About us
We partner with significant Enterprising Families to manage the human and social dimensions of their family capital for generations
Our story
We listened to many significant Enterprising Families about their needs and concerns. Through conversations and research, we concluded that a majority of Enterprising Families agree with this statement: ...developing the family leadership talent pool for the next generations is a high priority. Paradoxically, we estimate that 92% of those same families will materially impair their family wealth and wellness within 3 generations. Less than 1% will make it beyond 200 years.
Why is Enterprising Family wealth & wellness at risk?
Put simply, a great amount of time and energy is spent on the management of financial and physical assets, while proportionally speaking, not enough attention and resources are allocated to the Enterprising Family’s human and social aspects of their wealth.
We created CRYSALIA to set Enterprising Families on a deliberate learning and developmental journey. CRYSALIA is a service devoted solely to the significant Enterprising Family’s complex human and social capital needs. CRYSALIA can help prepare all family members to live purposefully and contribute to the many impactful conversations and endeavors within an Enterprising Family ecosystem.
Our Vision & Mission
Our vision is to help Enterprising Families and its members honour their roots, be adaptive, and live purposefully for generations.
We support Enterprising Families succeed multi-generationally by creating and delivering deliberate learning journeys for their family members. Our learning journeys provide diverse experiences for Enterprising Families to adapt and align their leadership skills with their family's strategy and the attainment of their individual, family, corporate, and community goals.
Our team
Crysalia was born from a deliberate intention and a passion to transform Enterprising Families so they can continue to flourish for generations. Our company is organized to operate as one. A multidisciplinary Impact Team focused on the human and social capital of our clients. We combine the insights of strategic management, governance, business acumen, brand leadership and organizational psychology to make sure that the business of family does not undermine the family business.
Patricia Saputo
Executive Chairperson of the Board
& Strategic Advisor
FCPA, FCA, ICD.D, TEP, DTax, Certified Wealth Transition Coach and Financial Coach, Patricia is a well-established leader in the Enterprising Family community. After working in Deloitte’s tax department, she brought her experience to the Single Family Office space and expanded her role in the areas of accounting, tax, life insurance, investments, as well as Estate, Succession and Legacy planning. Part of an Enterprising Family herself, she brings tremendous insights into the Crysalia’s offering.
Jean Phaneuf
Strategic Advisor
& Organizational Psychologist
Founding President of Analys, Jean has supported thousands of leaders throughout North America and Europe since 1989. Known for his capacity to help leaders go through major challenges, he builds rich partnerships resulting in greater efficiency and fundamental positive changes. Jean’s research and thought leadership represent a fundamental part of Crysalia’s contents and tools to guide our client experience and enrich their learning and developmental journey.
Caroline Phaneuf
Chief Learning Development Officer
& Leadership Coach
With 15 years of experience working in corporate strategy, innovation, business development and client services teams of large corporations, Caroline is a skilled coach and facilitator. She helps leaders and teams get clarity on both their goals and how to achieve them. She helps her clients see their challenges through new perspectives and rearranging information in unexpected ways to deliver the desired impact.
Julie Gauvin
Chief Learning and Development Officer
& CMO
Julie has 24 years of experience as an executive, strategist, mentor and consultant with companies of all sizes, across a variety of industries. She directed several business transformations and helped individuals, teams and brands solidify their positioning, manage their brand image, transform their mindset and accelerate their growth.
Sasha Elbaz
Junior Learning and Development Advisor
Sasha is a doctoral student in Psychology (Ph.D./Psy.D.) at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His doctoral research focuses on how social support can affect one’s work and non-work life domains. His passion and ambition for helping others grow and develop represent Crysalia’s key intent. On his way to becoming an Organizational Psychologist, Sasha aims to further Crysalia’s mission of helping families learn and develop in order to reach their full potential.
Valerie Sanchez
Chief Learning Development Officer
Valerie is a certified executive coach, team facilitator and trainer with nearly 25 years of international leadership experience in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Passionate about the development of human capital in business and in families, she enables her clients to shape their future to the extent of their ambitions and full capacities.
Ana Gavrancic
Chief Learning Development Officer
Doctor in organizational psychology, Ana has more than 13 years’ of experience in consulting and human capital management within small, medium, and large companies. She uses her skills as a strategist, project manager, facilitator, and coach to lead her clients to ask the right questions, find original answers and obtain the desired results with maximum impact.
Louise Desaulniers
Coordinator
Client service-focused, Louise has over 20 years of experience in project coordination and customer service. Louise is familiar with the application of Crysalia’s leadership tools, content and the various assessment tools, which makes her very efficient and effective in her role as coordinator.
Jamil Mokadi
Data Analyst
Multi-disciplinary data analyst, Jamil is a graduate of Concordia University. He is passionate about anything related to data. Jamil's strong analytical skills, combined with his ability to communicate complex data insights in a clear and concise manner allow him to make the data speak its own story.