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Precious Ile

MA, PMP, CEC, CP3

Co-Founder and Principal

Expertise: Community (Stakeholder / Public) Engagement, Leadership Communication, Executive Coaching, Authentic Connection, and Organizational Effectiveness Expert ​

You might be surprised when Precious bursts into a song or poem. Her energy lights up a room and kicks off a client meeting, stakeholder engagement session, or leadership and team retreat with warmth, creativity, and inspiration! ​

Precious is an award-winning consultant, a visionary leader, TEDx speaker-storyteller, keynote speaker, dialogue facilitator, spoken poet, public speaking coach, and Certified Executive Coach (CEC). ​She is also a Certified Public Participation Professional (CP3), Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified MBTI Practitioner who coaches purpose- or impact-driven leaders and teams to work better together. ​She also coaches leaders and teams to communicate effectively with confidence, authenticity, and impact.

Her expertise over the past decade spans community/stakeholder/public engagement, dialogue facilitation, organizational development, human-centered design innovation, strategy co-creation, and board governance.​

She has served clients across the energy, finance, health, higher education, nonprofit, public, and tech sectors. She is currently an Adjunct Faculty with the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC). She trains leaders on leadership and collaborative conflict resolution to become more effective at leading and communicating through conflict and change. 

​She holds a Master’s in Community Development (MACD) from the University of Victoria (UVic) and a Bachelor’s in Criminology from Simon Fraser University (SFU). She holds the Certified Executive Coach (CEC) designation from Royal Roads University, an Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) through the International Coach Federation (ICF). ​Through a rigorous application and assessment process, Precious earned the Certified Public Participation Professional (CP3) designation, the internationally recognized professional gold standard for public engagement awarded by IAP2 Canada.

Precious believes in giving back to the community. She is a seasoned Board Director and has served on multiple Canadian nonprofit boards and associations including the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, CityHive Vancouver, SFU Alumni Association, and the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Canada. ​

Among many professional achievements, Precious was nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction Award in British Columbia. Her work has earned her national recognition with two IAP2 Canada Core Values Awards for creativity and innovation in public/stakeholder engagements in 2020 and 2022. She has also been recognized by SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Center for Dialogue as a thought leader in dialogue and public engagement in the region.