Who We Are

D-SIDES & Associates is a global consultancy that collaborates with organizations to navigate complexity, evaluate impact, and design systems that work in real-world conditions.

We work with institutions across healthcare, nonprofit, research, public, and corporate sectors to align services, strategy, and structure.

Our proprietary framework, the D-SIDES Fluidity Matrix™, enables deep understanding of how real-world experience intersects with systems, services, and outcomes. It equips organizations with the tools to design and evaluate with clarity.

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Strategic Insight, Measurable Impact,

Adaptive Solutions.

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D-SIDES helps organizations move beyond surface-level adjustments to embed strategic insight into their operations, evaluation, and innovation efforts.

We help institutions:

  • Assess where systems succeed—and where they fail

  • Design programs and products that align with actual needs

  • Measure progress through meaningful, context-aware evaluation

  • Adapt and scale efforts in response to shifting realities

Our Purpose

Our goal is simple:

to help organizations do better, for the people they serve, the products they create, and the systems they shape.

Meet the Team

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Founders

  • PhD, MBA (he/him) is an award-winning education professional who has two decades of senior leadership experience in education globally for non-profits, secondary schools and post-secondary institutions.  During his over- twenty dedicated years of post-secondary leadership, O’neil has been instrumental in guiding planning processes to support the development of innovative programs and services that promote student retention, engagement, and success, and has led interdisciplinary teams in addressing emerging priorities. He has led collaborative work on implementing access departments, international student foundation programs and strategies at the post-secondary level in Canada.

    O’neil has experience leading government working groups in addition to university and high-school boards in policies, programs and professional development towards organizational excellence.

    O’neil has had the privilege of living and working in many different countries, bringing unique insights to his work. Building on a passion for developing people’s potential through education, O’neil continues to be part of programs that bring real social change. 

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  • B.Ed., MSc (she/her) is regularly invited to collaborate, present and speak to her range of expertise, including effective partnership building; key performance measures & evaluation; and strengthening democratic participation. This range reflects her experience in strategic planning and measuring progress to success in non-profit, corporate and government sectors.

    Hema is a former city council candidate. While losing isn’t easy, she reflected on her learnings to establish a program preparing other women to run for office. The program resulted in 10 of 15 participants running, with 3 elected to office.

    She has won several evaluation and policy-making awards as a result of chairing evaluation working groups for education, housing and labour market initiatives. Hema has led the design and implementation of mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) frameworks with the end goal of building consensus on report results for system transformation improvements.

Associates

  • Seyi Osinowo is a data and digital transformation specialist with over 15 years of experience helping organizations modernize their operations through cloud, automation, and analytics. His expertise lies in harnessing data to power digital transformation initiatives that strengthen governance, streamline processes, and enable smarter decision-making.
    At Scotiabank, Seyi has supported the bank’s global digital transformation by designing and deploying Google Cloud solutions that integrate with Collibra, automating user access and embedding metadata governance across business units. At Munich Re, he contributed to the development of an enterprise data and analytics roadmap, modernizing how data was collected, governed, and used to inform strategic decisions. With Bruce Power, he advanced digital reporting for nuclear outage analytics, building automated pipelines and AI-enabled scheduling tools that enhanced efficiency and performance oversight.
    He has also managed interdisciplinary teams and facilitated cross-functional collaboration, including bridging English and Spanish business requirements for multinational stakeholders. Having lived and worked in many places of the world, Seyi brings a global perspective to complex transformation projects. He is passionate about creating systems that make data more accessible and actionable, while driving the broader digital transformation journeys that position organizations for long-term success.