Who We Are

We will provide you with strategic services to build your internal capacity to implement meaningful public engagement to inform sustainable decisions.

We are passionate about empowering your public role to inform decisions, shape processes and develop policies that create vibrant organizations and communities.

Pattie LaCroix, MA – President

As President of the International Institute of Public Engagement, Pattie draws upon more than 20 years of strategic communications and stakeholder engagement experience in public and social sectors.

Pattie has worked on projects in Canada, the US, Africa and south Asia. Pattie has most recently developed a strategy to support Metro Vancouver’s transportation and transit authority’s first online public consultation. She is currently engaged by BC Transit to design a public engagement strategy to inform its long-term transit future planning.

Pattie is CEO of Catapult Media offering strategic and communications planning services to organizations around the world. A frequent conference speaker, her experience in strategic planning, facilitation, professional coaching and communications planning richly inform her approach to public engagement.

Pattie is on the National Board of Directors of the Canadian Community of Dialogue and Deliberation. She is a member of the International Association of Public Participation and the world alliance for citizen participation, CIVICUS.

Her work is framed by the principles of Appreciative Inquiry and often focuses on the power of storytelling as a springboard for creating context for meaningful engagement. Pattie is founder of the storyworks project which aims to build the strategic narrative capacity of organizations to better engage their constituencies.

A frequent online columnist, she is currently doing research for her new book entitled “Capturing the Idea of Change: Why Stories Matter.”

IIPE ASSOCIATES

Leo Dillman – Senior Associate

Leo has a life-long commitment to engaging citizens in shaping their future, the future of their communities as vital to good governance and sustainable development. Leo has over 30 years working in the public and private sectors and has provided leadership and strategic advice on the development of public engagement to an array of nations and regions.

Leo is the Executive Director of the innovative arms-length provincial agency Voluntary Planning Nova Scotia. Here he has provided long-term policy and strategic advice to the provincial Cabinet based upon citizen-centered public consultations. Leo has been instrumental in shaping this internationally-renowned and unique public engagement model ensuring public input informs government decision-making.

He has provided strategic leadership on such projects as the Natural Resources Strategy for Nova Scotia, the Non-Resident Land Ownership and Heritage Strategy public consultation processes.

Leo has been recognized nationally and internationally for his ground-breaking public engagement work. He is a frequent conference speaker and guest lecturer, a Board Director of the International Association of Public Participation. He is a member of the US-based National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation and the Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation.

Leo is fascinated by the power that public engagement can bring in addressing such important world issues as public safety and security in both developing and developed countries.

One World Inc.

As an Associate of the International Institute of Public Engagement, One World Inc. is committed to the innovative design and delivery of engagement processes that can help effectively interact with your stakeholders or the public at large. One World Inc. uses proven and innovative dialogue-based techniques to help you get the input, engagement and process you need to develop effective policies and programs and make sustainable decisions.