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SOAR is an innovative company that brings both industry experience and a unique perspective to planning, engineering, environmental science and management consulting.
We're setting the benchmark for how to collaboratively work with Indigenous clients as they see the progress they respectfully deserve.
To be the preferred employer for Indigenous Peoples seeking rewarding careers that positively impact communities; To disrupt the status quo by developing resilient solutions built on a foundation of shared learning that captures community perspective; To develop through shared learning, building capacity for both our clients and our own organization to better address future challenges and opportunities.
Each of the letters of S O A R represent our commitment to the work we complete with our Indigenous clients and partners.
We build success on a foundation of trusted relationships, shared learning, and capacity development both with our clients and within our own organization.
We actively attract, hire, train, and develop Indigenous staff across Canada and engage Indigenous partners in project opportunities, allowing us to better understand and support our clients in the achievement of their goals.
We acknowledge the legacy our historic governments have created with Indigenous Peoples and seek to promote a truly innovative approach towards reconciliation.
We respect the role Indigenous Peoples play in our business and apply innovation through shared learning and Two-Eyed Seeing in our project assignments.
The SOAR logo was designed to be a compelling visual representation of the concepts that are foundational to SOAR, as well as to convey what makes SOAR unique in our industry.
There are two components or halves of the pinions on a pinwheel.
The first half of the pinion represents Our People. The second represents Your Vision. Each of the seven pinions that make up the pinwheel generate forward progress and represent a desire to shape the future with a deep understanding, appreciation and respect for the past.
With this, the SOAR logo came to life.
We will be the preferred employer for Indigenous Peoples seeking rewarding careers that positively impact communities.
We will disrupt the status quo by developing resilient solutions built on a foundation of shared learning that captures community perspectives.
We will develop through shared learning while building capacity both for our clients and our own organization to better address future challenges and opportunities.
Two-Eyed Seeing is a concept developed by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall in 2004 which seeks to reconcile the use of Western method and theory with Indigenous knowledge. In the words of Marshall, Two-Eyed Seeing is “learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of mainstream knowledge and Western ways of knowing, and learning to use both of these eyes together in order to produce more fulsome and sustainable solutions for the benefit of all.”
We listen first; and cultivate knowledge to create resilient solutions for generations to come.
To establish an Indigenous led, staffed and owned organization made up of professionals leading and implementing change in their communities.