Together with our partners and clients, we work towards solutions for a healthy, sustainable planet and give those ideas a voice.
Today, collectively, we face climate change, a loss of biodiversity, increasingly-erratic weather and displaced people, all challenges requiring strong decision-making in the face of difficult choices.
At the same time new technologies, and greater awareness of the value of social equity, diversity and inclusivity, offer exciting opportunities to create sustainable solutions for a brighter future. With the necessary ingredients of innovation, forward-looking policies and public support, we can strengthen global prosperity while meeting essential NetZero targets. Sectors like energy, transportation, building construction, advanced manufacturing, healthcare and agriculture will be critical to this mission.
Through innovative technical solutions, forward-thinking business plans, and effective communications, we can engage decision makers and civil society to create the conditions to meet the goals of a sustainable, prosperous future.
In Canada and worldwide, Querencia Partners is working with our partners and clients to achieve the goals that will make a difference for the better world of tomorrow.
To learn more or to work together, contact Jacquie Hoornweg at JHoornweg@QuerenciaPartners.com.
Sector expertise
Technical, business and communications solutions working in harmony
Bringing together the strength of technical and social solutions is what we do best at Querencia Partners.
Whether you are trying to site new infrastructure, maintain a social licence to operate, or innovate to strengthen your value proposition, QP is a thought partner that can help build the technical solution and a relevant business strategy that will meet stakeholder expectations. Then, we can help you make sense of the data, tell your story, connect with communities and help earn the social, regulatory and technical acceptance.
Energy
From energy systems engineering to communications and regulation on specific generation, QP has breadth and depth of expertise and experience in electricity generation and grid development. Our work takes us from communication of nuclear R&D, including SMR development, to low-carbon grid electrification, as the sector transitions to NetZero. With work in areas like advanced nuclear technologies, fusion and hydrogen, we are working in the future, today.
Cities
Global cities and local solutions are a big part of our work. Specialties include system resilience, climate change adaptation, waste management, planning and public consultation and communications.
Innovation
We connect ideas to the people who matter most by bringing the invention out of the lab and into the market. Together we’ll develop engagement and communications with stakeholders in government, regulatory bodies and communities who have the power to help turn those ideas into reality.
Environment and Waste Management
Everything we do has some impact on the environment. Our responsibility is to manage the risks and minimize the impact created from waste streams through responsible stewardship. At QP, we combine technical and social solutions to support some of the most critical sustainability projects, in all parts of the life cycle.
Our work
Build trust
Without trust amongst stakeholders and communities, our best projects stagnate as unfulfilled intentions. Reputation management is at the intersection of business and communication strategy and at the heart of project success. We help build trusted, respected and influential brands starting with a principle-based business plan that carries forward into all facets of your relationships and communications, from digital platforms, to stakeholder, community and employee relations.
Build communities
The QP expertise in urban and regional infrastructure and management includes decades of work in energy systems, waste management and government relations. It includes a working-level understanding of how technical reports develop, move through political channels, and the meaningful public consultation necessary to realize project success. QP also specializes in data management that helps communities understand the world around them and how their practices compare to others.
Build a better future
With our partners and clients, QP solves problems, builds solutions and furthers innovation through a facilitative process that includes relevant business strategies, technical solutions, meaningful public communication, engagement and consultation. We work best when we work together as part of a larger collaborative team. QP seeks to bring people together in everything we do and to be a partner in your success. Together, we are working on the solutions that will build a better future.
Thought leadership
Committed to creating sustainable solutions through collaboration
Sharing, learning, teaching
Featured publications
Querencia Partners regularly produces and contributes to academic and industry thought leadership on topics of resiliency and sustainability in cities, energy systems and waste management among other topics.
Querencia Partners
Jacquie Hoornweg, MCM, ABC
Managing Partner (she/her)
jhoornweg@querenciapartners.com
LinkedIn
Twitter: @JacquieHoornweg
Jacquie was a member of the executive leadership team at Ontario Power Generation from 2011-2014 leading the Corporate Relations and Communications team across Ontario. She currently teaches energy policy at Ontario Tech University, where she is an adjunct professor. She also teaches reputation management at McMaster University. She’s led communications and policy teams in both private practice and as executive director at the Brilliant Energy Institute at Ontario Tech. Her efforts in nuclear leadership and communications were recognized with the Howard A. Smith Outstanding Contribution Award by the Canadian Nuclear Society and Canadian Nuclear Association in 2021. She is a fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Dan Hoornweg, PEng, PhD
Partner (he/him)
dhoornweg@querenciapartners.com
LinkedIn
Twitter: @UrbanScape
Dan Hoornweg is co-owner of Querencia Partners Canada Ltd. Passionate about sustainable cities; a manager, researcher, board director, professor and mentor, Dan spent two decades at the World Bank working with cities worldwide. His depth of experience is drawn from his work with more than 350 local governments, plus provincial and national agencies globally. He has also served as the Province of Ontario’s Chief Safety and Risk Officer and worked with the City of Guelph and Government of Bermuda. In Ontario Tech University’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Dan teaches energy and urban systems and his research focuses on energy and material flow analysis, transportation, and the local science and politics of sustainability. Dan’s degrees include Earth Sciences (University of Waterloo), Masters in Environmental Engineering (Guelph), and a PhD in Civil (Sustainability) Engineering (University of Toronto, 2015).
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Contact:
Jacquie Hoornweg
jhoornweg@querenciapartners.com
(416) 909-3773
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