Ian & Amie Lewis bring together years of experience working with individuals and organizations to understand and support the needs of each unique team. Ian brings the academic and clinic based experiences to help you uncover the workplace wellbeing needs of your organization. Amie brings years in organizational leadership and communications to help translate the learnings into practical and actionable steps.
We’ve been married almost 30 years and have 3 young adult children. We both grew up on farms in southern Saskatchewan and understand the value of caring our community both personally and professionally.
Together we bring knowledge from academics and learned experience as well as a strong desire to make a difference through this work.
The work we do is based on experience in the field with mainstream, evidence-informed tools, partnered with listening and understanding the needs of your organization.
Ian’s Experience:
- More than 20 years assisting people to return to work and in prevention of work-related injuries.
- 15 years experience assisting employers and insurers to help people return to work following mental health problems.
- 15 years facilitating workshops and problem solving sessions.
- Subject matter expert serving on the CSA z1003 Technical committee for The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health & Safety in the Workplace.
Knowledge:
- Research Masters degree in Workplace Health & Wellbeing.
- Advanced Certificate in Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.
- Familiar with labour & safety legislation and human rights requirements as it relates to mental health through observation and claims management experience.
Character:
- Upfront and clear communicator: there is nothing hidden and as a Registered Occupational Therapist in Saskatchewan, Canada I have a professional duty to informed consent and fiduciary responsibility for my clients.
- As far as work styles go on the DiSC I’m your “C” as a subject matter expert, systems thinker, and ensure everyone’s voice is heard as we build consensus.
- I love to create education & tools that make best practices usable for front line users.
- I practice what I preach: balance is really important to me. When I am not working I’m volunteering on a couple of non-profit boards, experimenting with recipes in the kitchen, in the gym, or on the water paddleboarding.
If you are interested in talking more please reach out and we’d be please to talk with you more about what you might need and if we can help or perhaps refer you to others who can.
You can also find more information about Ian and follow him on on LinkedIn or read an overview of his research.
