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The RETHINK GROUP shares a thirty year tradition of consulting excellence in the fields of planning, management, research and human resource development.

Founded in 1979, the RETHINK GROUP works with organizations, municipalities, business and the non-profit sector to help plan and prepare for the future.

The Firm specializes in:

Assistance can take the form of:

  • consulting and 'hands-on' coaching,
  • studies and plans,
  • customized training, and
  • workshops.

We join your team at those critical moments when it's imperative that you look at new directions, review options and develop new strategies for action.

Our extensive experience will help you to refocus, identify key challenges and opportunities, determine the optimal strategic response and move pro-actively forward.

Our knowledge, specialized experience, data bases and facilitation skills will augment your ability to be insightful, objective and decisive when leadership is essential.

RETHINK is a network of committed professionals - co-ordinated from our offices in Peterborough, Ontario and Ladysmith, British Columbia. Robert Lockhart and Donna Lockhart operate the Ontario office, while Ken Balmer and Brenda Clarke head up the western operation from British Columbia.

We've made a commitment to nurturing visionary and strategic leadership. We work with those who face the challenges head on and who understand that change is the essential survival tool of the decade.

Helping you embrace change, nurture strategic leadership, and incubate innovation; shaping your future with confidence!

Youth Volunteer Audit

Youth Volunteer Audit

Sessions and Information

  • PAVR-O - Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources: Donna has taken a part-time contract for 2 days per week to support PAVR-O in a senior leadership position. She commenced in October of 08 and is working with the Board of Directors to build membership; increase exposure to Standards of Practice; improve member services; raise the profile of the profession and to diversify the funding base.
  • November, 2009 - December, 2010: Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville Leisure Services Department. Donna is assisting recreation/leisure services staff in the development of a Volunteer Engagement Strategy – as part of a three-part strategy also involving a leisure programming strategy and a culture strategy.

Current RETHINK GROUP Planning Projects

  • Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville - three integrated strategies (Programming, Culture and Volunteer Engagement)
  • Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury - Long-range Strategies for Selected Outdoor Recreation Facilities
  • Township of Oro-Medonte - Parks and Open Space System Analysis and Policy Development

Latest News & Announcements

New!Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury - Strategies for Selected Recreation Facilities
August 17, 2010

The RETHINK GROUP was awarded this project in late May, 2010. It will result in twenty-year strategies for the provision of public ball diamonds, playing fields and tennis courts in the Municipality. Associated with the strategy will be an age-specific, five-year interval population projection to the year 2031.