Three disciplines.
One defining lens.

Three disciplines.
One defining lens.

The minds, the methodology,
and the story behind the work.

The minds, the methodology,
and the story behind the work.

You didn't arrive here by accident.

Your work has evolved. Your reputation has grown.

But something in how you're being received hasn't caught up.

This is where we begin.

Tricia Forde

Tricia has spent more than two decades building the foundations organizations depend on when the stakes are high and the margin for error is narrow. Throughout her career, she has advised senior executives, navigated demanding legislative and policy environments, directed large-scale communications initiatives, and guided organizations through change that reshapes how they are seen, understood, and trusted.


What makes Tricia exceptional is not simply what she knows, but how she thinks. She sees the larger picture while recognizing the nuances that determine whether a plan succeeds or stalls. She anticipates risks, builds relationships that create meaningful momentum, and identifies opportunities others may overlook. Her instinct for connecting ideas to action and people to purpose has produced results that endure well beyond the work itself.


Her experience spans strategic communications, reputation management, stakeholder and Indigenous engagement, executive advisory services, organizational positioning, and complex issue management. She brings disciplined thinking alongside genuine creativity, understanding that the strongest solutions emerge when insight, innovation, and relationships are brought together with intention.


At Elixr Creative, Tricia is The Architect. She designs the structure on which everything else is built, ensuring that every direction is grounded, every message is purposeful, and every outcome is earned.

Tricia Forde

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Tricia has spent more than two decades building the foundations organizations depend on when the stakes are high and the margin for error is narrow. Throughout her career, she has advised senior executives, navigated demanding legislative and policy environments, directed large-scale communications initiatives, and guided organizations through change that reshapes how they are seen, understood, and trusted.


What makes Tricia exceptional is not simply what she knows, but how she thinks. She sees the larger picture while recognizing the nuances that determine whether a plan succeeds or stalls. She anticipates risks, builds relationships that create meaningful momentum, and identifies opportunities others may overlook. Her instinct for connecting ideas to action and people to purpose has produced results that endure well beyond the work itself.


Her experience spans strategic communications, reputation management, stakeholder and Indigenous engagement, executive advisory services, organizational positioning, and complex issue management. She brings disciplined thinking alongside genuine creativity, understanding that the strongest solutions emerge when insight, innovation, and relationships are brought together with intention.


At Elixr Creative, Tricia is The Architect. She designs the structure on which everything else is built, ensuring that every direction is grounded, every message is purposeful, and every outcome is earned.

Together, we build the strategic and visual architecture that communicates clarity, excellence, and conviction before a single word is spoken.

Riki Silzer

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Riki has spent more than three decades doing something deceptively rare: making organizations legible. Not simply visually compelling, but genuinely clear, so the right people can immediately understand who you are, what you stand for, and why it matters. As a strategic brand identity and communications specialist, she brings visual language, narrative, and organizational truth together, translating complexity into a signal that lands.


Her career spans government departments, arts and cultural institutions, established companies, and mission-driven entrepreneurs, all of whom share a common challenge: a gap between the value of what they do and how it is understood by the outside world. Riki closes that gap. Her process is equal parts investigation and intuition, uncovering the questions organizations have stopped asking themselves and building the visual and verbal systems that make the answers impossible to ignore.


The depth of her skill is matched by the breadth of her fluency. She has designed across complex linguistic and cultural systems, including projects that honour the integrity of French and Indigenous syllabics, earned recognition in the LogoLounge Master Library and LogoLounge Book 15, and developed identities that have shaped how institutions and communities present themselves. Her work does not follow trends. It creates the conditions for something more enduring: recognition, resonance, and trust.


At Elixr Creative, Riki is The Formulator. She distills who you are into what people see, ensuring your brand not only looks the part, but reflects the value behind it

Riki Silzer

Riki has spent more than three decades doing something deceptively rare: making organizations legible. Not simply visually compelling, but genuinely clear, so the right people can immediately understand who you are, what you stand for, and why it matters. As a strategic brand identity and communications specialist, she brings visual language, narrative, and organizational truth together, translating complexity into a signal that lands.


Her career spans government departments, arts and cultural institutions, established companies, and mission-driven entrepreneurs, all of whom share a common challenge: a gap between the value of what they do and how it is understood by the outside world. Riki closes that gap. Her process is equal parts investigation and intuition, uncovering the questions organizations have stopped asking themselves and building the visual and verbal systems that make the answers impossible to ignore.


The depth of her skill is matched by the breadth of her fluency. She has designed across complex linguistic and cultural systems, including projects that honour the integrity of French and Indigenous syllabics, earned recognition in the LogoLounge Master Library and LogoLounge Book 15, and developed identities that have shaped how institutions and communities present themselves. Her work does not follow trends. It creates the conditions for something more enduring: recognition, resonance, and trust.


At Elixr Creative, Riki is The Formulator. She distills who you are into what people see, ensuring your brand not only looks the part, but reflects the value behind it.

The organizations we work with are already credible. They're currently moving into a higher order of visibility, influence, and impact, and they need everything about how they show up to carry that.

Tendai Mashayamombe

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Tendai has a natural ability to move ideas forward. With more than 13 years of experience spanning business development, client growth, stakeholder relations, and organizational strategy, she has built a career on understanding what drives people, what builds trust, and what creates the conditions for lasting progress. Her clients have included enterprise-scale organizations across multiple sectors and international markets, and her instinct for identifying opportunity and turning it into traction is what sets her apart.


Tendai combines a people-first approach with a clear focus on results. She understands that even the strongest plans depend on the right conversations to bring them to life, and she has spent her career navigating those conversations with precision, warmth, and a grounded sense of what is genuinely possible. Whether she is opening new markets, aligning stakeholders around a shared vision, or advising organizations on their next stage of growth, she brings both analytical rigor and the human intelligence that complex environments demand.


Her international reach is matched by a practical understanding of what organizations truly need, not simply to expand, but to move in the right direction, with the right partners, toward results that strengthen over time. She does not chase momentum. She architects it, deliberately, relationally, and with genuine strategic edge.


At Elixr Creative, Tendai is The Catalyst. She is the force that turns strategy into motion, relationships into results, and potential into measurable, lasting impact

Tendai Mashayamombe

Tendai has a natural ability to move ideas forward. With more than 13 years of experience spanning business development, client growth, stakeholder relations, and organizational strategy, she has built a career on understanding what drives people, what builds trust, and what creates the conditions for lasting progress. Her clients have included enterprise-scale organizations across multiple sectors and international markets, and her instinct for identifying opportunity and turning it into traction is what sets her apart.


Tendai combines a people-first approach with a clear focus on results. She understands that even the strongest plans depend on the right conversations to bring them to life, and she has spent her career navigating those conversations with precision, warmth, and a grounded sense of what is genuinely possible. Whether she is opening new markets, aligning stakeholders around a shared vision, or advising organizations on their next stage of growth, she brings both analytical rigor and the human intelligence that complex environments demand.


Her international reach is matched by a practical understanding of what organizations truly need, not simply to expand, but to move in the right direction, with the right partners, toward results that strengthen over time. She does not chase momentum. She architects it, deliberately, relationally, and with genuine strategic edge.


At Elixr Creative, Tendai is The Catalyst. She is the force that turns strategy into motion, relationships into results, and potential into measurable, lasting impact.

The Story behind Elixr Creative…

The Story behind Elixr Creative…

Some things take time to become what they were always meant to be.


Tricia and Riki have known each other since the early 2000s, two decades of watching each other work, recognizing something complementary, and knowing that one day the conditions would be right to build something together. They tried once around 2020, but the timing wasn't right. So they waited, trusted the process, and kept doing the work they each do best.


Then Tendai entered the picture.


Tendai and Tricia built an amazing bond working together within senior government environments, with the kind of trust that only comes from navigating complex, high-stakes work side by side. When Tricia saw what Tendai contributed – strategic clarity, human-centered thinking, and an instinct for what organizations need before they know they need it, she knew. This was the missing piece. The thing that made Elixr Creative not just possible, but inevitable.


A triad of minds. A combined vision more than two decades in the making. Three disciplines that do something none of them could do alone.


We exist because the strongest organizations deserve to be understood as clearly as the value they create. Because the gap between internal excellence and external perception is always closable. And because sometimes the most important things take exactly as long as they need to.


That is the Elixr formula. That is why we are here.

We start with where you are and grow from there.

You've met the team. Now let's talk about you.

If something we've said is resonating, we'd love to hear what you're working on.

It all starts with a conversation.