Welcome to Oosterbaan Strategy

Oosterbaan Strategy is on a mission to give clients the innovative and evidence-based solutions they need for their strategic endeavours. Specialized in strategy related to economic and community development, we provide thorough consultation, facilitation, planning, evaluation and education services to municipalities, not-for-profits, post-secondary, community organizations and businesses.

What we do

In-Depth Consultation

Understand client needs with custom research tools. We will develop, conduct and analyze the best research tools to meet your community needs, from surveys to interviews to facilitated discussions to participatory mapping exercises. 

Strategic Solutions

Build a plan, ignite big ideas, maximize opportunities and mitigate challenges. Let us help you chart the best path for your community. Our plans are built on in-depth consultation and best practices research to make sure our solutions meet your needs. 

Education

Gain a great understanding of concepts related to economic and community development.  With years of experience developing and delivering course and workshop content, we can customize programming to meet your needs. 

Project facilitation

Do you have great project ideas but don’t know, or don’t have the capacity to get started?  We can help you get your big idea off the ground by engaging partners, facilitating meetings, and providing project management services.

Evaluation

How do you know that the money and time you are spending are achieving the results you want.  We will work with you to benchmark and track measures to help you ensure you are achieving maximum impact.

Talk to us about your needs

We have a broad range of skills and expertise among our team and associates.  Let’s discuss your project idea and budget to customize a solution to meet your needs.

The best solutions don’t fit in a box. 

About Oosterbaan Strategy

After over a decade working with and within government, we strive to provide clients with clear directions that set them apart from the crowd. We conduct thorough research into the needs and opportunities in your community to give you a comprehensive understanding of how to unlock your potential and provide the most effective and efficient path to successful outcomes.

Small and nimble by intention, we put together a specialized team of highly qualified associates to meet the specific needs of your project. Our associates have advanced degrees, multiple certifications and many years of experience in their areas of expertise, be it community consultation, strategic planning, education or evaluation. 

Catherine Oosterbaan

President and Principal Consultant

Catherine is a planning expert, bringing over a decade of experience working across provincial and municipal governments in senior economic development roles.

She has been responsible for building impactful and innovative projects, programming, and strategy. She holds two graduate degrees related to economic development, is recognized as a Certified Economic Developer in Canada and internationally, and remains active in publishing cutting edge academic research. During her 7 years as an Agriculture and Rural Economic Development Advisor with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Catherine played a key role in guiding community, economic, and tourism development across Ontario through educational workshops, grant application coaching, partnership development, and strategy and action plan development.

Catherine is an expert in utilizing a range of in-depth community consultation techniques to generate solutions that work. She has developed and customized research tools such as surveys, interview guides, focus groups, and other community consultation tools for a range of municipal, not-for-profit and academic clients. Utilizing these tools, in conjunction with her broad data collection and analysis background, Catherine has led the development of a number of strategies across client groups.

Her great dedication to the clients she serves, innovative approaches and community development excellence led to her being recognized as the Young Economic Development Influencer of the Year by the Economic Developers Council of Ontario in 2018.

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