Academic Partnerships

Amy Oliver + Co has deep roots in community pharmacy, teaching and education, advocacy, and hospital practice. That diversity allows us to bring a wide-angle understanding of the profession and connect academic learning with lived experience across care settings. 

We see universities as essential partners. We help bridge academic learning with operational realities and leadership environments, so graduates and faculty are equipped with insight, confidence, and practical tools to thrive in evolving practice landscapes.

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Strategic Advisory and Facilitation for Health Organizations

We support organizations that are are seeking greater clarity, stronger leadership alignment, and more effective decision-making. We help them to reduce complexity, strengthen how strategy is set, and improve how leadership operates across teams and governance structures.

  • Designed for boards, executive teams, and leadership groups who want strategy that translates into action.

    This includes:

    • Strategic planning retreats (in-person or virtual)

    • Executive and board working sessions

    • Multi-year strategy development

    • Strategic refresh, reset, or rescue engagements

    • Priority setting and decision framework design

    • Execution alignment sessions

  • For organizations that want meetings to become working sessions instead of reporting forums.

    We support:

    • Governance facilitation

    • Board development days

    • Executive leadership meetings

    • Cross-functional planning sessions

    • Stakeholder summits

    • Difficult or high-stakes conversations

  • In addition to planning and facilitation, AOco provides tailored advisory support across leadership and organizational performance.

    • Leadership & Team Development

    • Communication & Workforce Capability

    • Member & Workforce Service

    • Design, Branding & Communications Support

How We Support Pharmacy Education

We hold deep relationships with independent community pharmacies across Canada. These partnerships give us insight into marketing trends, innovation challenges, leadership expectations, workforce realities, and patient needs that cannot be learned from the outside. We translate those insights into enriching academic experiences through real-world examples, practice cases, and current industry perspectives.

Importantly, our work extends beyond supporting students. We equip faculty, academic leaders, and preceptors with skills, frameworks, and confidence to teach, mentor, and lead differently. Whether through leadership coaching, curriculum collaboration, or professional development workshops, we strengthen the people who shape tomorrow’s pharmacists.

  • We help students build clarity, confidence, and capability as they prepare for practice. Through guest lectures, career and leadership talks, innovation sessions, personal branding workshops,and case-based learning, we help them see what is possible in pharmacy. We also support capstone projects, offer mentorship, and enhance internship experiences by connecting academic learning with the realities of business, operations, leadership, and patient care.

  • AOco opens doors to pharmacy environments of various kinds that offer rich learning beyond traditional placements. Students gain access to innovation sites, curated project experiences,community-embedded research opportunities, and preceptorship settings where leadership,business development, and practice transformation are actively happening. This creates exposure to models of care and career pathways they may never otherwise see.

  • The transition from student to practitioner is demanding. We help prepare learners by offering curriculum modules and facilitated discussions on professional and personal well being,psychological safety, resilience, and sustainable career pathways. Our goal is to equip future pharmacists not only with clinical knowledge but with the emotional and operational tools  they need to thrive long term.

  • We bridge academia with the environments where graduates will work. AOco connects faculty and students with emerging practice leaders, innovative pharmacy sites, national and international examples, and cross-sector voices. We also share market insights and workforce realities to help academic programs align curriculum with practice trends and employer expectations.

Our Work with Universities

Beyond supporting students, we equip faculty, academic leaders, and preceptors with skills, frameworks, and confidence to teach, mentor, and lead differently. Whether through leadership coaching, curriculum collaboration, or professional development workshops, we strengthen the people who shape tomorrow’s pharmacists. 

Most importantly, our work generates outcomes. We help pharmacy organizations and teams grow, strengthen culture, evolve services, develop leaders, and improve healthcare outcomes. Those results translate into case studies, research questions, and applied examples that universities can leverage in both student learning and faculty development. 

  • Provide coaching, facilitated development sessions, strategic planning support, and advisory collaboration for instructors, professors, academic directors, and leadership teams.

  • Offer services that enhance curriculum relevance, enrich student learning, and elevate faculty leadership capability.

  • Bring contemporary practice voices, sector trends, and real-time leadership insights directly to students and faculty.

  • Translate practice realities into classroom learning through content on leadership, innovation, operations, and career development.

  • Help schools assess feasibility, align with industry expectations, and identify the future-focused competencies students will need.

  • Facilitate on-site learning opportunities where students or academic teams observe real operational strategy and leadership in action.

  • Provide practical, inspiring pathways for universities to stay aligned with the changing world of pharmacy while strengthening the people who shape its future.

What Makes Us Different

When you work with us, you can expect a relationship rooted thoughtful preparation, supported by a strong operational foundation. We show up clear, direct, and ready, with facilitation that is intelligent and practical. We do not stop at big ideas. You leave with clear implementation steps, guidance you can act on, and outcomes that move work forward.