Who you’ll meet when we come together

Our work always begins with a conversation. You reach out, we listen, and together we start to see what might be possible. So, it feels right to introduce ourselves the same way, by sharing a little about who we are and how we show up with one another and with you.

If you knew us as 4C Impact, welcome back. We’ve evolved. Read the full blog here: 4C Impact has evolved into the Centre for Systems Collaboration.

Who we are

We are a dedicated team of strategists, practitioners, breakthrough facilitators, researchers and designers. Together, we form a collective of like-minded individuals with diverse experience and expertise in system leadership and integrated care, strategy and operations, partnership and co-design, public health and community engagement, human-centred design and foresight, and systems change research. Together we bring decades of combined experience across local, provincial, national and international settings, and our ambition is to grow the collaborative capacity that health and social care will need for the future.

What brings us together is a shared purpose: building the capability for collaborative leadership and creating the enabling conditions for change, and for belonging, in the places where people live, work and interact with health and social care systems.

Each of us brings a diverse portfolio of work from our past and current roles across health and social care. Those experiences let us weave knowledge together and share it in both directions. What we learn with you travels with us, and what we learn elsewhere comes back to you.

Coming to the work as our whole selves

Each of us comes to this work as our whole self. Among us are parents, musicians, food lovers, yoga instructors, mentors and lifelong learners, amongst many other things that make us whole. We each seek out the people and activities in our lives that bring us joy and meaning, and they shape how we listen and how we lead. We honour the experience, expertise and ways of working that each person brings, and we make room for everyone to show up fully.

The roles we hold describe what each of us is carrying right now. They shift as the work grows and as we learn from each other.

Teaming

For us, team is an expansive word. It is whoever comes together, under whatever conditions, to work on something that matters to them. Some days that is a curated mix among our core team. More often it includes leaders, boards, clinicians, caregivers, community partners and people with lived and living experience, each bringing a view the others need. Teaming is how we work, within and across organizations, sectors and industries. It is a commitment we make to each other and to everyone we work alongside.

How we work alongside you

We work closely with you, as embedded collaborators, to disrupt the status quo and reimagine ways of working. Along the way, we build collaborative leadership capability so that change can last. We hold the quality of the process equal to the outcomes, because the way we work together sets the foundation for everything that follows. We create trusted and brave spaces where people can speak honestly, including about the things that have gone unsaid. We understand that the counterforce to the status quo is the collective, and we take that seriously in how we work with each other and with you. We learn, unlearn and grow together, and that is how we have impact together.

We have sat alongside boards and senior leadership teams and witnessed what becomes possible when leaders create the space to step back, challenge assumptions, see things differently and arrive at a shared understanding that did not exist when they entered the room.

We have convened and curated spaces that bring together leaders from all 58 Ontario Health Teams, Primary Care Networks and people with lived and living experience to explore their collective potential. Not simply to share what each is doing, but to make sense of what becomes possible when we see ourselves as part of a larger community, with a shared responsibility for improving health and well-being locally, regionally and provincially.

We have worked with health economists and policy makers to broaden the conversation about the value of integrated care and population health approaches, shifting the focus beyond individual services and organizations to the health, well-being and prosperity of populations.

And we have brought organizations and community partners together to move beyond alignment in principle to collective action in practice, recognizing that the greatest opportunities for impact often sit in the spaces between organizations, sectors and traditional boundaries.

Across all of this work, one thing has become increasingly clear: transformation is not something any one organization or leader can deliver alone. It emerges when we create the conditions for people to think differently, build relationships, challenge the status quo and take shared responsibility for a future they cannot achieve independently.

Over time, the Centre holds a durable web of relationships across people, organizations and sectors. That continuity carries learning from one effort into the next, so the people we work with can build on what has already been tried. You can read more about the ecosystem we work in and our impact on our website.

We are grateful to everyone who has brought an ambition, a question or a hard conversation to us. As with so much of our work, this introduction is really the start of a conversation. If you are thinking about how to work differently with others, we would be glad to talk. You can reach us at connection@centreforsystemscollaboration.com.

Read more about the experience and expertise of the team below.

With gratitude,

The Team at the Centre for Systems Collaboration

Jodeme Goldhar, MSW, MHSc

Founder and CEO

Jodeme has more than thirty years of experience working alongside leaders to advance health system transformation, integrated care, population health and large-scale change. She is the founder of The Centre for Systems Collaboration, Vice-Chair of the global Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Integrated Care, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of IFIC Canada and the North American Centre for Integrated Care (NACIC) at the University of Toronto. She is Strategic Advisor to McMaster University’s Health Leadership Academy and Co-Director of its signature programs: the National Health Fellows Program, Collaborative Health Governance Program, and Canadian Health Transformation Lab. She serves as Knowledge Mobilization Lead for the CIHR-funded Network for Integrated Care Excellence, with appointments at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and McMaster University. Jodeme is a Fellow of Dr. Helen Bevan.

Jodeme’s work has included launching some of Ontario’s earliest integrated-care initiatives and designing leadership experiences that bring together leaders across sectors, disciplines, and countries. Her practice focuses on the capabilities leaders need to create impact in complexity: strong individual leadership, the ability to lead within and across organizations and sectors, partnership with patients, caregivers and communities, and collaborative leadership and governance for outcomes no one organization can achieve alone.

Jodeme’s contributions to integrated care and transformative solutions have earned her numerous accolades, including the Top 10 Women Changing Health Care in Canada (Patient Commando), the National Catalyst for Change Award, Women of Inspiration, two National High Impact Practice Awards from the Canadian Home Care Association, and two Ontario Minister of Health Medals. More recently, she was recognized by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as one of Canada’s “best brains” for building leadership capabilities.

Meghan Perrin, MHSc

Strategic Enablement and Operations

Meghan brings clarity to complexity, building the strategies, structures and capabilities that move integrated care and collaborative systems work from plans to practice.

She partners with leaders, teams and networks to advance large-scale systems change. She enables the strategies, structures, and capabilities that move integrated care and collaborative systems work from plans to practice at local, provincial and national levels, working alongside partners to navigate complex change, strengthen governance, and build the capacity organizations need to move together. Her approach is rooted in emergence, collaboration, mindfulness and systems change.

Meghan is a bilingual facilitator and strategist with over 15 years of experience across health and social care, spanning comprehensive primary health care, public health, and French language services, from health promotion to health policy. She works from an anti-oppressive, equity-driven lens. As part of her portfolio of work, Meghan is also the founder of IMPACT MP, supporting francophone engagement and French-language services and strategy.

She holds an MHSc in Health Administration from the University of Toronto and a BHSc in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences (Baccalauréat spécialisé en Sciences de la santé) from the University of Ottawa, alongside extensive continuing education in integrated care, health equity, leadership, management consulting, facilitation, and governance.

Samantha Laxton, MSc

Partnerships and Insights

Samantha works at the intersection of systems design, partnership, and change management to advance more connected, equitable, and people-centred health systems. Grounded in co-design, she brings together lived and professional experience to align diverse perspectives and enable collective action, translating evidence into frameworks, pathways, and improvement efforts that strengthen integration, quality, and access.

As part of her portfolio of work, Samantha is also the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Streamliners, where she leads the growth of HealthPathways across Canada, building cross-sector relationships that embed connected, evidence-based care pathways into the broader health and social care ecosystem.

With a Master’s in Health Systems from the Telfer School of Management (University of Ottawa) and nearly a decade of experience with the Health Standards Organization, Samantha brings strengths in strategic alignment, facilitation, and implementation, connecting vision to execution in complex environments.

Yinka Macaulay, MPH

Innovation and Equity

Yinka brings the art of deep listening and the skill to translate complex ideas into accessible, actionable strategies. Rooted in public health and a social-determinants-of-health lens, she designs inclusive, meaningful engagement that helps communities, organizations and systems co-design change at individual, community, and population levels.

Yinka has held previous roles with SE Health and the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Canada; in Strategy and Innovation at The Change Foundation, and in Health System Integration, Design and Development and Primary Care at the Toronto Central LHIN. She holds a Master of Public Health with specialization in sociobehavioural health from the University of Waterloo, a Bachelor in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario, and post-graduate certificates in Regulatory Affairs and Community Engagement, Leadership and Development.

Sean Park, PhD

Human-Centred Design and Futures

Sean Park is on a mission to help people and organizations become more fully human and adaptive to change. As a health design and foresight educator, scholar, and facilitator, he is drawn to the ways we bring forth vitality, awaken imagination, and make differences that make a difference. His work overlaps with who he is as a father, son, partner, improviser, musician, citizen, mentor, friend, and living creature sharing this planet with other beings.

Sean’s background reflects a playful and rigorous traversing of disciplinary boundaries. He believes the creative spark needed for inner and outer change lives in the gaps between the reified lines we inscribe on reality. His PhD in Arts Education explored “inner work” as a means of cultivating humanity and creativity in educators and leaders, while his Master’s in Education attended to embodying teaching and learning through the metaphors of ecology and living systems. He brings a mix of training in coaching, facilitative leadership, mindfulness education, design thinking, and systems thinking, and was an alum-in-residence of the Stanford d.school Teaching and Learning Studio. In recent years, his curiosities have extended to cybernetics, global wisdom traditions, ritual design, design fiction, and visual collaboration technologies.

Sean is Assistant Professor (Part-Time) in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Education and Innovation, Faculty of Health Sciences, at McMaster University, where he has taught human-centred design and strategic foresight with the iBioMed and DeGroote MBA programs. He was academic co-director for an advanced health leadership program with the Health Leadership Academy and has provided in-house organizational development consulting.

Justin Levinsky

Research and Content

Justin is committed to advancing healthcare by bridging research and clinical practice. With his strong background in physiology and healthcare innovation, he has contributed to projects that improve patient outcomes by connecting evidence with practice. He has held research roles at University Health Network, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Sunnybrook, focusing on autoimmune neurology, pediatric otolaryngology, and oncology. Beyond research, Justin leads community health initiatives, with a focus on education.

With The Centre for Systems Collaboration, Justin supports research and writing, helping translate the team’s work into blog posts and other content that share what we’re learning as we go.

Justin is currently studying at the University of Limerick School of Medicine in Ireland, holds a Master of Health Science in Medical Physiology from the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and has presented his work at national and international conferences.