What MixtMode Consulting does

MixtMode Consulting is a Canadian career development consulting firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in Port Moody, British Columbia. The company operates at the intersection of career practice, service design, and workforce policy, providing consulting, training, and learning resources to three primary audiences: individual career practitioners, organizations (including employment service providers and post-secondary institutions), and government agencies at the federal, provincial, and international levels. Its core service offering combines bespoke consulting engagements — including change management initiatives, training program design, and multi-modal service frameworks — with a subscription-based online learning platform called MixtMode Learning, hosted on Thinkific, that delivers professional development courses to individual practitioners. MixtMode pioneered Canada's first fully online career decision-making program in 2018 and has since developed an extensive proprietary content library, including 35+ targeted online workshops and 20+ face-to-face workshops built for the Employment Program of British Columbia.

The firm's revenue model blends professional services consulting for institutional clients, recurring course revenue through the MixtMode Learning platform, and government or industry-funded research collaborations. Notable engagements span Canadian federal and provincial governments (WorkBC, Government of Nova Scotia, Veterans Affairs Canada), post-secondary institutions (Douglas College, Nova Scotia Community College with 13 campuses), and nonprofit employment service providers (YWCA Metro Vancouver, Agilec). International projects include a customized transition framework delivered to the Netherlands' CINOP and collaborations on the inaugural International E-Career Symposium in Australia. MixtMode is founder-led by CEO Tannis Goddard and operates with a small core team of 1-10 employees, supplemented by research collaborators including Dr. Norman Amundson of the University of British Columbia. The firm maintains strategic partnerships with the Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF), CERIC, and Future Skills Centre, and has built its market position primarily on talent expertise, proprietary methodology, and embedded relationships within the Canadian and international career development ecosystem rather than on technology differentiation or scale.

Name

MixtMode Consulting

Legal name

MixtMode Consulting

Website

https://mixtmode.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

MixtMode Consulting is a Canadian career development firm that designs consulting engagements, training programs, and online courses for career practitioners, organizations, and government agencies. It blends bespoke professional services with the MixtMode Learning platform and multi-modal service frameworks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Career Development Consulting and Training

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Organization Design & Change Management Consulting (BPAHACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Learning, Training & Corporate Education Consulting (BPAHAGAE), Operations & Process Improvement Consulting (BPAHACAB)

Keywords

• Career development consulting
• Career practitioner training
• Employment services consulting
• Career planning programs
• Workforce development advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Port Moody

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Custom consulting solutions for organizations and governments including training development, change management initiatives, and specialized frameworks for career service delivery.
2. Online Courses and Training: Professional development courses for career practitioners delivered through the MixtMode Learning platform, including both free resources and paid course offerings.
3. Research and Development Projects: Collaborative research projects funded by government and industry organizations such as CERIC, focusing on career development methodologies and interventions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

MixtMode Consulting provides custom consulting solutions, training programs, and change management services to career practitioners, organizations, and governments in the employment services sector. It also operates the MixtMode Learning online course platform that delivers professional development courses and resources for individual career practitioners. The firm specializes in designing and implementing multi-modal career service models that blend online and face-to-face delivery.

Product overview

MixtMode Consulting is a career development consulting firm offering a portfolio of training programs, research initiatives, and online learning platforms. The core offering consists of MixtMode Consulting Services providing consulting for practitioners, organizations, and governments, supported by MixtMode Learning as the online course delivery platform. Their portfolio includes flagship programs like the Online Career Planning Program (Canada's first fully online career decision-making program), research initiatives such as Hope-Centred Career Interventions and Career Motion Research Project, and government partnerships including the Career Development Professional Centre. They specialize in multimodal career service design, practitioner training, and change management support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MixtMode Learning Platform
• MixtMode Consulting Services
• Online Career Planning Program
• Modern Practices for WorkBC Practitioners
• Hope-Centred Career Interventions
• Career Development Professional Centre
• Change Management Training
• Synchronous Chat Training
• Mature Worker Employment Program
• CINOP Framework – Netherlands
• Online Career Targeting for New Immigrants

Quantifiable outcome

• 87%+ program completion rate and 92% client satisfaction for online career planning program
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, supporting and historical.

• Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-created Career Development Professional Centre providing foundational training and resources for career development practitioners to strengthen the career development system in Canada.
• CERICcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on Hope-Centred Career Interventions research project; CERIC funded the research examining hope as a main component in career services with interventions developed by MixtMode.
• Future Skills CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partner collaborating on workforce-oriented services and skills development initiatives.
• BlueprintsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization contributing to collaborative projects and initiatives in career development.
• Training InnovationshistoricalOthersCareer services agency in British Columbia where MixtMode originated. For 25 years, the core team ran provincial and federal government-funded career services. MixtMode was created by this group in 2012.
• Social Research and Demonstration CorporationsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerLed the Career Motion research project; MixtMode created web-based tools for the project aimed at helping post-secondary graduates improve labour market competencies.
• University of British ColumbiasupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Norman Amundson collaborated with MixtMode on Hope-Centred Career Interventions research project.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• DDI (Development Dimensions International): Global leadership and talent development consulting firm. Comparable because it sells training and consulting solutions for workforce capability building, similar to MixtMode's practitioner training programs.
• Right Management (ManpowerGroup): Global career transition and talent development consulting firm within ManpowerGroup. Comparable because it provides career services consulting and outplacement for organizations and governments, though at much larger scale.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with talent management and workforce advisory practices. Comparable at a broader scale because it serves government and large employers with similar workforce/career consulting services.
• Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH): Global career transition, leadership development, and workforce consulting firm. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering career services consulting and training solutions to enterprise and public-sector clients.

Direct peers

• Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF): National Canadian organization advancing the career development sector through research, training, and policy. Directly comparable because it operates in the same Canadian career development ecosystem and collaborates on practitioner training.
• CERIC (Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling): Funds and disseminates career counselling research and training in Canada. Comparable because it co-develops and funds the type of practitioner training and career intervention research MixtMode delivers.

Emerging players

• CareerArc: Career transition and outplacement platform serving employers. Comparable as an emerging player delivering technology-enabled career services to organizations, though with a more product-led approach.
• Springboard: Online career-focused education platform. Comparable as an emerging player offering structured career learning programs, though aimed at individual career switchers rather than practitioners.
• General Assembly: Career-focused training and reskilling provider. Comparable as an emerging player in the career skills training space, though focused on tech and digital skills rather than career practitioner training.

Others

• Goodwill Industries Career Services: Nonprofit operator of employment and career services programs. Comparable ecosystem participant because it delivers government-funded employment services training to multi-barriered populations, overlapping with MixtMode's target client base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mixtmode-consulting
• Xx.com/mixtmode

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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