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Deborah Hinton

she/her

Team elder & master strategist
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Deborah guides clients to discover and explore insights, achieve breakthrough ideas, catalyse change and build momentum towards their social impact goals.

She perfectly melds her instinctive strategic mindset with curiosity, connecting people and ideas to help her clients strengthen their communities and increase their impact. Her deepest desire is to foster sustainable change with clients. Having a wide-ranging career, she has worked for 30 plus years with teams of all kinds to help them elevate and achieve organisation’s goals. For Deborah, there is no greater satisfaction than to see projects evolve into something beyond what her clients could even have imagined.

She co-founded a community-driven interfaith project, CivitasX, that delivers meals to unhoused individuals and encourages mutual learning through person-to-person conversations. After becoming a Climate Reality Leader she volunteered as co-lead with a UK not-for-profit working to certify Climate Change Teachers. This experience sparked Deborah’s present interest in finding ways for older generations to be allies to younger generations who are facing the consequences of the climate crisis. She has since been certified in Carbon Literacy. Deborah is committed to taking actions big and small in favour of people and the planet.

Deborah is also a big fan of visiting contemporary art and photography collections. She is an impassioned cook and entertainer, and she occasionally ventures into the fields of architecture and urban planning, too.

My Settler Story

My
Settler
Story

Deb is a 2nd generation settler. Her ancestors came to Turtle Island from Yorkshire, England as farm and field workers.  Deb was born on Robinson-Huron Treaty land, the traditional territory of the Atikameksheng Anishnaabeg. Today she lives with gratitude on Tiohtià:ke the traditional unceded homelands of the Kanien’keha:ka. Deb attended the National Truth & Reconciliation hearings in Montreal and took the University of Alberta Indigenous Canada training as just two concrete steps in her journey to deepen her understanding of the impact of colonisation.

A settler story is a personal history that focuses on your connection to the land. At Phil, we wanted to share our settler stories out of respect for the unceded Indigenous territories we live, work, and play on. 

Phil is also committed to building trust by respecting and amplifying Indigenous ways of knowing and the true history of colonialism. 

That’s why our settler stories are important to us. What does your story mean to you?

Use this resource to learn about the lands your personal history has touched: https://native-land.ca/ 

A peek into Deborah’s life

You might find her walking along the Lachine Canal or up Mount Royal, always keeping Marshall McLuhan’s quote in mind, “There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

A sign on a fence saying "Nuclear Winter Will Fix Global Warming".
Freshly washed tomatoes and dark red apples.
A small crowd of people standing outside with umbrellas