Disrupt YVR 12.0 · Visionary Sponsor and Project Manager

The napkin handles the spills.
We handle the projects, and support your board.

Koja Consulting is delighted to be the project manager behind Disrupt YVR 12.0. We help nonprofits, community-serving organizations and businesses plan, and execute their projects, support their boards and keep spills small.

Mel Ifada

Mel Ifada (she/they)

Founder and CEO

MBA | PMP | GPC.D

Suyu He

Suyu He (they/them)

Projects and Operations Manager | BA

The people behind the napkin

Koja Consulting is a Vancouver-based project management and governance consultancy. Founder and CEO, Mel Ifada, brings 25+ years of leading projects, operations and governance, and has served as President of the PMI Canadian West Coast Chapter. Mel, Suyu, and specialist Koja team members work with values-driven organizations that want to move from big-picture goals to completed projects and efficient boards.

Fun fact: “Koja” is an anagram of the middle-name initials of Mel and family.

Minor spills can happen. We plan for it.

The trick is identifying, mitigating and catching it while it’s still napkin-sized. Our 5-Minute Spill Check is a one-page tool you can run at your next team or board meeting to spot small issues early.

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Plan for it: clear scope, roles and decision paths before the work begins.

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Spot it early: simple check-ins that surface small issues while they are still small.

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Keep going: steady project and board support so one spill does not become a flood.

Want to mitigate the spill?

Koja can help: project and board management, without the full-time hire

We work with nonprofits, community-serving organizations and businesses.

Some projects are too important to neglect and may not require creating a new staff role, or overextending existing limited staff capacity. That is where we come in.

Project management

We scope, plan, schedule, and monitor the budget to see your project through, working alongside your team so the knowledge stays with you when we step back.

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Board support and governance

We can help with board administration, recruitment support, governance reviews, policy work, strategic planning sessions … and much more!

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Project discovery

Not sure what the project is yet? We help you define the scope, timeline, budget and interest groups before you commit.

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“Our team had capacity and skill-set issues to lead strategic projects internally. Koja filled this gap for us and brought even more to the table than we expected. It has been hugely advantageous to have input and insight from someone who has a fresh perspective and can offer different solutions to how we’ve always done things.”

– Carol Madsen, Executive Director (2015-2022), Parent Support Services Society of BC

“Let’s talk about it.”

Grab 20 minutes with Mel. Bring a project that’s on your mind, a board question you’re chewing on, or simply find out more about what Koja can do for you.

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Disrupt YVR 12.0 · Co-organized by Citizencentric and Koja Consulting Inc.