Meet Next Gen Grit
Discover how to leverage tension to transform your business.
We help people meet complexity with a way through it all. We can learn how to hold tension to find insight and action forward. Let us guide you.
Backed by experience
Michelle brings more than three decades of experience supporting people through leadership change, organizational complexity, and transformation. Her work blends practical decision support with a systems-informed understanding of how people, relationships, and structures shape what becomes possible.
She is interested what becomes possible when people tell their truth, listen well, and make decisions they can stand behind. She believes clarity is relational, participation matters under pressure, and better futures are built through the quality of the conversations we are willing to have.
Driven by client need
New capacity to treat tension as an opportunity for you and your business.
Creating shared momentum in a shorten session for large groups.
Sharpening decision-making skills for leaders of transformation.
OurMission
At Next Gen Grit, we don't believe transformation happens by avoiding friction—it happens by moving straight into it. We guide you through the deep waters, illuminate the underlying humanness, and equip you with capacity to move through tension with unmatched agility AND stability.
Our Team
Get to know us
Michelle Clarke is the founder of Next Gen Grit. She holds a Master’s in Leadership from Royal Roads University and works with founders, leadership teams, and groups across sectors in both for-profit and not-for-profit environments.
Jake Thiessen works with us to strengthen pattern recognition and collective sensemaking to deepen how certain conversations are held. His presence strengthens the clarity, reflection, and coherence that the work invites.
Michelle Clarke
647-654-3739
michelle@nextgengrit.com
Jake Thiessen
519-998-1280
jake@nextgengrit.com