Consulting Firms in Calgary: A Different Option for Business Owners
Workplaces is a business consulting firm serving Calgary owners virtually, with quarterly on-site intensives. One focus — moving top-line revenue and protecting margin. Nothing else.
Serving business owners across Alberta and Western Canada.
THE PROBLEM
Most Calgary consulting firms sell you a deck.
If you’ve shopped for consulting firms in Calgary lately, the pattern is familiar. Six weeks of interviews. Forty slides of strategy. An invoice that hurts. You read the deck once, shelve it, and carry on running the same broken process you had before they showed up.
The work that actually moves a business doesn’t sit in a deck. It sits in two people across a table — or across a video call — making decisions on what’s broken this week and what’s going to be different before the next session.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Calgary business owners running $500K to $10M in revenue.
You’ve hit the size where the business can’t run out of your head any longer. Every call lands on your desk. Margin is sliding. The growth you wanted is now the thing creating the problems.
You don’t need a ninety-page strategy document. You need a consulting firm that will work the problem with you, not write about it.
WHAT’S DIFFERENT?
One bar every session has to be cleared.
Every session runs against one question: does this move top-line revenue, protect gross or net margin, or both? If it doesn’t, we don’t do it. Not “we’ll flag it for the next workshop.” We don’t do it.
The framework is the Stages of Growth model. It matches the advice to where your business actually is — the issues of a $1M shop are not the issues of a $7M shop, and we don’t pretend they are. Candidate and leadership assessments are weighted 40% behaviours, 35% driving forces, 25% competencies. Every call has a reason.
Cadence matters, too. Most Calgary consulting firms check in monthly or quarterly. We run Business Building Sessions twice a month. That’s what keeps change stuck once we’ve decided on it.
HOW THE MODEL WORKS
Virtual sessions twice a month. On-site when it matters.
Calgary business owners work with us primarily virtually. Two one-hour-plus Business Building Sessions a month, over video. Written deliverables land in your Google Drive after every session.
Quarterly, we run an on-site intensive in Calgary — a longer in-person working session at your office or a private room downtown. Sometimes you need the consultant in the room, not on a screen. That’s what the quarterly intensive is for.
The virtual-primary model is how most of our Alberta book outside Edmonton runs. It works because the work is in the thinking, not in the commute. And it keeps the Calgary engagement priced the same as the Edmonton engagement — you pay for the consulting, not for a hotel room.
What’s actually included.
- Twice-monthly Business Building Sessions — two hours each, video-first, with written deliverables after every session.
- Quarterly on-site intensives in Calgary when the work needs it.
- The full Workplaces deliverable library — SOPs, org charts, job profiles, financial dashboards, Monday.com board setups, business plans, marketing plans, Stages of Growth assessments. Every deliverable tied back to revenue or margin.
- Direct access to your coach between sessions. Email, text, or a short call when something breaks. Not billed by the hour.
- A consulting firm that runs businesses, not one that writes about them.
About Us – Who you’re working with.
Workplaces (HR All-In Inc.) is a business coaching and consulting firm based in Edmonton, working with clients across Alberta and Western Canada. The Business Building Program runs in two tiers — the Accelerator and the Implementer — alongside the Leadership and Management Development Series and the Emerging Leaders Series.
Every engagement is judged against one standard: if the work isn’t moving top-line revenue or protecting margin, we aren’t doing the work. That’s the whole methodology.
The practice is led by Bruce Baker, who founded Workplaces (HR All-In Inc.) and has spent years coaching business owners across Alberta and Western Canada.
Frequently Asked Questions About Consulting Firms
Are you a Calgary-based consulting firm?
No. Workplaces is Edmonton-based. We serve Calgary business owners virtually, with quarterly on-site intensives in Calgary. The virtual-primary model is how most of our Alberta book outside Edmonton works, and it’s been the same model since we started taking clients outside the capital region.
What industries do you work with?
Most of them. Current and past clients span construction, trades, HR and professional services, industrial, and retail.
What's the investment?
Two tiers — the Accelerator and the Implementer. The Accelerator covers twice-monthly sessions plus the full deliverable library. The Implementer adds hands-on build work — we don’t just advise, we help execute. Pricing is covered on the discovery call, built around your stage and scope. Month-to-month, no long-term contract.
Can I see a Calgary client case study before I commit?
Say so on the discovery call. We can walk you through anonymised work from Alberta clients at your stage of growth and in your industry, and you can decide for yourself whether the methodology fits.
How do we start?
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We’ll spend the time on what’s actually broken in your business. No pitch, no hard close.
If the deck isn’t working for you anymore, book a conversation.
Thirty minutes. Bring the one or two things keeping you up at night. We’ll spend the call on those and nothing else.
