The Work

Real engagements.
Real outcomes.
Being built in public.

Olympia & Associates is an early-stage Edmonton practice with a deep track record. This page is an honest account of the work done — what was built, for whom, and what resulted. Where testimonials are pending confirmation, that is noted plainly.

10 Engagements
documented
3 of 4 Career Review clients hired
within 6 months
$980K Haven Icecream Year 3
documented projection
780K+ Refugees served by
technology we built
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Career Consulting — High School

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Grade 10 · Foundations + Family Navigation Student A Two careers held open. One plan built before the windows closed.

Grade 10 student with interests in AI engineering and global communications. Newcomer family with an RESP open but no SIN — meaning government grants weren't flowing. Engagement built a 127-credit graduation plan with a 27-credit buffer, locked in the French language chain before the window closed, mapped five target scholarships to immigration milestones, and identified an $82,000 cost gap between studying locally and out-of-province. Immediate action list: SIN, RESP registration, RCIC consultation.

$82K cost gap discovered and documented · studying locally vs. out-of-province alternatives

"I didn't know there was a scholarship gated behind our immigration status. I didn't know the Edmonton option could save us $80,000. What I got was a list of things to do, in order, with deadlines."

— Parent of a Grade 10 student, Edmonton
Foundations + Family Navigation
Grade 11 · Pathways + Family Navigation Student B Already doing the work. Now she knows where it's going.

Grade 11 student working as a line cook in her school's culinary programme, building a social media presence with intention, and in early development of a food brand she intends to lead. The engagement didn't hand her a direction — it named the one she was already walking. Credential sequence for culinary arts and food entrepreneurship, portfolio framing of her line cook role and East Africa hospitality experience, trades scholarship map, and a direct connection between her Grade 12 year and the business she is building.

Grade 12 entering with a plan, a portfolio, and a destination

"What she didn't have was the confidence that came from someone saying: this is professional experience. This is a credential. That shift — from 'I like cooking' to 'I am building something' — happened in one engagement."

— Parent of a Grade 11 student, Edmonton
Pathways + Family Navigation
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Leadership & Business Consulting

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Career Review track
Operations & Project Management Barbara Esther Namuli Eight years of experience. Translated for Edmonton.

Eight years of program and operations management — multi-million dollar portfolios, cross-country coordination, executive reporting. Three master resume versions (PM, Operations, EA), 10+ employer-specific applications, and a systematic campaign targeting City of Edmonton, GoA, AHS, RBC, NAIT, MacEwan, and Lunatech. The experience was always sufficient. The translation hadn't happened yet.

Started August · Hired December NAIT, Edmonton

"He helped me understand how my experience read here, what needed to change, and then built a whole campaign around it. I'm at NAIT now. That process got me here."

— Barbara Esther Namuli, NAIT Edmonton
Career Review (formerly Career Launch Bundle)
Human Resources Maureen Mutesasira Fifteen years of HR leadership. Rebuilt for the Canadian market.

Fifteen years across talent acquisition, OD, compensation design, labour relations, and HRIS in East Africa. The challenge wasn't qualifications — it was professional presence. LinkedIn rebuilt from scratch with eight headline options and three bio versions. GoA and post-secondary sector as primary targets. Employer-level contact mapping before any application went out. Post-interview follow-up templates for every panel member.

Started December · Hired May Edmonton

"I had built fifteen years of real HR experience — I just needed a way to present it so Canadian employers could immediately see my value. Brian rebuilt my professional presence from the ground up. Success doesn't happen by accident. It happens because the groundwork was laid properly."

— Maureen Mutesasira, Edmonton
Career Review (formerly Career Launch Bundle)
Social Services Fiona Kyomukama Nineteen years of service. Prepared to speak to every bit of it.

Nineteen years at Watoto Child Care Ministries — 200+ children supported, trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, team management across four countries. The interview was the gap. Full interview preparation across ten competency areas, with STAR-format responses built from her actual history. Faith-based community support roles require candidates who can speak fluently about their philosophy of care — the preparation made sure the interview reflected her depth.

Started May · Hired August Community Support Worker, Edmonton

"I did not just target the job. I volunteered with my team, in multiple sites. By the time I walked into that interview I wasn't nervous. I was ready. I had the role within weeks."

— Fiona Kyomukama, Community Support Worker, Edmonton
Career Review (formerly Career Launch Bundle)
Technology Services · Career Pivot Lynn Nansikombi Twelve years in social services. Pivoting to technology — deliberately.

Toronto-based professional targeting IT Project Management and IT Security. No LinkedIn presence worth naming, no résumé built for a technology audience, no Edmonton relocation plan. Engagement built LinkedIn from scratch, structured a master résumé spanning both her social services background and technology trajectory, mapped three target role types, three Edmonton sector networks, and flagged the Upperbound AI conference as a technology network entry point ahead of her move.

Active campaign in motion — deliberately, not desperately

"I finally feel like I'm running a real job search instead of just hoping something happens."

— Lynn Nansikombi, Toronto (relocating to Edmonton)
Career Review track · résumé and LinkedIn rebuild
Business and leadership projects
Project Engagement · Digital Presence & Positioning Janzen Family Care From solo practice to positioned service.

Candice Janzen had a family navigation service that worked and a digital presence that didn't reflect how distinctive it was. Four-phase engagement: competitive analysis across three comparators, positioning gap matrix and page blueprints, full multi-page HTML website build, and an AI Implementation Brief. Every decision was explained as it was made — the rationale, not just the output.

4 phases · competitive research through launched practice

"The site finally looks and reads like what I've actually built."

— Candice Janzen, Founder, Janzen Family Care, Edmonton
Project Engagement Testimonial pending confirmation
Project Engagement · Business Plan & Financial Model Haven Icecream From vision to fundable.

Artisanal ice cream startup targeting Southwest Edmonton's underserved communities. Engagement produced a 31-page investor-grade business plan for a CSBFP application — competitive benchmark analysis, two-location hub-and-spoke operational design, full financial model, 10-year loan amortisation schedule, and a risk register with seven assessed risks. Year 3 revenue projection: $980,000. Debt service coverage: 3.7x.

$980K Year 3 revenue — documented in the CSBFP-ready business plan · 3.7x debt service coverage

"The process forced us to think through every part of the business before we committed to anything. We went from a concept to a CSBFP application with a plan we actually understand and believe in."

— Founding team, Haven Icecream
Project Engagement Testimonial pending confirmation
Facilitation · Faith Community & Leadership Edmonton Talks — Daughters of Zion & Rhema Chapel Two organisations. Four sessions. Edmonton, March 2026.

Two faith community organisations brokered through Diamond Consulting Inc. Four facilitated sessions delivering leadership and personal development content for real audiences — navigating leadership inside families, workplaces, and community spaces simultaneously. Applied sessions grounded in eight years of facilitation practice, not theoretical frameworks.

4 paid sessions delivered · Edmonton Q1 2026
Facilitation
Strategic Discovery · Nonprofit Sector Empowering Nations A generational strategic move. Discovery-phase accompaniment.

Faith-based nonprofit with a decade of community development across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The Legacy Project: acquiring a distressed school campus in Kampala to build East Africa's most integrated vocational and spiritual formation campus. Discovery engagement produced a 9-section draft strategic proposal — three-goal framing, financial turnaround model (1,000→1,400+ students, Year 3 donor independence), 100-day operational plan, due diligence framework.

9 section strategic proposal · donor-presentation ready
Discovery phase · engagement did not proceed to contract Included for transparency — see note below

On the Empowering Nations engagement: the discovery-phase work above was produced before a formal engagement agreement was in place. The proposal was professional-grade consulting work — and no contract was signed, no payment was received. This is included here because it is part of the honest record of the practice, and because it illustrates the boundary that has since been formalised: the discovery call is free, the proposal document is free, and everything produced after that requires a signed contract and initial payment. The quality of the thinking does not change based on whether a contract exists. The process does.

Credibility anchor

Before Olympia & Associates — the Kampala Leadership Hub.

2016
New York City · Global Health Corps

Alumni Program Management

Global Health Corps Fellowship alumnus. Programme management spanning 5 countries with 300+ alumni in 35 countries globally. Leadership development programming designed and delivered across cohorts. The organisational, cross-cultural, and systems-level work from this period is the foundation of the accompaniment model at Olympia & Associates.

The discipline of building programmes that develop people across highly varied national contexts — not just transferring knowledge, but building capacity — runs through every engagement today.

5 program countries
300+ alumni in 35 countries
2018
Kampala, Uganda · Management Coaching & Facilitation

Kampala Leadership Hub

Founded in 2018 as a direct response to a pattern observed across organisations in East Africa: people being promoted into leadership roles without frameworks for the work. KLH delivered career coaching, a 10-chapter management course tested across multiple cohorts, and facilitation across community, faith, nonprofit, and small business contexts.

The coaching and facilitation practice at Olympia & Associates is built on eight years of work here. The management course curriculum — tested across real cohorts, refined across multiple delivery cycles — is in active development as a published book.

8+ years of practice
10 chapter management curriculum
~2020
Uganda & East Africa · Technology at Scale

Guild Digital Uganda

Registered nonprofit tech company. The flagship product — rCHMIS, a refugee Community Health Management Information System — served 780,000+ refugees with 83% health worker adoption. Integrated with Uganda's Ministry of Health. Rwanda MoU. $50K+ in grants secured. $30K+ in contracts delivered.

This is the proof-of-capability that underpins every technology-adjacent engagement at Olympia & Associates. The scale, the sector, and the government integration are the evidence base. Wound down — the work lives on in the record.

780K+ refugees served
83% health worker adoption