What do you want in a consultant? Someone who can do good quality work, on time, on budget, who is easy to get along with and cares about you and your projects. That is what we deliver.

Marika Morris Consulting was founded as social enterprise in 2015 by Dr. Marika Morris, who wanted to use her 30 years of experience to do good. Based in Ottawa, Canada, we work locally, provincially, nationally and internationally with government departments and agencies, businesses, Indigenous organizations (particularly Inuit organizations), unions, and not-for-profit organizations on issues such as equity, mental health, violence prevention, Indigenous issues, employment, and evidence-based, equitable public and organizational policy. We can apply Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) to policies and programs. We have sliding scale pricing for small not-for-profit organizations. Check with us if your project or organization qualifies for a discount. We contribute a certain amount of pro bono work per year to worthwhile projects.

Most of our work is repeat business and referrals from our regular clients.
This is a partial list of some of our clients and projects:

• Canadian Cancer Society – background and qualitative research across Inuit homelands and urban areas about Inuit smoking, smoking cessation activities and needs
• Canadian Union of Public Employees – participatory action research training workshop
• Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children –six-year developmental evaluation of Knowledge Hub project, two consecutive evaluations of Learning Network project
• Government of Alberta – training for public servants on using GBA+
• Interdepartmental Circles on Indigenous Representation (Government of Canada) – academic and organizational literature review of best practices for Indigenous recruitment and retention, presentation for government officials
• Informed Opinions – quantitative analysis and report on gender of sources in Canadian media; qualitative research with corporate recruiters and event planners
• Library and Archives Canada – developing elements of an equity-based analysis policy and tool for applying equity-based analysis to programs, practices and initiatives
• Mental Health Commission of Canada – research and interviews regarding the possibility of the development of a youth-specific Inuit mental health program; research on promoting an existing Inuit program to men
• Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated – series of analyses relating to Inuit employment
• Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada – backgrounders for Inuit participation in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls; research (qualitative interviews across Arctic and background research) to feed into a violence prevention and healing strategy; background research for an Inuit-specific GBA+ of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, revising a training manual for Inuit women’s shelter workers, co-facilitating an intersectoral meeting on Inuit child sexual abuse, preparing a communications and action plan on child sexual abuse
• Stepped Care Solutions 2.0 – GBA+ of a mental health program, including interviews with program partners and presentation for managers and staff
• Tungasuvvingat Inuit – development of Inuit history and culture modules for use in Grades 4-10 in Ontario schools
• United Nations Development Programme – gender mainstreaming in public institutions; gender equality data collection; analysis of a proposed assessment tool for measuring gender equality in public institutions
• Women’s Shelters Canada – researching and writing a report on impact on social determinants of health of a gender-based violence strategy; assistance in developing a quantitative survey; assistance in hiring a Research Coordinator
• YWCA NWT and the Pan-territorial Women’s Shelters Network – developing six video training modules for intimate partner violence shelter workers in the territories, developing handbooks for in-person and virtual training, delivered in-person training for women’s shelter workers in Nunavut, NWT and Yukon. The project included conducting 19 video-recorded interviews with shelter workers and key informants across the territories and creating and recording information panels to be presented between interview clips.

We value our clients, stakeholders and research participants. We value making a contribution to improving people’s lives.