Our Team
A development advisory and partnership practice.
Rhizomic is a development advisory and partnership practice.
We work with places, organizations, communities and institutions, often with several of them at once, around the same problem.
Our work combines research and analysis with the practical business of designing programs, building partnerships, strengthening capabilities and staying involved while things get built.
We are a small core practice with a network of collaborators, assembled around the problem rather than an organizational chart.
Alireza Farahani
Regional development, organizational capacity and policy
A development practitioner and researcher with more than twenty years across regional economies, clusters and small business, organizational development, industrial policy and community-based development. Work spanning municipal government, international development, academia and private industry, in Canada and internationally.
Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani
Sustainable communities and environmental planning
A geographer and sustainable-development scholar working across urban and environmental planning, social sustainability and organizational sustainability. Research and teaching in Canada and internationally, including corporate environmental and social sustainability.
Aliakbar Farahani
Business management and organizational growth
A business manager with a background in telecommunications and service businesses, combining management practice with graduate training in business and service quality. Work across Iran, Sweden and the UAE.
Behnam Zoghi Roudsari
Development policy and evidence-based analysis
An economist and policy analyst working on poverty, inequality, social welfare and development policy. Combines quantitative and data-driven analysis with policy design, including research on inclusive economic transformation and emerging technologies.
Razieh Rezabeigisani
Sustainable transformation and development governance
An urban planner and human geographer working across municipal practice, neighbourhood development and academic research, with a focus on stakeholder collaboration and climate-related urban challenges. Currently a researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Razieh leads Rhizomic’s Community & Sustainable Development practice with Azadeh.
Siamak Khorrami
Innovation, product strategy and economic development
A product and innovation leader with experience developing and scaling technology products, including senior AI product roles. Combines product strategy and organizational leadership with graduate training in local economic development and business development.
Mo Feyzbakhsh
Marketing, brand and entrepreneurial growth
An entrepreneur and marketing strategist working with startups and small businesses on branding, digital marketing and growth. Founder of Ripple Agency and active in Vancouver's entrepreneurial ecosystem through startup and business-development initiatives.
