Dallas is an Associate Director at LIFT, and is part of the social impact team that supports the planning, capacity building, and scaling of social purpose organizations in LIFT’s portfolio to affect meaningful and measurable impact.

Dallas brings over 10 years of working within non-profits, startups, B Corporations, and foundations. She has enabled clients to leverage appreciatively and curiously their capacity, nuances, and complexities to champion their social impact. Dallas does this through her expertise and experiences in project management, active listening, strategic planning, service design, business modelling, stakeholder engagement, change management, and fundraising. Notable past clients include Vancouver Foundation, Evergreen, WJS Canada, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Dallas is an accredited and accomplished business designer. She holds with distinction a Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from OCAD University (the comparable in the US being the Stanford MediaX Lab). Her thesis explored improving succession and continuity planning processes for Canadian small businesses. Dallas also holds a Bachelor of Art, International Development, from University of Guelph, a Post-Graduate Certificate, International Project Management, from Humber College and an Interdisciplinary Studies on Global Health and Disability Certificate, from Queen’s University (Canada). She is a recipient of the IDEO and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Reimagine Charitable Giving Challenge and was recognized by the Association of Professional Futurists for exploring the future of work in Canada.

Dallas lives on the unceded territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Neutrals peoples. She specifically dwells near Willow River, a part of the Haldimand Tract. In her spare time, Dallas is passionate about yoga, her dog (Chandler), and (increasingly) interior design.