Growing Dignity-Driven Leadership.

Forge builds tools, practices, and leadership learning for relational practitioners, leaders, and innovators.

Our Ethos

At Forge, we help people navigate complex relational & social landscapes at work, and in community. Through our practice-based tools and dignity-centred learning, we cultivate the wisdom, imagination, and courageous action, needed to lead with dignity - and sustain hope for a more connected future.

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For Individuals & Communities

Learn & grow

Discover tools and programs designed to help you deepen self-awareness, strengthen relationships, and cultivate a dignity-driven approach to life.

For Leaders & Practitioners

Motivate & Inspire

Enhance your leadership practice with immersive learning experiences that empower you to foster trust, navigate complexity, and inspire meaningful change.

For Workplaces & Organizations

Shape & collaborate

Transform workplace culture with tools & strategies that focus on dignity, connection, and impact—helping teams work better together and lead with integrity.

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Tools and programs for dignity-driven work that fosters purpose, belonging, and respect.

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Managing Conflict Toolset

Conflict is part of being human. What matters is how we handle it.

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Managing Depression Toolset

Change comes from small steps and daily practices.

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Managing Anxiety Toolset

Change comes from small steps and daily practices

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Men & Collection

Free tools for men and the people who support them

Resources that foster connection, encourage growth, and navigate complex environments.

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All Tools and Certifications

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Leading Innovation for Systems Change

This 21-hour certificate program helps social-impact leaders drive meaningful change through innovation. Designed for professionals in public, nonprofit, and social enterprise sectors, it equips participants to navigate complexity and lead with purpose.

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Leading Innovation for Systems Change

This 21-hour certificate program helps social-impact leaders drive meaningful change through innovation. Designed for professionals in public, nonprofit, and social enterprise sectors, it equips participants to navigate complexity and lead with purpose.

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Our approach

At Forge, we help people lead with integrity and cultivate real trust — the kind that builds safer, stronger and more resilient communities.

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Blog

Misleading language hides violence. Clear language reveals it - insights from our friend Allan Wade.

An approach that fundamentally shifts the focus from purely transactional goals to humanizing workplaces and communities.

In a world that often feels increasingly disconnected, the power of human relationships is more important than ever

At its core, dignity is defined as our inherent value and worth

Misleading language hides violence. Clear language reveals it - insights from our friend Allan Wade.

An approach that fundamentally shifts the focus from purely transactional goals to humanizing workplaces and communities.

In a world that often feels increasingly disconnected, the power of human relationships is more important than ever

At its core, dignity is defined as our inherent value and worth

November 28, 2025

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Jeff St. John

Proudly B Corp Certified

Featured resource

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Dignity-Driven Leadership: Principles for Stronger Practice

How Context, Constraints, and Relational Practice Shape Human Behaviour and System Change

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Jeff St. John

Founder + Practice Lead

Proudly B Corp Certified

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Kind Words

The community has spoken.

Jeff’s approach strikes a good balance between slowing down the organization so that it can become truly reflective and gathering up the threads in a way that gives it direction for going forward.

John Burton

LL.B., M.B.A., M.DIV., PH.D., Assistant Professor Business Ethics

@

UBC

Jeff was able to take all our random thoughts, crazy ideas and desired goals and put together something that made sense and gave direction and structure to the work that we wanted to move into. Jeff encouraged us to think outside the systems and structures that we know and recognize and to challenge ourselves to move into the unknown in order to reach the results we were seeking.

Carrie McManus

Director of Innovation & Programs

@

Sagesse

Jeff has been invaluable to our teams as a very skilled and thoughtful facilitator. He was able to engage and lead our team members through a re-design process that resulted in new, creative, and innovative approaches to the issue.

Gillian Weaver-Dunlop

Chief Impact Officer

@

Fear Is Not Love

Jeff has great insight and expertise and is a stellar facilitator able to engage and guide our leadership team through some difficult thought provoking issues and processes with ease.

Ann O'Donnell

Retired Director of Resource Development & Communications

@

Fear Is Not Love

Jeff is my ‘go to’ guy for strategy, insight and feedback on what it takes to nurture health and vitality into organization(s) looking to be renewed. Jeff is a refreshingly focussed listener, able then to connect his client(s) needs with a wealth of relevant knowledge, insight and experience – all of which can be attested to first hand.

Chris Lock

Former President

@

The Mentor Group

Jeff is a thought leader in the area of social change and innovation. I admire Jeff’s ability to process quickly and make sense out of complex situations to find ways to deal with some of our most perplexing social problems.

Janay Ferguson

Owner

@

Litehouse Consulting Inc.

I got more practical skills here than I did in my masters of leadership degree.

Tara Ferris

Shelter Manager

@

Fear Is Not Love

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Together, we can create a world where dignity and shared humanity shape the way we live and lead.

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