Human-centred leadership for a world under pressure
Guiding organizations
through complexity with clarity
How Larimar Strategies sees the world
Our calling...
..is to help people stay human under pressure, make meaning together, and move forward with steadiness and integrity when the path feels unclear.
What if...
...we could create a future where organizations remember, learn, and evolve through change.
A future where we carrying insight forward rather than repeating old patterns, building resilience that endures beyond any one single moment.
The heart of Larimar Strategies
When the human layer of work is tended to, everything else works better
Larimar was created for people who want to lead through change without losing themselves. Jennifer and Natalia understand how emotional load, behaviour, and meaning shape today’s workplaces. Their work helps people see clearly, feel supported, and choose next steps with wisdom.
They are not here to rush answers. They are here to create steadiness.
The Larimar Strategies journey
Our approach
Who we uplift
Our expertise
Some days, work feels heavier than it should.
The pace is relentless. The emotional weight is constant.
You are expected to stay clear and composed while holding complexity, people, and consequence all at once.
Larimar exists for these moments.
Our expertise
Who we uplift
Our expertise
With over 25 years of experience in providing business and management consulting services to Canadian companies of all sizes.
We offer a rare blend of soul and system, feeling and structure, compassion and clarity.
Our presence helps leaders breathe, understand, and move forward with renewed perspective.
Who we uplift
Who we uplift
Who we uplift
We work with people who carry responsibility and care deeply about how they lead.
They are navigating burnout, emotional overload, shifting expectations, culture strain, and uncertainty about what comes next.
In a fast-moving world, the ability to pause, reflect, and make meaning together becomes a leadership advantage.
Where what comes next takes shape
Natalia Popowych
The Larimar Strategies Team
The Larimar Strategies Team
Natalia brings clear and logical thinking, pattern recognition, and deep insight into how people adapt under strain through behavioural insight, structural clarity, and disciplined alignment.
Her work makes complexity workable.
The Larimar Strategies Team
The Larimar Strategies Team
The Larimar Strategies Team
Natalia and Jennifer offer a dual lens rarely found in leadership development or organizational work.
Jennifer Gaul
The Larimar Strategies Team
Jennifer Gaul
Jennifer brings emotional clarity and steadiness, grounded wisdom, and language that helps people make meaning of what they are living through.
Her work allows people to imagine what could come next.
Larimar Strategies' doorways
People don't arrive looking for a service, they arrive carrying pressure
Leadership Reset Staying Steady Under Pressure
There are moments when everything feels consequential. Decisions carry weight. Tension is high. You are expected to stay calm while others look to you for direction. Inside, you may feel stretched, tired, or uncertain, even as you continue to perform.
A Leadership Reset creates space to slow the pace enough to think clearly again. We help stabilize emotional load, sort signal from noise, and reconnect with your own grounded judgment so you can move forward without urgency driving the decision.
Sensemaking & Wayfinding Sessions
Sometimes something difficult happens and everyone moves on too quickly. Conversations replay in your mind. Tension lingers. A quiet sense remains that the story is not finished.
Sensemaking and Wayfinding Sessions create a well held space to reflect on what unfolded and what it stirred. Together, we surface patterns, misunderstandings, and insights that were waiting to be seen. Meaning is made before the next step is taken.
Human-Centred Leadership Capacity Support
Some leaders know they do not want to wait until things break to seek support. They want steady, preventative capacity rather than episodic intervention.
This ongoing, light touch partnership offers a place to put what is heavy before it becomes overwhelming. Leaders are supported in navigating emotional load, relational strain, and difficult people moments as they arise, rather than after damage is done.
Meeting this moment with steadiness
Leadership is changing. Emotional capacity, relational maturity, and presence are no longer optional. They are essential.
The weight of now
• burnout and capacity erosion are widespread.
• technology is advancing faster than human systems can absorb.
• mental health strain is collective, not individual.
• people need to be led as humans, not managed as tasks.
• psychological maturity is becoming a requirement.
• purpose is moving from rhetoric and theory into daily operations.
What this moment calls for
• emotional capacity under pressure
• grounded presence in difficult moments
• relational skill in complex conversations
• clarity of direction and meaning
• conversations that restore calm and coherence
• emotional and behavioural insight
• clarity around purpose and direction
• support through strain, conflict, and change
• collective trust, integrity and care
How Larimar holds the shift
• leadership, executive and team resets
• high pressure decision support through change and complexity
• conflict and communication stabilization
• emotional capacity strengthening
• short term leadership coaching
• incident and issue debriefs after difficult events
• navigating relational strain or conflict
• making sense of change, loss, or transition
• fractional leadership presence and advisory support
• burnout and capacity monitoring
• relational and workflow guidance
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