We help high-performing people put their whole life together, so the self, the family, the business, the team and the community all pull in the same direction.
Consulting that holds the whole person, not just the company.
Retreats in nature. A year of support. Ellie in your pocket after that.
When one moves, the others feel it.
You want your own life to fit together, in every sphere.
It needs to run clearer and lighter, from strategy to team.
You can see where you are going. The steps between here and there need support.
~2x
Companies whose top team is aligned and working well together are almost twice as likely to achieve above-median financial performance.
McKinsey, October 2025, citing Keller and MeaneyYou have built something real. The company is moving, the team is capable, and you are good at what you do. And you can feel there is more in it: more to build, more of yourself to bring, more of life pulling the same way as the work.
The next gains come from how it all fits together, not from pushing harder. The people who go furthest get the person at the center, the family, the company, the team and the community all pointing the same way. When it lines up, the next move gets clearer and the whole thing gets lighter.
Going further is easier with the right people beside you.
25%
of CEOs of major Canadian organizations report frequent loneliness, and 55% report moderate but significant bouts. It stems from the weight of leadership, not a lack of connections.
Bourgoin et al., Harvard Business Review, December 2024 (107 CEOs)2.6x
Former elite athletes are about 2.6 times as likely as the general population to have depression, and it does not fade with years since retirement.
BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, December 2024What we do instead We work on how your self, family, business, team and community fit together.
81%
of founders do not openly share their stress, fears or challenges.
Startup Snapshot, 202365%
of founders rely on a partner or spouse for support, and 64% spend less time with friends and family.
Sifted founder survey, 2024
Realign to your nature.
Our lens is the whole ecosystem.
At every stage the effort it takes falls, while everything you are building rises. You leave with your own process. Each stage leaves you on firmer ground.
7 to 10 days, in person
A retreat in nature. We map all five spheres and workshop the plan.
1 month, remote
We work alongside you as the plan lands in your business, family and team.
Weekly, tapering to monthly
Check-ins until monthly is enough. Ellie covers the space between.
Yearly, optional
Come back if it is useful.
A schematic of the pattern we aim for, not measured data.
17%
Retreats spark new working ties: in a study of more than 700 law partners, those who attended had 24% more new collaboration requests in the next two months. Only about 17% of those new working relationships lasted two years. Ours is built for the year after.
Fortune, December 2025Priced for different stages of financial freedom.
Bespoke
A private retreat in nature, where challenge and stillness meet, then a year of support, with Ellie between calls.
Fractional and bespoke
StillGround Partners alongside your leadership team, as a fractional partner or a bespoke package, with the Magnus Associates practice behind it.
Ongoing
Regular coaching sessions that keep the whole picture moving, with Ellie between calls.
App
Our AI work and relationship coach, built by people. It meets you in the moments that land hardest.
We talk investment through on the first call.
22%
Manager engagement worldwide in 2025, down from 27%. Ellie gives every level the skills to make work and relationships fit.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2026Twenty-five years across countries and cultures, from early ventures and complex institutions to people starting over. We know human-first culture, and we know transition, funding, technology and strategy, worldwide.
Venture, funding and culture experience beside clinical-grade psychology. Not a wellness retreat. Not a strategy deck.
Nature gives you challenge and stillness together, away from the environment that created the problem.
A retreat becomes a year, then a lasting practice through Ellie.
People lead every engagement. Ellie supports between conversations, and what you share with it stays yours.
StillGround Partners grows out of Magnus Associates and Ellie: twenty-five years building organizations, twenty-five helping people hold up under pressure.
Romola believes people do their best work when they can be whole people, at work and everywhere else. She is a clinical psychologist with a doctorate, and has researched, published and practiced in organizational psychology.
She has spent twenty-five years helping organizations build healthy cultures and guiding leaders through transition and crisis, and today she is Director of Human Capital at Magnus Associates. What drives her is congruence: a life, a team and a workplace that line up with who people really are. It is the idea Ellie is built on, and it sits at the heart of StillGround Partners.
Paul helps people find the one clear direction inside a complicated situation. As a founding partner of Raiven Capital, a global early-stage technology fund rooted in Silicon Valley, Toronto and Dubai, he mentors founders and spots patterns early.
In more than twenty years of work with start-ups and global firms, he has built engaged, motivated teams, stayed steady through large-scale change, and sourced $1B for client initiatives. His gift is finding the vision a team can agree on and turning it into something real.
Joa is fascinated by what turns capable people into a team. He learned it playing football in Italy, Canada, England and the US, coached it with elite academy athletes, and researches it through business strategy at Raiven Capital, a global early-stage venture fund, where he supports market research and investor relations.
His work sits where coaching, elite team building and strategy meet, and at StillGround Partners he brings that, along with a sense of joy and wonder, to helping people build teams and lives that fit. Away from work he keeps a steady stream of side projects going, because he loves turning his own ideas and visions into reality.
Ben’s work is nature connection, in every form it takes. He has an MSc in Ecology and has worked across Canada in ecological restoration and conservation, from forests to backyards to large-scale projects.
He builds interactive nature sense grounds for corporations and schools, and brings humour and joy to his workshops and talks. He has run trainings around the world with leaders and teams, using the practice of Ecosystem Repair™ to help people reconnect with themselves and each other through joy and stillness in nature. A sports enthusiast and outdoor experience leader, he created the Right Action Man workshops, and an upcoming book, to reconnect men to a more congruent way of being. At StillGround Partners, he brings the work outdoors, where people meet both challenge and stillness.
The next great decisions get made from still ground.
Being grounded. We give you a place for stillness, so you can move well.
Tell us what you are working with. A person reads every request and will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Confidential. No pitch. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.