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About Your Trainers

Kim Hyshka

Dialogue Partners owner Kim has been a leader in the field of civic engagement and public participation for over a decade, amassing a list of clients that spans the corporate elite and the highest levels of government.

Experienced in both large and small-scale projects, she has has facilitated conversations on topics such as land use, energy, healthcare, government strategy, large-scale budgets, and private sector mergers. She is passionate about building communities’ capacity to participate in meaningful dialogue and finding opportunities for organizations and stakeholders to work together in mutually beneficial decision-making processes. She draws on her education in political science, collaborative conflict resolution and continuous learning as a licensed IAP2 Foundations trainer.

In everything she does, Kim embodies gratitude and excitement. Her aptitude for organization, combined with background in performing arts, enables her to intuitively incorporate structure, process, and flow into the messiness of human differences. From here, she ignites and fosters the beginning of new and beautiful futures.

Tannis Topolnisky

Tannis is passionate about creating meaningful experiences when the need arises to bring people together. Whether it be for the first time, for one time or over time. She believes gatherings should leave us all in a better place than where we started.

Tannis has almost twenty years of public engagement experience and 15 years training other engagement practitioners. She has worked in a diversity of areas such as heritage conservation, policy, program and legislation development, health, contaminated sites management, environmental justice, municipal budgeting and public education.

She often finds herself involved in planning and facilitating projects where there is high concern and emotion within communities with potential impacts to quality of life and human and environmental health. She works in engagement from start to finish.

Tannis also provide capacity building, coaching and training to clients. She is a Certified Public Participation Professional (CP3), a licensed trainer for the International Association of Public Participation’s (IAP2) Foundations in Effective Public Participation training program and an IAP2 mentor for new practitioners.