Tina Lopes

Tina Lopes is an organizational development consultant, facilitator and mediator, skilled in promoting organizational change processes. Since 1990, she has maintained a broad practice, collaborating with people who want to change the systems, structures, policies and cultures of their organizations. Working with governments, community agencies, human service organizations, unions and agencies serving women, Tina develops processes for organizational change, conflict mediation and human rights policies. She also facilitates strategic planning, team building and broad development sessions for salaried and volunteer groups. Tina specializes in conducting systems reviews and creating change processes that are customized to the needs of the organization. In her work as an independent consultant, Tina has established herself as a facilitator skilled at designing participatory processes that strengthen a group’s capacity for dialogue and collective action. A key aspect of her approach is to ensure that the organization builds in mechanisms for continuing the work past the life of the project As s an Access and Equity Consultant with the former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Tina successfully shaped organizational interventions that increased the commitment to human rights and equity policies among managers and unionized staff. Tina also significantly improved the curriculum for staff development on human rights and brings a critical approach to diversity initiatives. Tina continues to research the connections between social transformation, organizational change and spirituality.