A Mission-Driven Business Advancing Health Equity

Who We Are

Northern Health Equity Consulting is a newly founded mission-driven business that exists to advance health equity across northern and remote Canada. Incorporated on June 25, 2025, we're building something different – not your typical healthcare consultants in suits, but professional badasses in jeans and sneakers who transform healthcare systems through authentic partnership and sustainable business practices.

Our unique approach combines professional expertise with lived experience, creating solutions that actually work for northern communities. We operate as a for-profit corporation not to maximize wealth, but to ensure long-term sustainability for community benefit through our transparent cross-subsidy model.

Our Mission

We partner with healthcare organizations, research institutions, communities, and social determinant organizations to advance health equity in northern and remote communities across Canada through research, evidence-based consulting, meaningful engagement across all stakeholders, and transformative organizational change that centers lived experience and addresses systemic barriers to equitable care and wellbeing. We operate as a sustainable business that cross-subsidizes community benefit through market-rate work with well-funded institutions.

Our Vision

Health equity across northern and remote Canada, where all residents have equal opportunities for health and wellbeing regardless of geography, identity, or social determinants of health—supported by sustainable consulting practices that ensure long-term community impact.

Our Core Values

Lived Experience as Expertise

Those who have navigated healthcare systems as patients, caregivers, and community members bring irreplaceable insights that must be centered in healthcare improvement efforts. Our business model ensures these voices are heard regardless of ability to pay.

Northern Identity

We understand the unique challenges and strengths of northern and remote communities across Canada—vast geography, diverse populations, resource constraints, and remarkable resilience. Our solutions are designed for northern realities, not adapted from southern models.

Authentic Partnership

We practice genuine collaboration that brings together patients, families, communities, healthcare providers, researchers, policy makers, and system leaders as valued partners. Our approach ensures all stakeholders work together as equals to create sustainable change.

Evidence-Informed Action

We ground our work in rigorous research while recognizing that evidence includes both data and lived experience. We develop and implement research methodologies that center community knowledge, addressing the diverse health challenges facing northern communities.

Cultural Responsiveness

We honor the diverse communities of northern and remote Canada, including Indigenous peoples, Francophone populations, and newcomers, by ensuring our approaches respect cultural ways of knowing and address specific community needs.

Economic Justice

We believe professional expertise deserves fair compensation AND that economic barriers should never prevent access to health equity support. Our cross-subsidy model enables both professional sustainability and community accessibility.

Why Our Business Model Matters

Authentic Sustainability, Not Just Profit

Let's address the elephant in the room: Yes, we're a for-profit business doing health equity work. Here's why that authentically serves our mission:

Professional expertise deserves fair compensation AND economic barriers should never prevent access to health equity support. Our cross-subsidy model achieves both by enabling premium healthcare organizations to fund community access to professional-level health equity support.

Our Corporate Structure

Built for Mission Protection: Newly Incorporated on June 25, 2025, as an Ontario corporation designed for B-Corp transition, ensuring community benefit commitments are embedded in our governance from day one while enabling business growth and liability protection.

Clear Vision from the Start: 100% ownership by Founding Director maintains mission alignment and decision-making clarity while enabling future revenue-sharing partnerships with like-minded consultants as we grow.

Cross-Subsidy by Design: Premium rates from well-funded institutions will ensure business viability while funding reduced-rate and pro bono community services through transparent, accountable systems we're currently developing.

Building a Mission-Driven Network

We're not just building a consulting practice – we're creating infrastructure for lasting health equity transformation across northern Canada. Starting from incorporation on June 25, 2025, we have a clear roadmap for sustainable growth.

Phase 1: Foundation (2025-2026) - Establishing methodology, community accountability systems, and proven track record with transparent reinvestment in business development and community benefit.

Phase 2: Network Expansion (2027+) - Scaling impact through values-aligned consultant partnerships using NHEC methodology and brand standards.

The Consultant Network Vision

Philosophy: Mission-driven professional family – not just business contractors, but values-aligned partners committed to shared mission and community benefit.

Future Structure: Independent consultant partnerships with revenue sharing (not equity participation), maintaining high operational freedom within mission parameters and quality standards.

Mission Alignment: All future network consultants will demonstrate commitment to cross-subsidy model, community benefit standards, and authentic partnership principles in their professional work.

Our Growth Strategy

Regional Expertise

Deep Northern Ontario Understanding

We're not southern consultants adapting urban models for northern contexts. We understand:

  • Geographic realities of vast distances and limited resources

  • Cultural diversity including Indigenous, Francophone, and newcomer communities

  • Economic constraints and creative solutions northern communities develop

  • Healthcare system challenges specific to rural and remote settings

  • Community resilience and strength-based approaches that work

Long-Term Commitment

Our sustainable business model is designed to enable consistent regional presence rather than dependence on short-term grant funding. We're committed to building lasting partnerships and cumulative expertise that will grow stronger over time.

Our Expanded Definition of Health

Health and wellbeing are created in communities, schools, camps, workplaces, and social services—not just healthcare settings. Addressing systemic barriers, cultural safety, and equity in ANY setting is health work that prevents downstream healthcare encounters and builds upstream community resilience.

This means we work with:

  • Traditional healthcare organizations (hospitals, clinics, health systems)

  • Social determinant sectors (schools, housing organizations, workplaces)

  • Community organizations building health equity capacity

  • Academic institutions advancing community-engaged research

  • Government agencies developing equity-centered policies

Ready to Partner with Us?

Whether you're a healthcare organization seeking professional equity transformation, a community organization needing accessible expertise, or an academic institution wanting authentic community partnership, we're here to work with you.

Our approach is straightforward: professional excellence, authentic partnership, transparent accountability, and sustainable impact. No corporate speak, no performative consulting – just results that matter for northern communities.