Grow Beyond Grants®: Your Growth Engine for Social Impact
Our Mission
Empower your organization to grow profitably and sustainably.
Social enterprises and nonprofits can build models that aren’t dependent on grants or short-term funding. With profit strategies, skills training, mentorship, and community support, your organization can expand its impact with confidence and long-term stability.
Our Vision & Values
You have the power to build a profitable, sustainable organization that grows beyond grants. With the right skills, mentorship, and community, you can create lasting impact and lead with confidence.
Community: Stronger together, creating impact through collaboration.
Skills: Building the capacity needed for lasting, sustainable growth.
Allyship: Standing together to support, uplift, and create change.
Innovation: Embracing new ideas that drive progress and purpose.
Our Services
Change Management Consulting
Support your organization through growth and transition with tailored strategies that strengthen resilience, alignment, and impact.
Services include: organizational assessments, change strategy design, and communication planning for leadership teams.
Leadership & Team Development
Build confident, future-ready leaders who can guide teams through change with empathy and clarity.
Services include: inclusive leadership training, strategic facilitation, and executive development workshops.
Growth Strategy for Social Enterprises
Transform your mission into a sustainable model that creates profit and purpose.
Services include: business model redesign, earned revenue strategy, and operational sustainability planning.
EDI & Culture Integration
Embed equity, diversity, and inclusion into your organization’s growth strategy to strengthen culture and attract values-aligned talent, partners, and funders.
Services include: EDI strategy, inclusive policy design, and leadership alignment sessions.
Mentorship & Community Programs
Join a network of changemakers committed to shared learning and collaboration.
Programs include: mastermind groups, community learning circles, and The ChangeMaker Community Podcast.
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Training & Workshops – custom learning experiences for teams and boards.
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Speaking Engagements – keynotes and panels on change management, inclusive growth, and future-ready leadership.
For more information contact: leigh@leighmitchell.ca
@ChangeMakerCo.Org
Change Management, Leadership & Growth Strategy for Social Enterprise Leaders
Hi I’m Leigh Mitchell
Running a social enterprise can feel isolating. Growth slows when leaders try to navigate change without the right support.
With us by your side, Impact-driven organizations and their teams will strengthen leadership, manage change effectively, and will receive growth strategies that are inclusive, sustainable, and impactful.
Through my work at ChangeMakerCo.org, social enterprises move beyond funding dependency by building skills, community, and confidence to grow with long-term stability.
Our approach integrates change management, leadership development, and growth strategy—grounded in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).
With over 15 years of experience working with grassroots initiatives and Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft Canada, TELUS, and TD, we bring practical insights to leaders navigating complex transitions. My work has been
I also teach Business and Digital Marketing at York University and the University of Guelph-Humber, and host The ChangeMaker Community Podcast, where I share tools and stories that help leaders build resilient, connected organizations.
Recognized by Statistics Canada as an EDI subject matter expert and honoured with the Forbes Impact Top 10 Award, I’m passionate about helping social enterprises grow profitably, inclusively, and with impact.
For more information contact: leigh@leighmitchell.ca
@ChangeMakerCo.Org
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Our Clients & Testimonials
ChangeMaker Collective and Women in Biz Network recognize and honour the traditional owners of the lands on which we operate, now known as Canada, the United States, and worldwide. From the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to the Native American tribes of Turtle Island and Indigenous communities globally, we acknowledge their enduring connection to their territories.
We also acknowledge the generations of African peoples throughout the diaspora who have endured the systemic, pervasive, and damaging impacts of white supremacy over the past 400 years. As a tree is connected to its roots, we honour our African heritage, the resilience, creativity, and relentless striving for equality and justice. We acknowledge that African history is rich with wisdom and is much deeper than the tragedy that began through colonialism and slavery. May our future generations be empowered to continue the work of ensuring the human rights of all Black peoples are upheld, respected, and advanced.