About Beverley

Beverley graduated from high school with a powerful vision to make a difference in the world. Her journey took her from abridged university studies to MDS Inc. where she was instrumental in developing innovative solutions to improve and streamline work processes to being an award winning social entrepreneur developing innovative technology and advancing human systems.

Beverley is also the Author of Living Grief: The Profound Journey of Ongoing Loss, a book written to advocate community care providers and clinicians to better support family caregivers based on her fifteen year journey with her daughter, Sophia, who was born with a life limiting, life threatening condition.
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Consultant
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Beverley Pomeroy works with organizations in all sectors to help them advance their own model of corporate social responsibility and profit by community engagement. She is Vancouver’s go-to person for organizations looking for help in community engagement, organizational renewal, digital strategy and social consciousness. A fearless technology innovator, Beverley gives language to new ways of thinking about business that are leading the world into the 21st century.

​Beverley Pomeroy is recognized by clients as an honest, compassionate professional who combines passion, purpose, integrity, innovation and generosity with a remarkable capacity to help them develop and grow their organization. She regularly consults in:

  • Community Engagement
  • Business Development
  • Organizational Renewal
  • Living with a Life Limiting Illness
  • Living Grief
  • Digital Strategies and Platform Development
  • Social Media Integration
  • Social Enterprise and Innovation
  • E-Commerce
  • Member Acquisition and Retention
  • Digital Content Production
  • Nonprofit Strategic Development
  • Nonprofit Collaboration
  • Philanthropic Innovation
  • Women in Business

Current Principal Investigator Projects:

  • ​PEP (Patient Experience Prototype) Collecting and Using Patient Experience Data in Practice - A comprehensive, systematic, and sustainable approach to integrating patient and caregiver voices into how we reform, design and deliver care. A collaboration of a Pan-national research team with Dr Kerry Kuluski

  • Preferred Components for Co-design in Research (PRECISE) guideline - improve the consistency, transparency, and quality of reporting on studies that use co-design to develop complex health interventions. A pan-national research team with Dr. Sarah Munce

  • Beyond Binary in BC: taking patient-oriented and trauma-informed approach to building partnerships and dialogue to incorporate gender equity into women’s health research. Submitted a successful grant application receiving a C2 grant from MSFHR in partnership with Women’s’ Health Research Institute (WHRI)

  • Intersection of Trauma and Grief – Trauma & Resiliency Informed Care Practices to Support Caregivers of Children with Severe Illness. First recipient of a publicly initiated research project through SPOR Evidence Alliance in partnership with Sick Kids Toronto, Canuck Place Children’s Hospice

Speaker

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Beverley Pomeroy is one of those inspirational speakers who has you at “hello”. Her honest, heartwarming story of mom to business creator easily breaks down the walls of any audience, but it’s her expertise in community engagement, patient oriented research, business development, IT, social media, social ventures, backyard philanthropy and living grief that has listeners walking away armed with actionable solutions to move their organizations to the next level. Audiences appreciate her ability to take even the most complex topics and whittle them down into language they can understand, while entertaining them along the way with her wit and wisdom.

Beverley Pomeroy has spoken at the UN Informal Regional Network, Social Media for Social Change, SXSW, the Social Venture Institute at Hollyhock and Global Citizen Week – Hope for the Nations. She has spoken many times on behalf of Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and BC Children’s Hospital and is a frequent speaker for Simon Fraser University’s Young Women in Business program.

Beverley Pomeroy is a sought after speaker for organizations, both non-profit and for profit, looking to incorporate social innovation and technology into their operations and is fearless in her advocacy for people with disabilities. Her most requested topics include:
  • Living Grief: The Profound Journey of Ongoing Loss (A Front Line Perspective)
  • Inter-Dependence of Community Engagement
  • Patient Oriented Research
  • Patient Led Research
  • Redesigning Human Systems
  • Social Media for the Not for Profit Audience
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Women in Business and Philanthropy
  • Women in IT
  • Parenting / Living with a Child with a Life Limiting Illness
  • Autism / Aspergers
  • Social Change
  • Social Impact
  • Living with Disabilities