WHAT WE DO

Forrest & Company Limited is an organizational transformation firm that helps you achieve your Strategy of your Organization through consulting, coaching, and training.

We are experts in identifying, developing, and releasing the potential in leaders and their organizations, ultimately providing our clients with a strategic competitive advantage.

We engage our clients closely through our expertise in examining leaders, organizations, and issues at all levels – strategic, operational, and tactical. We also develop solutions, working with our clients from initiation through implementation. The result is dramatically improved performance and accelerated achievement of strategy.

Forrest is a full-service firm. Through consultation, training, coaching, and facilitation, we offer our clients the most effective integrated system available for organizational, team, and individual transformation.

We help our clients in:

Developing strategy and planning implementation;
Optimizing organizational structure and clarifying role accountabilities; and
Developing leadership and management ability.

During consultations, we believe that you have answers and we have the questions. Our role is to challenge your thinking for you to explore and grow your business.

In coaching, it is our belief that our role is to create awareness in our clients and then enable them to identify choices to achieve their goals while helping them trust their decisions, which is done with the client's manager in service of the organization’s strategy.

Through facilitation, we make it easy to tap into the wisdom and experiences of our clients' people. Through thoughtful inquiry, uncovering of issues and ensuring every voice is heard, we ensure no stone is left unturned or sacred idea unchallenged.

During training, we focus both on increasing the skill sets of our clients and developing them for future roles to grow their organizations.

Ultimately, we utilize the most practical technologies to assist personal, team, and organizational growth. Specifically, we value simulation to create true experiences to enable repetition of the learning back in the workspace.

Our job is to help you think, and we guide all of our clients using the best methodologies to make decisions, plan to achieve their strategy, and sell their ideas.

Services Offered

Accountability Consulting

We facilitate strategic thinking to clarify, develop, plan and implement your strategy. Once strategy and implementation are clearly articulated, we provide clarity on organizational levels and roles and how to best populate them.

Leadership Training

To be effective, leaders and managers require specific abilities. We provide flexible and scalable programming on the skills and best practices of managerial leadership.

Effectiveness Coaching

Discover the potential in your executives. For over 30 years and with over a thousand executives, Forrest has used its proven executive coaching model to help executives solve complex issues, leverage strengths and overcome barriers. The breadth and versatility of our professional coaching team allows us to match you with the best coach for your needs. We are also experts at a large inventory of tested assessment and personal planning tools. A typical Forrest coaching engagement consists of twice-monthly, in-person sessions and a monthly telephone debrief, and are from three to six months in length.

Effective Thinking Development

Gain valuable insights into yourself and your team, and improve performance through the use of a proven thinking model.

Forrest's Effective Thinking Development is based on over 30 years of research on Effective Intelligence™ (EI™), the work of the Dutch electronics giant Philips and British consultant Jerry Rhodes, that revealed the mechanics of thinking in organizations.

EI gives leaders and teams a powerful tool for working with others constructively and developing and communicating ideas effectively. EI also enables you to achieve the best solutions every time by using the right kind of thinking for each task.

EI is a simple modular and scalable system that integrates with any existing corporate culture and constructs - in fact, it works with anyone, anywhere, at any time. You can immediately start using this candid, practical approach in your workplace.

The Forrest Human Resource Business Partner Program

Dramatically increase the value your HRBP team delivers to the business. By adopting an experience-based framework of business partnering best practices, develop the behaviors and capabilities of your team, making them powerful internal consultants to the line.

The Forrest HRBP Program, based on our 30+ years of real-world experience working with HR, builds on universally recognized consulting methodologies.

Design & Customization

The Forrest team includes world-class program-design capability that enables us to develop solutions beyond our current product line. Starting from our foundation methodologies and using our extensive experience and expertise, we can design solutions for whatever are your organizational, team, or individual challenges.

This also means that we have the ability to customize any Forrest product or service to fit your requirements, including adaptations based on your corporate competencies, language and graphic standards, the addition of assessments or personal planning tools, and delivery formats customized to your needs.

Forrest Immersive Simulations

Hone the bargaining skills of your teams, test their mettle in challenging situations, and immerse them in realistic scenarios built around our detailed and purpose-built simulation environment. Using pre-built or custom scenarios and industry experts to add realism, Forrest's Simulation Environment prepares any team in a safe and controlled manner ranging from a few hours to multiple days.

The Leadership Path

The Leadership Path (TLP™) is the most powerful individual leadership and management development program available. Graduates accelerate their organizations’ achievement of strategy by emerging from the program with exceptional and integrated abilities in both leadership and management.

The Leadership Path

A year-long managerial leadership development experience for candidates director-level and above.
Begins with a five-day offsite workshop focusing on leadership development.
- Incorporates 5 assessment tools, including a 360° assessment.
A three-day offsite seven months later focuses on developing management ability and integrating the learning from both workshops.
- Features an additional 360° assessment to measure progress.
Over the twelve months, there are five one-on-one coaching sessions that reinforce and broaden the lessons learned in the workshops.

Purpose and Objective

The purpose of TLP is to prepare participants for the next level in their careers by developing their leadership and management capabilities and integrating those capabilities into resilient managerial leadership.

Ideal Participants

Experienced managers – director-level and up – looking to reflect, refocus, retool and recommit to their work
TLP is most often used:
- As a development program for high-potentials
- For managers newly promoted to an executive role
- To re-energize a valued seasoned manager

How To Work With Us

A partnership with Forrest & Company is just that. We stand by our credo of “engage the client more closely” to ensure every engagement is carried out with the utmost attention and dedication.

At Forrest, we pride ourselves on being able to accurately triage a client’s needs and find the right resources for the task at hand. We boast an extensive roster of consultants, coaches, and facilitators, with years of field experience, spanning multiple sectors and industries, from which we can bring to bear the full weight of our understanding to meet our client’s needs.

We begin every engagement with an exploratory call with stakeholders to drill down into the pain points and identify the crux of the need. Once we identify the true root issues, we can then begin to design the client engagement and assign the appropriate Forrest resources to support it.

For coaching engagements, we offer three suggestions to match your needs and provide “fit meetings” at no cost to ensure that the selected coach not only suits the engagement requirements, but suits the person.

Once the relationship is confirmed, we will provide you with a comprehensive proposal or statement of work, outlining the suggested engagement and preliminary design, and expected costs. Once accepted, from there, the work proper begins.

Communication is key. At every step, we will ensure that we are in lockstep with you as to needs and wants, and adjust or pivot as needed. Strong change and project management will be applied to every engagement, as we work to ensure the client is always satisfied.

Throughout every interaction, we live by our values. The terms “respect”, “honesty”, “provide an exceptional experience”, and “growth” are values every Forrest member keeps at the forefront of every interaction with clients. We provide our clients with what they need, not what they want.

Through confidential, professional, detailed engagement, we work with you to meet your organizational priorities with lasting impact.

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Previous & Current Clients

Alectra

Aspire Bakeries

BMO Financial Group

BMO Nesbitt Burns

Bombardier Aerospace

Brookfield Office Properties

Burgundy Asset Management Ltd.

Cadillac Fairview

Cameron Stephens

Canada Health Infoway

Canadian Institute of Actuaries

Canadian Opera Company

Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Canadian Tire Corporation

CGI Group Inc.

Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario)

CIBC

College of Physiotherapists

Compass Canada

Cosmetica Laboratories Inc.

Dominion Voting

Dundee Precious Metals

Egan International

Electrical Safety Authority

Electrical Power Systems Construction Association (EPSCA)

Element Fleet Management Corporation

Enbridge Gas

Enercare

Figure3

First Capital Realty

First United Church Community Ministry Society (Vancouver)

Foresters Financial

Genworth Financial

Geosoft

Great-West Life

Habitat for Humanity

HIDI Group

Home Depot

Honda Canada

Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA)

HSBC Bank Canada

Hudson’s Bay

Hydro One

Hydro Ottawa

IAMGOLD

International Group, Inc. (IGI)

LifeLabs

Loblaw Companies Limited

Lowes

LoyaltyOne

Manulife Financial

Marketwired

MCAP

Meridian Credit Union

Minto Group

Modern Niagara

North West Company

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)

Olympus Canada

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

OpenText

Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities

Parkland Fuels

Princess Auto

Regent Law

Richardson GMP

RSA Insurance

Scotiabank

Shell Canada

SIM Group

Starbucks Canada

Sun Life Financial

Takeda Canada

TD Canada Trust

Tim Hortons (TDL Group)

Tridel

TSC Stores

Univar Canada

University of Toronto Press

Victorian Order of Nurses (VON)

Wajax

Warner Bros.

Why Us

For over 35 years, Forrest & Company Limited has been a trusted resource for leadership and organizational development and has shared success with over 30,000 leaders world-wide. What is at the core of our success? Why have we grown and succeeded when so many others haven’t? What makes Forrest so special?

1 What We Do Works

We have been successful for more than 35 years because what we do has been successful for more than 35 years; Forrest brings to clients effective solutions to their organizational and leadership development challenges. We are a full-service provider with the expertise and resources to help our clients at any level, which means not only at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels, but also at organizational, team, and individual levels. Based on candid, informed, and direct conversations, we provide our clients with the best products and services that result in pragmatic, effective results.

2 Accountability

We believe that at the very heart of organizational and individual success is managerial accountability. This is the startlingly powerful principle that, when properly implemented, releases enormous potential in organizations that will propel them to the achievement of their goals. It is based on the idea that managers must manage and leaders must lead; that they must, with humility, respect and resolve, fulfill their sacred trust with those that work for and with them.

3 Thinking Development

We are experts in the mechanics of thinking as we have identified the means by which we can make visible the invisible act of thinking. Effective Intelligence™ puts labels and a language to the constituent parts of thinking, showing us how to dramatically improve results. We teach clients to consciously direct the correct thinking to the correct task or interaction, thereby enhancing effectiveness.

4 We Have Integrated Accountability and Thinking

We integrated two science-based development systems: Requisite Organization, with its focus on accountability, and Effective Intelligence, with its focus on thinking in a business context. Our real-world experience and our focus on practical solutions led us to these two systems and provided Forrest with science-based foundations.

5 We Look At The Whole Organization

Whatever your particular challenge, Forrest will invite you to step back and look at the big picture of your organization. We have discovered that to be truly effective, leadership and organizational development must happen simultaneously because two are connected, and for long-term success development in one area must be paralleled in the other. We enter into these discussions because we are confident both in our expertise at holistic needs-analysis and at the value of our products and services.

6 Great Pragmatic People

The foundation of the process by which Forrest creates real-world opportunities for our clients is the real-world expertise of our people. We very carefully select the members of our team based on their front-line experience and expertise. As such, all members of the Forrest team must demonstrate a no-nonsense, pragmatic approach to helping our clients achieve their goals. We firmly believe that the extensive experience of our consultants, facilitators, coaches, trainers and designers trump's academic theory every time.

7 Our Values

One reason we encourage our clients to take their value statements seriously is that we do ourselves. The terms “respect”, “honesty”, “provide an exceptional experience”, and “growth” are values every Forrest member keeps at the forefront of every interaction with clients. We are particularly proud of our Honesty:

We say what is on our mind.
We provide our clients with what they need, not what they want.
We listen, be frank and tell the truth even if it hurts.
We burrow to the heart of an issue and don’t let anything slip off the table.
We are watertight. We keep our clients' confidence.