Tsunami Impact
HARNESSING THE POWER OF
LIVED EXPERIENCES TO DRIVE
CHANGE In BUSINESS AND
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At Tsunami Solutions, we build global partnerships based on trust, respect, and transparency creating an environmentally and socially sustainable business.
Tsunami Impact is built upon 3 pillars of ethical business practices assembled to improve the social and environmental impacts of our business.
Procurement
Tsunami prioritizes vendors with SOC II certification to ensure rigorous standards of security, development, ethics, and human resources. We value social procurement, following our third-party management policy. Tsunami Impact guides our interactions with stakeholders, fostering enduring relationships based on respect and trust for a sustainable ecosystem.
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In the turbulent seas of the global marketplace, Tsunami Impact stands as our guiding beacon. It illuminates our path, shaping our interactions with all stakeholders – suppliers, partners, customers – guiding us toward relationships that are as enduring and robust as the ocean itself. Rooted in mutual respect, trust, and shared objectives, these connections transcend transactions, nurturing a sustainable ecosystem of symbiotic relationships.
Procurement represents our commitment to work with vendors who have business' practices that align with our values.
Tsunami Solutions focusses on providing equitable opportunity for everyone. In hiring practices Tsunami, has a proclivity towards neuro-diversity. Hiring people with learning disabilities stands strong in Tsunami’s unwavering belief hat everyone deserves the same opportunity.
Female Leadership: Tsunami's majority ownership and leadership consists of talented and dedicated women, with Heather Touhey at the helm as our CEO. We strongly believe in empowering female-identifying individuals in leadership roles.
Tsunami actively participates in the 50-30 Challenge, an initiative that encourages organizations to enhance diversity, aiming for gender parity and representation of underrepresented groups. We strive to recruit Indigenous peoples and other equity-deserving groups and currently employ approximately 30% self-identified Indigenous individuals.
To ensure opportunities are accessible, we actively seek employees through Indigenous recruitment platforms. This approach allows us to connect with talent from diverse backgrounds and create an inclusive workforce.
Tsunami is dedicated to providing educational opportunities to youth and young adults. Through partnerships with institutions such as BCIT, VIU, and UBC, we offer internships, co-ops, and other programs to help young individuals explore careers in technology.
Tsunami prioritizes vendor contracts with organizations that represent Indigenous and equity-deserving groups. For instance, we collaborate with Virtual Gurus, a company that shares our commitment to diversity, as demonstrated in their dedication to remote work and supporting underrepresented groups.
Extending our reach: Letters to OSHA for healthcare worker safety being brought into the UK. Write more here.
Products with a
Purpose
Every product under the Tsunami Impact banner goes beyond being a software solution – it becomes a lifeline tailored to our customers' needs. With a deep understanding of diverse human experiences, Tsunami ensures an unwavering commitment to accessibility design, amplifying the voices often unheard, such as those of immigrant female healthcare workers.
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Products with a Purpose is the second pillar of Tsunami Impact.
Working towards providing a safe work place for everyone.
Tsunami Solution products are more than just software, they are a guarantee.
Every product under the Tsunami Impact banner goes beyond being a software solution – it becomes a lifeline uniquely crafted to meet our customers' needs. Drawing on our lived experiences, we ensure an unwavering commitment to accessibility design and a profound understanding of diverse human experiences. This approach empowers voices often unheard, such as those of immigrant female healthcare workers.
Tsunami is known to have exceptional expertise in lone worker safety within local municipalities, cities, towns, and regional districts. Tsunami not only provides services to dozens of local government agencies across the province, but many of Tsunami’s customers are also under the umbrella of Metro Vancouver, including the City of Vancouver, the City of New Westminster, the City of White Rock, the City of Richmond Fire and Rescue, and the District of West Vancouver.
Developed over more than two decades, Tsunami’s resultant knowledge and expertise are invaluable resources and assets for its clients, as Tsunami employees have become experts in listening to, understanding, and responding to client needs and obstacles. As a result, Tsunami employees can provide an expertly crafted, custom implementation that matches the Client’s requirements. The Tsunami team excels in advising and consulting clients on the appropriate adoption of lone-worker monitoring technology, so much so that Tsunami experts are regularly recruited for speaking engagements, online training sessions, and technical responses in Canada and around the world.
Practices
Tsunami Impact is committed to fostering a vibrant culture built on values such as empathy, excellence, family, empowerment, and innovation. These values shape their operations, promoting equitable hiring practices, psychological safety, and equal opportunities. Diversity is actively sought, celebrated, and nurtured in their environment.
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Female Leadership: Tsunami's majority ownership and leadership consists of talented and dedicated women, with Heather Touhey at the helm as our CEO. We strongly believe in empowering female-identifying individuals in leadership roles.
Certifications and Recognition: We meet the criteria set by the Women's Business Enterprise Canada (WBE) and Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Furthermore, we are actively pursuing WBE certification, emphasizing our commitment to promoting women-owned businesses and diversity in the industry.
Inclusion of Indigenous and Equity-Deserving Groups: Tsunami actively participates in the 50-30 Challenge, an initiative that encourages organizations to enhance diversity, aiming for gender parity and representation of underrepresented groups. We strive to recruit Indigenous peoples and other equity-deserving groups and currently employ approximately 30% self-identified Indigenous individuals.
Targeted Recruitment: To ensure opportunities are accessible, we actively seek employees through Indigenous recruitment platforms. This approach allows us to connect with talent from diverse backgrounds and create an inclusive workforce.
Youth Empowerment: Tsunami is dedicated to providing educational opportunities to youth and young adults. Through partnerships with institutions such as BCIT, VIU, and UBC, we offer internships, co-ops, and other programs to help young individuals explore careers in technology.
Supporting Women in Technology: We are proud participants in the W Venture Women in Technology program, offering mentorship opportunities to women in the technology field. Additionally, we actively engage in speaking engagements with organizations such as Girls in Tech, advocating for gender equality in the industry. Vendor
Contracts: Tsunami prioritizes vendor contracts with organizations that represent Indigenous and equity-deserving groups. For instance, we collaborate with Virtual Gurus, a company that shares our commitment to diversity, as demonstrated in their dedication to remote work and supporting underrepresented groups.
Training for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Here at Tsunami, we believe that education is key to fostering an inclusive environment. Therefore, all our employees participate in DEI training facilitated by Kantola DEI Training, ensuring that we are equipped with the knowledge and understanding needed to create a supportive workplace.
Internally, Tsunami Impact fosters a vibrant culture that champions empathy, excellence, family, empowerment, and innovation. Just as the depths of the ocean give rise to its waves, these values shape our operational landscape, fostering equitable hiring practices, psychological safety, and equal opportunities. In this environment, diversity isn't merely welcomed; it's actively sought, celebrated, and nurtured.
Tsunami Solutions focusses on providing equitable opportunity for everyone. In hiring practices Tsunami, has a proclivity towards neuro-diversity. Hiring people with learning disabilities stands strong in Tsunami’s unwavering belief hat everyone deserves the same opportunity.
Charitable Donations
-> People we do business with, (strategic sponsoring)
Christmas card
-> (environmental impact, and social)
Commitment to applied research and developments.
Spends 20% time resources partnered with formal research institutions. allowing for our products and services to be based of cutting edge technology and data driven decisions.