At Cense, we we work with networked organizations seeking to create greater health impact in the individuals and communities they serve and through higher-performing, creative teams. We do this by designing, evaluating, and shaping strategy for living systems; the kind of complex, dynamic, multi-layered, interdisciplinary contexts that networked organizations live in.
At Cense, we help you thrive in those systems. Cense is a Principal-led strategic design and innovation partner for leaders and their teams seeking to develop and deliver excellence and impact in their organizations, networks, and systems.
We specialize in supporting networked organizations dealing with systemcomplexity.
Our strategic design approach connects strategy, evaluation, service design and leadership support for those seeking to leadgenerate health in living systems.
Strategic Plans & Evaluation
We craft plans that connect your vision, mission, and resources together with the strategy, tactics and developmental evaluations to transform uncertainty to insights that help you act wisely in complex systems
Services & Systems Design
We bring together people, ideas, and processes to help you envision and create the services and systems that generate positive health outcomes for your teams, clients, and partners
Leadership & Learning Support
Our advisory and coaching services draw on more than 25 years’ experience working in networked health systems. We provide training, facilitation and support to leadership teams operating in complex contexts
I’m Cameron Norman, President & Principal of Cense. I’ve spent over two decades working at the intersection of health, design, and systems — as a consultant-practitioner, educator, and researcher.
I trained as an organizational and communitypsychologistin public health, and have studied and taught systems and design thinking. I’ve spent my career as an educator, evaluator and strategist, working at the intersection of health & social impact.
As Principal, I lead our work that helps networked organizations connect, collaborate, and create in ways that achieve health and wellbeing.
I’m also the Chief Coffee Officer, too. Let’s grab one sometime.
Health systems are living systems. They evolve, change, and are made up of many different relationship networks that influence what gets done, how, and when. Designing for a static, standard model doesn’t yield strategic plans, evaluations, and services that suit the uncertainty, change, and complexity of your situation.
Strategic design creates an organization that can actand adapt and enkindles the kind of creativity and learning that supports innovation and sustainability in living systems.
Our logo tells a story about our work.
We put people at the centre of what we do, connecting them to their roots to ground their actions in their values, mission, aspirations, and talents so that they can flourish, grow, and thrive.
We design for living systems – interconnected networks working together to help people flourish.
Explore our servicesto learn how we can support your work, and subscribe to our learning resources to stay inspired. Visit our blog and Censemaking for insights on strategic design for innovation and impact.
Our office is located on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation – Treaty 13 (Toronto/Tkaranto). We actively pay our respect to this land’s stewards and Elders, past and present, and to the future generations who continue to care for it. At Cense, we are humbly committed to supporting Truth and Reconciliation through our actions, and ongoing efforts to learn, grow, advocate, and listen.
