
The art of building bridges
About us
Founded in 1987, Transfer Environment and Society (TES) offers a unique and pioneering expertise in multi-stakeholder engagement, consultations, meeting facilitation and community relations. Aimed towards responsible development, the processes recommended by TES allow organizations to meet the high demands of stakeholder engagement and social acceptability. With a team of over 30 full-time professionals, dozens of collaborators and offices throughout Quebec, TES is the largest firm dedicated to environmental communications, public participation, and social acceptability in Canada.
Fostering meaningful conversations between communities and proponents
Our know-how, our vision: everyone wins
Transfer Environment and Society aims to make all stakeholders winners. Over the years, TES has made its mark by rallying organizations and communities towards common objectives. Guided by our values of excellence, integrity, equity and commitment, TES’ expertise and credibility are recognized both by its clients and by the stakeholders who participate in the processes that we create and manage.

In Canada and beyond
We support clients and communities in Quebec and other parts of Canada, including Indigenous nations and communities with whom we have a long and varied history of collaboration. Our staff also has extensive international experience in the following regions: Western Africa, South America, Eastern Europe,Southeast Asia, and Australasia.
Our services are tailored to meet the specific needs of each project to ensure
their social integration:
Engagement, Consultation, and Facilitation
Develop collaborative approaches and act as a facilitating third party during meetings, committees and in resolving disputes.
Indigenous Reconciliations
Advise and accompany towards reconciliation with First People.
Social Risk Analysis
Verify and validate information and assess project social sensitivity and investment opportunities.
Environmental and Social Communication
Prepare, equip and support effective and transparent communication, particularly in the context of the public evaluation and review of projects.
Impact Measurement and Reporting
Measure and report on the performance and monitoring of commitments to communities, investors, and other stakeholders.
Cohabitation and Social Performance
Building team capacity to foster lasting trust-based relationships with communities.



Citizen Participation and Online Engagement
discussions.
- Assessing Issues and Needs in an Online Public Consultation Process
- Strategic planning of online public participation
- Choice of digital tools and platforms to achieve your objectives
- Adaptation of tools to the constraints of the public (accessibility)
- Coaching and support for the management of public participation tools
- Coordination and animation of virtual meetings and conferences
- Organization of online open houses
- Setting up a website to centralize communications and keep the public informed
- Monitoring and analysis of concerns on social media, blogs and online media

Animation and Mediation
community and stakeholders.
- Facilitation of information and consultation sessions
- Environmental and social facilitation and mediation
- Creation, animation and coordination of liaison committees, monitoring
committees, citizen committees - Creation, animation and coordination of working groups on specialized
issues - Co-development and co-design workshops, working tables, etc.


Strategic Studies, Analysis And Monitoring
integration well. This helps to better understand the community’s
expectations of the proposed project.
- Social profile and social strategy
- Social feasibility studies
- Social opportunity and risk assessment
- 2.0 media monitoring (traditional press and social media)


Training
TES’s trainers help you develop your teams in different areas, such as:
- Social acceptability
- Public participation
- Impact assessment and public review
- Indigenous Relations
- Crisis management
- Communication and media relations

Mapping
Computer-assisted mapping can be used to illustrate:
- Buffer zones around an industrial or mining site
- The host environment of a project and its different uses
- The distribution of the various elements of the project itself
- The traditional Aboriginal territories in which the project is located
- The different phases of a development
- The results of a participatory mapping workshop with the communit
We support organizations and communities within the context of major projects or ongoing community relations in several sectors and industries:
- Mining
- Industrial activities such as smelting and metal processing
- Transportation and urban planning
- Sustainable development
- Energy
- Waste management
Contact us
Feel free to contact us for any inquiries:
Cedric Bourgeois
Co-founder and partner at TES
Co-founder and partner at TES, Cédric specializes in the prevention, management and defusing of social conflicts with regards to major project development. As a senior strategic advisor in over a hundred mandates, Cédric is a key actor in all the files he is entrusted with.
He is responsible for the deployment of TES’ mission, which is to put communities and stakeholders at the heart of project development and to engage them in a process that promotes the fostering and preservation of a mutually enriching and beneficial dialogue.
cbourgeois@transfertconsult.ca
819 345-6592
About Cedric Bourgeois
Guy De Granpré
Senior Director of the Mining Sector
gdegrandpre@transfertconsult.ca
873 662-2498
About Guy De Granpré
Anik Pouliot
Project Director and Montreal Office Manager
apouliot@transfertconsult.ca
514 743-9369
About Anik Pouliot
Isaac Gauthier
Project Director
context of resource extraction and development. Isaac holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from McGill University and a Master’s degree in Environment from the Université de Sherbrooke. Perfectly bilingual, Isaac shares his time working on Quebec and Ontario projects.
igauthier@transfertconsult.ca
514 686-0521
About Isaac Gauthier
Dominic Vézina
Project Director
dvezina@transfertconsult.ca
514 348-8827
About Dominic Vézina
development of a project, taking into account:
projects
principles of free, prior and informed consent
regional development