Cathexis is a Certified B Corporation® and Ontario small business specializing in evaluation, applied research, and impact measurement. We help organizations gather and use information to understand the impact of their work.
cathexis (noun): intense emotional energy invested in people, ideas, or things.
Cathexis is what we bring to our work every day.
Through evaluation, we build understanding that drives impact.
We are socially-minded professionals who are determined to make a difference. We go the extra mile to ensure our work gives our clients the insight they need to drive improvement.
We are adventurous, creative, progressive, and open-minded. We continuously grow and learn to serve our clients better.
Our commitment to professionalism and deep respect for human dignity shape all aspects of our work.
We enjoy working collaboratively with our clients and each other. We appreciate diversity and know we can achieve more through teamwork than individual effort.
We aspire to make the evaluation process enjoyable, and to share our energy and excitement with our clients.
Cathexis has been a Certified B Corporation® since 2019. This designation is available to companies worldwide that meet verified social, environmental, and governance standards. The standards emphasize continuous improvement and accountability to a company’s mission, workers, community, clients, and environment.
We became a B Corporation because we wanted to be part of the global community of businesses that are working toward a more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable world. Our B Corp status gives us a rigorous standard to continue measuring ourselves against, because we believe there is always room to learn, change, and improve.
Read more about our continuing B Corp journey on our blog.
We are committed to operating a socially responsible, progressive business. When you work with us, you work with a team that cares about impact: on the environment, on marginalized and vulnerable persons, and on our community. We are also committed to protecting the privacy of individuals and their personal information. See our privacy policy.
As part of Cathexis’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, we developed our first Reconciliation Action Plan in 2022. Our Reconciliation Action Plan outlines our journey to date and specifies the commitments we’re making to pursue Truth and Reconciliation across four areas:
As part of this work, we have made financial contributions to the following organizations:
In April 2024, our team approved our first formal Anti-oppression Action Plan. We developed this plan because we have, for a long time, believed in and worked towards advancing anti-oppression, justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Our commitment to anti-oppression involves continuous reflection on how what we do and how we show up can support or disrupt unfair systems that mistreat, exploit, and marginalize certain groups of people, based on race, Indigeneity, sex or gender, sexuality, ability, body size, class, age, citizenship, and other characteristics that make us diverse.
Our current Action Plan sets out:
Our Action Plan is intended to lead us toward creating and maintaining an inclusive, equitable, and respectful work environment, and to contribute to positive social change.
