Develop leaders who can drive change in everyday work. We focus on a few concrete behaviours, like clearer expectations, better feedback and smarter decision‑making, and practise them in realistic situations.
We tailor programmes to your context and leadership challenges, combining workshops, simulations and on‑the‑job experiments. Leaders leave with practical tools, shared language and a clear plan for how to show up differently with their teams.
Help teams build trust, handle conflict and solve real problems together.
Strong teams don’t happen by chance. They’re shaped by intention and practice. We support teams in building the trust, alignment, and behavioural patterns needed to work at their best.
Through tailored workshops, team diagnostics, and facilitated sessions, we help groups define their purpose, clarify roles and expectations, and strengthen their ability to collaborate and make decisions. Whether newly formed or long established, we enable teams to operate with greater focus, accountability, and resilience.
Run focused workshops and sprints on topics like feedback, psychological safety, decision‑making or cross‑silo collaboration. We keep the format practical and interactive, using real examples from your organisation rather than generic cases.
Each sprint ends with specific commitments, simple tools and follow‑up suggestions that teams can apply immediately. You get visible behaviour change around a concrete issue, without the overhead of a large programme.
Design strategic learning journeys that build the capabilities your strategy depends on. These programmes are created for larger parts of the organisation and aimed at translating overall company strategy into concrete behaviours, skills and ways of working.
We align each journey with your learning and development strategy, so individual modules, simulations and on‑the‑job experiments all pull in the same direction. Over time, this creates a shared language, consistent leadership habits and a stronger pipeline of people who can actually deliver on your strategic ambitions.
We help you move from “learning as an event” to “development as an ongoing practice.”
We start with your strategic direction: which capabilities do you need in leaders and teams to deliver your ambitions? From there, we design learning journeys that:
We design learning experiences that are as close to reality as possible. Simulations, scenarios and on‑the‑job experiments let leaders and teams practise in live situations, not safe abstractions. We borrow methods from service design to shape the learning journey as an engaging employee experience, while keeping development outcomes tightly linked to business value.
Most programmes create insight but little visible change. People leave inspired, then everyday pressures take over.
Canoe’s Learning & Development approach ties every step to three anchors:
Our clients have reported clearer expectations, more candid dialogue and visible improvements in cross‑functional collaboration. We pay close attention to the conditions for learning. Trust, honest challenge and shared responsibility, and connect development to how mandates, decision‑making and norms really operate in your organisation. Over time, you build organisational muscles. Leaders who can drive change, teams who learn and improve together, and a culture where development is part of how work gets done.
Several leaders across the digital organisations in Equinor highlighted project Storm, as a best‑practice example of how strong end‑user engagement and thoughtful design can significantly elevate project outcomes. The approach is setting the bar and should be pushed even further.
Canoe has supported ERC with design services for several years, providing highly competent advice when we needed it. Their flexibility, strategic insight, and ability to adapt to changing needs have been crucial to the good results. A trusted partner we truly value.
The agile working methodology has enabled us to execute with a truly integrated partner team, continuous testing and embracing new data creating Next-Gen RAS
Kolumbus has worked with Canoe developing our cultural building project "KULtur”. Through the entire process we have benefited from a brilliant service attitude and an ability to turn around quickly when needed!
We simply would not be where we are without them. From day one, they brought clarity to roles, aligned our product architecture with how people actually work, and built real momentum through rapid prototyping and strategy sessions. Their support with DevOps and ISO 27001 gave us the confidence to grow safely. They make you feel like their only customer, no fuss, they simply deliver. I've seen billion-dollar companies that don't achieve the same quality of work. Most importantly, they've become genuine friends and a real part of the Stepwise family.
Canoe has played a key role in the design of the Stepwise application and has been central to improving the user experience. They thoroughly understand the user's needs, ask good questions and simplify complex challenges. Canoe sees things from multiple perspectives, challenges constructively and contributes to better solutions. They standardise the design to create wholeness and consistency, are reliable, take ownership and deliver quality on time.
UX-bidraget har gjort samarbeidet i teamet mer effektivt og helhetlig. Gjennom god kartlegging av prosesser og behov har det vært enkelt å jobbe tett sammen mellom design og utvikling, med en tydelig og sømløs overgang fra innsikt til konkrete design/prosess løsninger. Prosessene har blitt klarere uten å bli tunge, noe som har gitt bedre flyt og høyere kvalitet i leveransene.
Canoe have been partners with Stepwise from the very beginning. They have helped us shape the organisation and the platform's user experience, ensuring that structure, workflows, and design work together in practice. The collaboration has been hands-on, thoughtful, dedicated, and important in turning an early idea into a successful product and service for our clients globally.
