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An agency built around people, not platforms

El Collabo offers managed solutions and project support for Educators, Enablers & Entrepreneurs. We help small businesses and non-profit associations use AI to increase their impact — without losing the human touch.

Established
2017
Based in
Ontario, Canada
A collaborative skills workshop

We started because too many organisations were buying tools and calling it transformation. Real enablement is a system: clear skills, usable content, adoption that is measured, and people who feel more capable at the end of it. That is what we build, and we stay until it sticks.

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Humans first

Technology follows the people it serves, never the other way around.

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Proof over promises

Every engagement ends with numbers you can bring to a board.

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Built to be handed over

We leave you with a system your team owns and can keep improving.

The team

Senior expertise, shaped to the work

A lead consultant stays close to every engagement, bringing in trusted specialist collaborators when the work calls for additional capability.

Portrait of Colin Ramdeen

Colin Ramdeen

Founder & lead consultant

A note from Colin

Why we keep the team small

Learning and enablement consultant with more than 20 years of experience, and a part-time professor of Technology Business at Centennial College.

I work directly with the people I help. Every engagement starts in the same place: what needs to change, who it affects, and how you will know when it has worked. From there we build the smallest system that can carry the change — clear skills, usable content, a routine people can follow, and a measure that keeps it honest.

Most of my work is with small teams that do not have a strategy department, a training budget, or time to run a programme. They need something practical that still holds up on a busy Tuesday morning. That is the standard I design to, and it is why I stay close to the work until the system is running without me.

  • 20+ years across learning, enablement and workplace change
  • Part-time professor of Technology Business, Centennial College
  • Founded El Collabo Group in 2017
  • Leads The Skillsforce specialist network
  • Based in Ontario, working with distributed teams across Canada

“Technology follows the people it serves. When a team feels more capable at the end of a project, that is the result — everything else is support.”

Colin Ramdeen
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El Collabo gave us a system our volunteers actually use. Adoption doubled and our onboarding finally stopped being a scramble.

Mara Okonkwo

Director, Harbor Food Collective

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Future-of-work skills matrix

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AI-enabled skills workshops

Start a conversation

Bring us the challenge. We’ll help you find the right first move.

Tell us what needs to change and what success should look like. A member of our team will review it personally.

  • Human reply within one business day
  • Based in Ontario, working with distributed teams
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Work with us as a Collaborator

We keep the core team deliberately small and bring in trusted specialists when a brief needs more depth. If that is how you like to work, we would be glad to hear from you.

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Project-based, not staffing

You join specific engagements where your capability is the reason the work lands.

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Real clients, real scope

Small businesses, educators and non-profit associations who need practical systems, not slideware.

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A network that remembers

Specialists who deliver well are brought back and recommended to others in the network.

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Tell us how you work

A short note is enough to start. If there is a fit, we will suggest a conversation.

We review new collaborators on an ongoing basis.