Building on over 25 years of experience working with executives from for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, we provide strategic and senior level support to help meet your business needs. Our dedicated and reliable consultancy services include:

• Strategic and operational planning
• Organizational alignment (structure, processes, skills)
• Governance and accountability
• Change management

With extensive governance  and executive level experience, and expertise developing and leading large interdisciplinary teams, we design and deliver customized training sessions for emerging leaders, senior leadership, their staff and boards. This includes retreats, team-building, and regulatory compliance. No size is too small or too large. Virtual training sessions can also be deployed to meet your needs.

To help advance your business goals, we offer executive level support with:

• Strategic communications
• Stakeholder engagement
• Facilitation
• Event coordination
• Government relations
• Proposal writing

We provide both 1:1 and team sessions, helping individuals and organizations realize their potential, overcome barriers to success and maximize their leadership ability. We take a values-based, holistic approach, and support the advancement of of client goals as a partner in accountability. We specialize in catalyzing positive impacts and optimizing performance. The practice also includes support for career planning and transitions aligned with values and purpose… and reflects support for entrepreneurs who are dealing with start-up or growth-related issues.

Vania Sakelaris, the founder of VAS & Associates Inc. is a respected and collaborative leader that supports systems, organizations, and people in the process of fostering and managing growth and change. She has seasoned experience at the regional, provincial, national and global levels. She is well-versed in government policy and relations and specializes in service based industries including healthcare, financial, professional services and education. Her professional portfolio has included progressive leadership experience from small start-up organizations to billion-dollar agencies. She has led the design and implementation of many transformative and innovative multi-million dollar system-level strategies benefiting people and organizations around the world.

Vania has a passion for empowering leaders and emerging leaders, and for catalyzing positive impact. She is committed to lifelong learning and provides mentorship to university students and entrepreneurs based on her professional and transformational journey. Her passion for capacity building has been reflected throughout her career and inspired her coaching work. She shares this with leaders and emerging leaders as a public speaker and also as a university lecturer and case writer.

Vania works with her associates to deliver quality services customized to meet clients’ unique and diverse needs.

Based in Toronto, Ontario Canada, Vania and her team work with teams across Canada, the US and internationally.