ABOUT ELEVATEWORK

Elevating the Way We

Work Together

ElevateWork helps leaders, teams, and organizations navigate complexity, strengthen collaboration, and unlock the collective intelligence needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Based in Canada and working internationally, we partner with purpose-driven, leaders to elevate the world of work.

PARTNERSHIP WITH PURPOSE

Elevating The Way You Work Together

We support conscious leaders in making a difference through their work. Together with you and your team, we uncover the secret ingredients that elevate performance while grounding it in a highly engaged, cohesive, and collaborative culture.

Our ideal partners are purpose-oriented leaders who know there is a better way to do business and want to return to the roots of why organizations exist: to create value for employees, customers, communities, shareholders, and the planet.

We can work with your teams on location in Canada and are highly skilled at online facilitation and online Open Space events that bring a new level of connection, participation, and collaboration to virtual meetings.

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If you are looking for a partner to expand the connection, engagement, capacity, and vitality of your team, we would love to hear from you.

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Portrait of Richard Schultz, founder of ElevateWork

Richard brings possibility thinking, bridge building, and a powerful presence that opens space for deep transformation.

FOUNDER PROFILE

Meet Richard Schultz

Richard spent more than fifteen years in the corporate technology sector, working in sales and account management roles with IBM and other software organizations. While successful professionally, he became increasingly interested in a deeper question: What allows people, teams, and organizations to thrive?

That inquiry led him into decades of study and practice in leadership, facilitation, organizational development, dialogue, coaching, and personal transformation. Today, he helps leaders and organizations create the conditions for meaningful participation, collective intelligence, and lasting change.

Richard’s favorite group processes include Open Space Technology and Bohm Dialogue. For personal transformation, he facilitates shadow-work as a way to reconnect people to the whole of their brilliance and bring their authentic gifts into action.

QUALIFICATIONS AND FRAMEWORKS

Depth Of Practice, Breadth Of Tools

Richard’s work is grounded in extensive training and experience as a leader, facilitator, and coach. He draws on a constellation of proven frameworks to support whole-system transformation. His work integrates Open Space Technology, Bohm Dialogue, Genuine Contact™, Cultural Transformation Tools, Spiral Dynamics Integral, and leadership development practices that help organizations strengthen participation, collaboration, and collective intelligence.

The Genuine Contact(tm) Program

Certified Trainer and past Co-Owner of the Genuine Contact Program, a whole person and whole system approach that trusts people and teams already have the answers to complex problems and helps that collective wisdom emerge.

Co-Active Coaching

Trained in the Co-Active Coaching model, a powerful partnership approach that supports leaders in creating desired change while harvesting the wisdom, balance, and resilience inherent in their life and work experiences.

Open Space Technology

Experienced facilitator of Open Space Technology, a highly participative methodology that enables groups to self-organize around what matters most, generating engagement, ownership, innovation, and meaningful action.

Bohm Dialogue

Experienced facilitator of Bohm Dialogue, a powerful practice that helps groups uncover assumptions, deepen understanding, and develop the collective capacity to think together in the face of complex challenges.

Cultural Transformation Tools

Certified practitioner of Cultural Transformation Tools, an assessment-based framework that helps organizations understand values, strengthen culture, align priorities, and support long-term organizational effectiveness.

Spiral Dynamics Integral

Trained in Spiral Dynamics Integral, a developmental framework that explores the underlying worldviews shaping individual, team, and organizational behavior, helping leaders work more effectively with complexity and change.

A Different View of leadership

Expanding What Is

Possibile!

For more than three decades, Richard has explored what enables individuals, teams, and organizations to realize their potential. His work is grounded in the belief that meaningful change emerges when people become more aware of the assumptions shaping their actions and learn to engage one another with greater openness, trust, and responsibility.

Rather than focusing solely on problems, he helps people discover new possibilities, strengthen relationships, and create the conditions for collective intelligence to emerge.

Beyond the Work

Life, Community &

Adventure

Growing up in Saskatchewan, Canada, Richard has made his home between Calgary, Germany, New Brunswick and now Vancouver Island. He loves the outdoors: hiking in the mountains, cycling, camping, and exploring our marvelous planet.

Travel has been a constant companion, often for months or years at a time. He makes frequent trips to Europe, but his favorite journeys tend to be to places like India, where soulful adventures and unexpected mysteries are always waiting.

Richard's facilitation helped establish Greater Moncton as an International City of Peace. He has also facilitated Peace Cafés locally and online, extending his commitment to community and collective well-being.

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Elevate the Way You

Work Together

Based in Canada and working internationally, Richard partners with leaders, teams, and organizations seeking more effective ways to collaborate, engage collective intelligence, and navigate complexity.