Building collective legacies, collectively.
Worth passing down because they grow, because they work, because they keep innovating.
The Collective Legacy is a facilitation and collective design practice based in Montréal and Ottawa. We help teams, boards, networks, coalitions, and community groups hold the conversations that matter and build collectives that can keep having them.
Feminist governance, decolonial practice, and anti-racism are the foundational logic of everything we do. They shape who is in the room, how power moves through it, and what the group builds together. We work across the nonprofit, public, grassroots, and international cooperation sectors, in English and in French.
A note from Leila
A collective is only as strong as the conversations it can hold.
Equity is one of the oldest technologies we have. Decision-making that stabilizes even when leadership changes. Gatherings where everyone gets to speak and be heard. Ways of repairing harm without losing people. Knowledge handed down so the next generation can carry it further. Feminist, Black, Indigenous, queer, and Global majority communities have been building these ways of living and working together for generations, and they have survived and evolved through everything set against them. That knowledge is practical, and it is what I bring into every room I hold.
I started The Collective Legacy because I kept ending up in rooms where organizations described futures they were not building. The people were good and the commitments were real, and underneath them sat the same silences, the same decision chains, and the same people carrying the cost. What was missing was a room where people could tell each other the truth, and a collective strong enough to keep deciding together afterwards.
Over the years I have had the privilege of wearing many hats, as a strategist, facilitator, and organizational designer. Through all of them, the focus of my craft has been the room. The space where people decide how they will be together, and the living ways of working that grow out of it. Governance people actually use. Conflict that keeps. a team whole. Collectives that innovate naturally, because they keep listening to each other. I bring a global perspective, an intersectional lens, and a practice rigorously rooted in care.
I love gathering people. I stay with a group long enough to see how things really work, and we build together, one conversation, one agreement, one gathering at a time. I believe the best facilitation leaves. When a group holds its next hard conversation on its own, with agreements it made and understands intimately, I know we did it right
This work asks a lot of people, so I try to make it something you want to walk into: honest, rigorous, full of care, and with room for joy. I’m honoured to do it alongside people who want futures where we all get to see each other whole. Let’s get to work.
In solidarity, with care,
Leila Moumouni-Tchouassi
Our Why
Work keeps speeding up, and the human parts are the first to be squeezed out: the time to listen, the trust that lets people disagree, the rituals that hold a group together. We exist to keep the human in our organizations, collectives, networks, and teams, so they can grow without losing their people.
Our How
We design and hold spaces for hard conversations, then help the group turn what it learned into agreements and ways of working it owns. Every engagement is built around the people, grounded in what has worked for communities for generations, and accountable to everyone the work touches.
GROUND, DESIGN, ACTIVATE, EVOLVE
Our Values
Radical Imagination
We prototype futures worth inheriting.
Collective Courage
We invite discomfort as a catalyst for breakthrough.
Rigorous Care
We treat care as a technology and match bold ideas with meticulous execution.
Accountable Joy
We celebrate progress while measuring impact.
What we hold to
THE PRINCIPLES UNDER EVERY PROPOSAL, SESSION, AND CONTRACT WE WRITE
Feminist governance, decolonial practice, and anti-racism are the conditions for a collective that lasts. They make power visible, which is exactly why they meet resistance.
Equity is the foundation
Who is invited, who speaks first, how decisions get made, and what happens to what was said afterwards. We design all of it on purpose.
The room shapes the conversation
What you choose to evaluate is what you make happen. The story belongs to the people it describes, so they help decide the questions.
Evaluation is authorship
Conflict capacity and trauma-informed practice live in how a group works together: how it names harm, how it repairs, and how it shares news of change.
Repair is load-bearing
We say the funding paradox and the structural tensions out loud, and our facilitation models the governance it teaches.
We name the contradiction
The clearest sign of success is a group that holds its next hard conversation without us in the room and feels confident to do so.
Independence is the measure
Based in Montréal and Ottawa. Working in English and French, across Canada.
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Using equity as a catalyst for connection, innovation, and collective futures.
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