association
Knowledge of evaluation planning is really good. Honest, transparent approach and style. Good facilitator.
-Leanne Sexsmith
Why Choose Us?
At Broadleaf Consulting, we’re more than consultants —we’re collaborators. Our tailored approach adapts to the unique needs of each client, ensuring our solutions are as dynamic and adaptable as the challenges you face. We work with your team to make data meaningful, helping you see how your efforts translate into real-world impacts.
Very open and collaborative…anchors work solidly to meet the objectives.
-Katie Hill, Director, Shared Care Committee, Doctors of BC
Creative, flexible, organized, responsive and knowledgeable.
-Melanie Conn, Threadworks Project Team member, Threadworks
Let's Connect !
We’d love to hear from you. Whether you have questions, need more information, or are ready to start a conversation, we’re here to help. Fill out the contact form, and we’ll get back to you shortly.
Very personable, great communication and easy to work with. Very responsive to requests and flexible approach.
-Tracy Miyashita, Project Manager,
Ridge Meadows Division of Family Practice
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