Erin Blanding

Group Collaborator: Consultant + Facilitator

Erin is a visionary leader and process oriented people focused facilitator whose work is grounded in trauma informed, anti-oppressive frameworks. With a rich background in non-profit leadership, movement organizing and activism, she brings passion for making meaningful community change into every community and client engagement she leads.

Erins’s areas of subject matter expertise include organizational development + design, strategic facilitation, equity focused human resource operations, learning and development strategies, performance management programs, conflict mediation, workplace mental-health and wellness and community organizing for social change.

Erin currently is a Vice President of people operations and strategy at a national organization in Canada that reaches thousands of non-profit and grassroots leaders making meaningful change in their direct communities. 

In recent consulting projects, Erin provided Corbin Hill Food Project the executive search and board of director governance support they needed to advance their mission for the future. She facilitated human centered design strategy work with CampFire Circle looking to rebuild their workforce culture after covid changed their staffing model. And she helped build people management skills of SeriousFun leaders trying to develop high performing teams.

Erin’s sweet spot in consulting is helping organizations manage acute human resource crisis response work including how employers can provide harm reduction and trauma support, workplace racial justice and safety with thoughtful policies and procedures that help people thrive where they work.

For 12 years, Erin’s work was focused on the creation and development of the Windsong Peace and Leadership Center, a social justice camp on the US/Mexico border using permaculture and other equity design principles to guide programming and community change. She also co-founded the Borderlands Restoration Leadership Institute, fostering ecological, cultural, and economic restoration through a bi-national community network. 

She holds a BA in International Relations and Anthropology from Mount Allison University and a Masters in Applied Community Change and Conservation from Future Generations Graduate School. 

To unwind, Erin spends time with her loving dog Tuck, organizes for racial justice, makes pickles with her mom and crushes Crossfit 6 days a week.