Creating Workplaces Where People and Performance Thrive
We help organizations strengthen leadership, workplace culture, and team performance. We partner with leaders to create respectful and high-performing workplaces where people can do their best work. Our work focuses on systems, behaviours and leadership practices that shape employee experience every day.
This includes helping leaders:
- Strengthen team effectiveness
- Navigate conflict and employee relations challenges
- Develop respectful workplace practices
- Improve communication and collaboration
- Support employee engagement and retention
- Reduce people-related risk
With more than 15 years of experience across corporate, public, academic, and nonprofit sectors, our approach is practical, evidence-based, and focused on measurable results.
We help organizations become and stay employers of choice by strengthening leadership, culture, and workplace performance.
Education and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree: Law
- Master’s Degree: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Professional Designations:
- CCIP – Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional
- PROSCI – Change Management Practitioner
- CPHR – Certified HR Professional
- Certified Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator
- Osgoode Hall Law School, York University – Advanced Certificate in Workplace Investigations
Elise Ahenkorah
SENIOR HR & EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE ADVISOR AND Speaker
Elise Ahenkorah is a Senior HR Advisor, Workplace Culture Strategist, and Keynote Speaker who helps organizations navigate complex people, culture, and workforce challenges.
She is the Founder and Lead Strategist of Inclusion Factor, a workplace culture and HR advisory firm supporting organizations with leadership development, employee relations, respectful workplace practices, workforce planning, psychological safety, and team effectiveness.
With over 15 years of experience across corporate, public, academic, and nonprofit sectors in Canada and internationally, Elise has advised more than 200 organizations, including IBM, Google, World Bank, Bayer, London School of Economics, and McGill University. Her work spans more than 13 industries and includes advising complex, unionized, and global workforces of up to 150,000 employees.
Elise’s work focuses on how leadership, decision-making, employee relations, and day-to-day management practices shape trust, performance, and workplace culture. She supports leaders in strengthening fair processes, reducing people-related risk, and building healthier, more effective teams.
She is the creator of the Accountable Spaces Framework, now used globally across higher education, the private sector, and public institutions to strengthen accountability, trust, and team effectiveness.
Recently, Elise was named one of the Women’s Executive Network Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada. She is known for her practical, results-focused approach to helping leaders make better people decisions, strengthen respectful workplaces, and sustain performance in complex environments.
Education and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree: International Relations and Law
- Master’s Degree: MBA in Strategic Planning
- Professional Designations:
- CCIP – Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional
- PROSCI – Change Management Practitioner
- CPHR – Certified HR Professional
- Certified Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator
The IF Team
Our Global Network
The Inclusion Factor team includes experienced lawyers, consultants, facilitators, and strategists with expertise in HR, employee relations, labour law, and organizational change. We work closely with clients to deliver practical solutions to complex workplace challenges.
Through a global network of fractional subject matter experts across Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., we tailor each engagement to the organization’s industry, workforce, and context. This approach ensures focused expertise, measurable impact, and results leaders can rely on.
Why Work With Us
Pillars of Success
We help leaders build fair, psychologically safe, and effective teams that perform well and hold together under pressure.
Our Impact
For more than 15 years, we’ve helped over 200 organizations across Canada, the U.S., and Europe strengthen leadership and teamwork, delivering measurable improvements in engagement, retention, and performance. Our work has been recognized with 15 global awards.
Our Approach
Our approach is practical and grounded in evidence-based approaches. Through our Culture IQ platform, we assess how teams are working, benchmark results across sectors, and track progress over time. This allows us to focus leaders on the changes that will most directly improve engagement, retention, and performance.
Our Team
Our award-winning, interdisciplinary team brings deep expertise across HR, labour law, organizational change, people management, and employee well-being.
Practical Solutions.
Measurable Results.
Stronger Teams.
With over 15 years of experience, Inclusion Factor helps organizations strengthen leadership, workplace culture, and team performance. Our work focuses on building respectful, psychologically safe, and effective ways of working so people can contribute fully and teams can perform consistently.
15+
Years of Experience
across HR advisory, employee relations, change management, employee well-being, and leadership development.
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