Our team at the(ir)replaceables consulting, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and beyond, are currently studying challenges and changes that people have attempted across their lifespans with varying degrees of success. 

This research is designed to explore the perspectives and experiences of individuals who have participated in various forms of personal challenges with varying degrees of success, and is designed to initiate a deeper understanding of how personal choices to attempt individual change or to achieve a goal both influences and is influenced by particular barriers.

Such challenges may be formal or personal and include, but are not limited to, setting and meeting goals, changing behaviours, increasing health, improving relationships, and enjoying life. More specifically, challenges may be related to the physical self or body (i.e., health, fitness), emotional self (i.e., increased self-awareness, change in emotional regulation, empathy), mental (i.e., continuous learning, development of mental skill), belief based (i.e., identification or change of beliefs, expanding perspectives), recreational (i.e., social engagements, windsurfing, painting, race) and more. Truly.

In this initial research phase, we are working with eight key partners, all in different spaces in Canada, the US and UK, to help us determine the generalizability of the survey tool and our research. 

Sample of Past Research

As our team collectively has been involved in research projects too many to detail below. We wanted to share with potential clients a sampling of projects we have been involved in over the past several decades.

• Individual perceptions of profound moments in the life through the lens of Steven Lukes’ three dimensions of power

• Scalability of work-integrated learning in post-secondary education through a centralized model

• Future of work and education in a post-COVID world

• Emotional, physical, and behavioural patterning and assessment

• Sustainability in urban agriculture

• Use of social media in disaster communication

• And many, many more!

  Please note: The majority of the research conducted below has been done through private consulting, and has, therefore, not been published in peer reviewed journals.