Make Your Research Resonate
Communication support for researchers who want to make a bigger impact
Make Your Research Resonate
Get buy-in for your bold, evidence-backed ideas
Make Your Research Resonate
Get buy-in for your bold,
evidence-backed ideas
You know your team’s research has great potential. And for some reason, decision-makers just aren’t seeing that—despite all the time and energy you’ve invested in trying to clarify your ideas for them.
When you’re communicating with people like government officials, healthcare leaders, and funders, clarity is not enough.
Effective knowledge mobilization takes more than Plain Language summaries and colorful infographics. You can provide detailed explanations that are jargon-free, and still…
- Policymakers nod politely, but they won’t commit to any real changes
- Funders say, “That’s interesting,” yet your grant doesn’t get renewed
- Decision-makers admire your passion, but they don’t publicly endorse your ideas
- Practitioners say your recommendations are well-meaning but unrealistic
You don’t need to keep explaining and re-explaining because the problem isn’t only that people don’t understand your research. Your message isn’t resonating with them.
When research does resonate, it connects deeply with your audience and produces genuine impact:
- People lean into your presentations.
- They ask questions about how to implement your findings.
- They become champions and collaborators.
- They trust you as their go-to advisor on how to translate research into practice.
We know how hard it is to simplify research without feeling like you’re compromising your intellectual integrity.
We also know that standard communication training rarely fits the way researchers think, how they learn, or the situations they encounter when sharing findings with lay audiences.
That’s why we’ve developed an approach to capacity-building rooted in coaching, not generic advice about how to speak and write more clearly.
Your brilliant research deserves to be communicated brilliantly. As your learning partner, we enable you to connect with any audience and build the relationships you need to move your innovative ideas forward.
Your path to more impactful communication starts here.
We know your research is unique, and so are your goals for translating it into real-world outcomes. That’s why we never recommend a learning solution before we learn about your situation.
The first step is a free, 45-minute brainstorm session with our founder, Dr. Dawn Henwood.
You’ll explore what’s happening with your team’s communication, the changes you want to see, possible learning approaches, and whether Clarity Connect could be the right learning partner for you.
If it seems like we could be a good fit, after the session, Dawn will share a customized Learning Action Plan—your roadmap to communication that resonates and gets results.
It’s not that people don’t understand your research. It’s just not resonating with them.
It’s not that people don’t understand your research. It’s just not resonating with them.
When research does resonate, it truly connects with your audience:
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People lean into your presentations.
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They ask questions about how to implement your ideas.
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They become champions and collaborators.
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They trust you as their go-to advisor on how to turn evidence into practice.
When research does resonate, it truly connects with your audience:
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People lean into your presentations.
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They ask questions about how to implement your ideas.
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They become champions and collaborators.
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They trust you as their go-to advisor on how to turn evidence into practice.
We’re not your average communication or knowledge mobilization consultancy.
With 25 years of experience across various academic disciplines and industry sectors, we bring expertise that’s both broad and deep.
We understand the challenge of making complex ideas sizzle while preserving their intellectual substance. That’s why we’ve developed a humanist approach to translating research, which combines intellectual integrity with strategic thinking, creative storytelling, and persuasive communication.
Our methods help you go beyond Plain Language summaries. We help you truly connect with your audience so you can take them from “Who cares?” to “What’s next?”
We’re not your average communication or knowledge mobilization consultancy.
With 25 years of experience across various academic disciplines and industry sectors, we bring expertise that’s both broad and deep.
We understand the challenge of making complex ideas sizzle while preserving their intellectual substance. That’s why we’ve developed a humanist approach to translating research, which combines intellectual integrity with strategic thinking, creative storytelling, and persuasive communication.
Our methods help you go beyond Plain Language summaries. We help you truly connect with your audience so you can take them from “Who cares?” to “What’s next?”
We get that your research and your goals are unique.
No cookie-cutter solutions here.
Here’s how our bespoke services work:
1. Book a free consultation. Talk through your needs over a 30-minute Zoom call with our founder Dr. Dawn Henwood.
2. Receive a proposal. We’ll recommend how we can best work together to achieve your outcomes.
3. Launch your project. We’ll provide a clear roadmap to guide our collaboration so we stay on track with your goals and your timeline while allowing flexibility to adapt as needed.
We get that your research and your goals are unique.
No cookie-cutter solutions here.
Here’s how our bespoke services work:
1. Book a free consultation. Talk through your needs over a 30-minute Zoom call with our founder Dr. Dawn Henwood.
2. Receive a proposal. We’ll recommend how we can best work together to achieve your outcomes.
3. Launch your project. We’ll provide a clear roadmap to guide our collaboration so we stay on track with your goals and your timeline while allowing flexibility to adapt as needed.
Meet Our Founder
Dawn Henwood’s PhD in Victorian literature (University of Toronto) has served as a launchpad into a career spanning both communication and learning design. Drawing on her background in university teaching, she has gained deep insight into how people learn by working in instructional design and experiential learning.
Author of two books on business communication, over the past 25+ years, Dawn has taught more than 2,000 experts how to make their complex ideas resonate with any audience. She has worked across an eclectic range of fields, including kinesiology, defense technology, pharmacy, environmental science, remote sensing, and more.
Dawn doesn’t teach to impart information; she creates rich, personalized learning experiences that enable quick wins and lasting behavior change. Highlights of her teaching career have included running a national technical communication program for a Big Four firm in the US, delivering workshops for the African Development Bank in Nigeria, and building the Technical Writing Certificate and the Microcredential in Communication Skills for Knowledge Mobilization offered through Dalhousie University.
About Our Founder
Dawn Henwood has a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and more than 25 years of experience serving academia, business, not-for-profits, and government. Author of two books on business communication, she has published in top-tier journals and created a wide variety of communication products in multiple media. A seasoned strategist, she’s equally at home in the lecture hall and the boardroom. She has also taught more than 2,000 people how to communicate with more clarity and confidence and has developed the Microcredential in Communication Skills for Knowledge Mobilization offered through Dalhousie University.
About Our Founder
Dawn Henwood has a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and more than 25 years of experience serving academia, business, not-for-profits, and government. Author of two books on business communication, she has published in top-tier journals and created a wide variety of communication products in multiple media. A seasoned strategist, she’s equally at home in the lecture hall and the boardroom. She has also taught more than 2,000 people how to communicate with more clarity and confidence and has developed the Microcredential in Communication Skills for Knowledge Mobilization offered through Dalhousie University.
At Clarity Connect, we know that you want your research to create transformational change.
To do that, you need to gain the attention and trust of nonresearchers, people like funders and investors, policymakers, and community partners.
The issue is that decision-makers without your expertise see the world from a different perspective, which isn’t obvious until you learn how to read your audience and adapt to them.
We believe that any researcher can learn to communicate research knowledge in ways that cause lay audiences to lean in. We also understand that research is demanding work, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for professional development.
That’s why we’ve developed our CORE method for equipping researchers with the essential skills they need to achieve their specific impact goals. This focused, flexible approach is:
Context-specific | We don’t waste time giving generic advice on topics that may or may not be useful. All instruction is tailored to your research and the communication situations you’re facing.
Outcomes-driven | Each learning engagement targets explicit learning outcomes, the behavioral change that needs to happen so you can make an impact, not just distribute knowledge.
Realistic | If your field is aerospace engineering, it won’t do you much good to view examples from biochemistry. We tailor training materials—including examples and tools—to your research and your intended audiences.
Efficient | We zero in on the precise communication skills you need for your goals. This means we keep group training sessions to a minimum, allowing ample time for individual coaching and feedback, either over Zoom or by email.
To explore how the CORE method could work for your team, book your free brainstorm session with Dawn today.
You may also want to check out our free library of more than 100 articles to help with research dissemination, science communication, and knowledge mobilization.
So you can stop explaining and instead start resonating and turning ideas into action.
At Clarity Connect,
we know that you want your research to create transformational change.
To do that, you need to gain the attention and trust of nonresearchers, people like funders and investors, CEOs, policymakers, and community partners.
The problem is that decision-makers without your expertise see the world from a different perspective and speak a different language, which makes it frustrating and fatiguing to deal with them.
We believe that the process of mobilizing research knowledge is complex, but it doesn’t need to be complicated. We also understand that your time and budget constraints are real, which is why our approach to translating research into impact is personalized and practical.
Here’s how we do it:
1. Discern | We conduct a thorough needs assessment to define the project goals and scope.
2. Design | We develop a project workplan, with clear milestones and deliverables.
3. Deliver | We integrate into your team and, working closely with you, we execute the project vision.
4. Debrief | We lead a guided reflection to help solidify what you’ve learned through the project and identify next steps.
So, book your free consult today. And in the meantime, check out our free library of more than 100 articles to help with research dissemination and knowledge mobilization.
So you can stop explaining and instead start resonating.
At Clarity Connect,
we know that you want your research to create transformational change.
To do that, you need to gain the attention and trust of nonresearchers, people like funders and investors, CEOs, policymakers, and community partners.
The problem is that decision-makers without your expertise see the world from a different perspective and speak a different language, which makes it frustrating and fatiguing to deal with them.
We believe that the process of mobilizing research knowledge is complex, but it doesn’t need to be complicated. We also understand that your time and budget constraints are real, which is why our approach to translating research into impact is personalized and practical.
Here’s how we do it:
1. Discern | We conduct a thorough needs assessment to define the project goals and scope.
2. Design | We develop a project workplan, with clear milestones and deliverables.
3. Deliver | We integrate into your team and, working closely with you, we execute the project vision.
4. Debrief | We lead a guided reflection to help solidify what you’ve learned through the project and identify next steps.
So, book your free consult today. And in the meantime, check out our free library of more than 100 articles to help with research dissemination and knowledge mobilization.
So you can stop explaining and instead start resonating.
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