About
Team
Alex Grzybowski
Alex has spent the last three decades facilitating agreements between Federal, Provincial, Indigenous and local governments, natural resource sector corporations and Non-Government Organizations. All of these agreements are based on various combinations of these parties finding mutually acceptable ways to resolve their differences, build new relationships and implement joint initiatives.
He has worked in every part of British Columbia and many parts of Canada with every resource sector. He has also worked all over the world mediating agreements between multiple countries for the UN and other international agencies as well as assisting very remote and disenfranchised indigenous communities in South America and Southeast Asia to improve their relationships with dominant societies.
Daniel Johnston
As a lawyer and conflict prevention/resolution specialist, Dan deals with a wide range of Indigenous, commercial, environmental, labour and public policy issues in Canada and the United States. In addition to Canada, he has spent time in Australia, South Africa and Thailand providing training courses on conflict resolution, negotiation and multi-stakeholder engagement. Referred to by the National Post in 2006 as one of Canada’s Top 20 natural resource lawyers, Dan has well over 2000 days of direct hands-on experience mediating and/or facilitating both multi-stakeholder processes involving large numbers of participants representing a variety of interests, as well as more conventional bilateral disputes.
Chanda Hunnie
Chanda brings over a decade of project leadership experience in natural resource management involving multidisciplinary collaboration.
As Coordinator, then Director of Operations for the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Chanda guided the organization's activities in province-wide boreal forest conservation campaigns emphasizing stakeholder consensus. Her work was instrumental in the successful creation of Fisher Bay and Little Limestone Lake Provincial Parks. She has also been responsible for managing consensus-based projects related to climate change, energy infrastructure development, forestry and Indigenous reconciliation.
Values
Transformation – We facilitate opportunities for people to make the changes they seek happen. Meaningful, real, lasting change.
Relationships – We take the time to develop meaningful and enduring relationships with each other and with our clients.
Respect – We respect our clients and co-workers.
Leadership – We rally others to achieve a common cause in a way that inspires trust and confidence.
Self-Improvement – We continually strive to learn and grow, both professionally and personally.
Reconciliation – We are driven by the knowledge that there are always solutions to conflicts if there is a will.
Rigor – We hold ourselves to the highest professional standards to maximize the benefits to our clients.
Genuine Open-Mindedness – We avoid attachment to our own ideas, as they are often barriers to progress if they do not resonate with the Parties.
Fun – Resolving conflicts is stressful work. Good humor and light-heartedness is essential for success.
Name
Pacific: adj. of a peaceful nature.
n. of, in, or near the Pacific Ocean.
The sea is a metaphor for life - turbulent, dangerous, and chaotic - yet also peaceful, delicate, beautiful, and full of life. Pacific Resolutions’ headquarters looks out onto the Pacific Ocean, reminding us of the tempests confronting people around the globe and of our responsibility to help our clients navigate the waters around them.