About Canyon Heights Management International
CHMI is an Indigenous-owned company focused on helping First Nations governing bodies maintain continuity across meetings, decisions, responsibilities, records and leadership transitions.
Gabrielle Ollinger
Gabrielle brings experience in federal First Nations funding administration, governance support, and organizational capacity development.
Her work has reinforced a practical principle: important governance knowledge must remain understandable and accessible through changes in leadership, personnel, and responsibility.
CHMI brings that perspective to governance continuity services designed to respect Nation authority and strengthen local capacity.
Our guiding principles
Our work is grounded in a simple commitment: strengthen governance continuity while respecting the authority, knowledge, and responsibilities of each Nation. These principles guide how we design, deliver, and support our services.
Nation authority remains with the Nation.
CHMI supports, not replaces, your decision-making authority.
Decisions, approvals, and direction remain with the people authorized by the Nation. CHMI provides practical support without assuming that authority.
Approved records remain under client-defined control.
Your information. Your governance.
Governance information remains under client-defined control, with clear responsibility for maintaining records, preserving context, and managing access.
Local coordinators receive practical support and capacity development.
Real tools. Lasting confidence.
We support the people responsible for keeping governance work moving, with practical guidance, clear processes, and continuity through personnel changes.
Technology supports human responsibility rather than replacing it.
Built for people, not instead of them.
Technology helps organize information, clarify outstanding work, and preserve decision history. It does not replace human judgment, direction, or approval.
Proposed SmartSync capabilities are not represented as operational until tested and verified.
We move forward with care and clarity.
We distinguish between established services and capabilities still in development. New functionality is tested and verified before being relied upon in governance operations.
Governance continuity is not simply about retaining documents.
It’s about preserving the context needed to understand what was decided, who was responsible, what evidence was approved and what remains unfinished.
When that continuity is protected, your Nation can move forward with confidence—today and tomorrow.
Let’s begin with a conversation.
If your governing body is experiencing leadership change, scattered information, unclear follow-through or heavy reliance on one coordinator, we would be pleased to learn more.
A conversation does not commit your organization to a pilot. It is simply an opportunity to discuss what is happening now and what the organization wants to strengthen.