Senior Associate

Tazeem (Taz) Weljie helps organizations think bigger, plan smarter, and move forward with purpose — bringing together strategy, people, and process to create lasting change.

Taz partners with organizations across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors on strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and organizational development. Having worked across six countries, she brings a global lens to local challenges. She gravitates toward work at the intersection of big-picture thinking and on-the-ground reality, drawing on her backgrounds in human resources, communications, process improvement, and leadership coaching. Collaborative by nature, she leads with curiosity and a belief in honest, generative conversations.

She has led high-engagement transformation processes for organizations including YMCA Calgary, ATB Financial, Kuru Kuru Training School, Women Building Futures, the SHARP Foundation, EducationMatters, and The Alex — always through a lens of access and equity. Her work spans strategic direction-setting, organizational design, change management, leadership coaching, and succession planning, helping clients align their people and business strategies for the long term.

Deeply committed to community, Taz co-chairs the Health and Wellness committee at Calgary Foundation and sits on its Grants and Strategic Opportunity Grants committees. She has held board roles with Global Fest Calgary, The GRAND Theatre, Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, and the McBurney YMCA in New York City. She holds a Master's in International Public Relations from Cardiff University, a Bachelor's of Kinesiology from Acadia University, a Certificate in Health Service Transformation from Teesside University, and is an ICF Certified Coach.

Taz is a podcaster, has run four half-marathons, and summited Mount Kilimanjaro. She loves to spin, is a part-time yogi, foodie, globetrotter, and proud aunty who believes in the power of breaking bread together.