Peter Tonge Consulting is your partner in achieving accessibility and inclusion excellence. We bring together our friends in the deaf and disability community to offer a comprehensive range of services, from accessibility and equity audits that go beyond the basics to tailored policy development, and gaps and barrier identification with strategic actioning. We customize training programs and we build relationships for yearly compliance reporting.
Our firm is owned and operated by disabled queer folks, and we’re here to help your organization meet and exceed accessibility and inclusion standards while building a culture of belonging and cooperation. Our mission is to move forward together.
Peter Tonge brings a broad range of experience to his work. With university degrees in data analysis and computer science, Peter worked as a manager at Statistics Canada specializing in construction and international trade. A career in law followed. As a criminal defense attorney, Peter worked on thousands of cases, often representing clients with mental health and addiction issues.
Drawing on his legal career and day-to-day experience as a wheelchair user, Peter founded Peter Tonge Consulting in 2021. The organization works with clients to address disability issues such as accessibility, inclusion, community engagement, human rights and policy development.
In the community, he is a board member of the Cerebral Palsy Association of Manitoba and SCE Lifeworks A proud member of Rotary International Peter also contributes to numerous humanitarian projects, both locally and internationally. Peter stays fit and active as a wheelchair fencer and as a member of a local “murder ball” team.
Hayley Sinclair has lived coast to coast across Canada and is now working internationally, bringing a wide range of perspectives on legislation, regulation, and advocacy to her work. She serves as the Project Manager for Peter Tonge Consulting.
Hayley is best known for connecting professional wrestling events with civic politics, growing a small-town Pride festival from 2,500 attendees to 50,000 in one year, and providing end-of-life care to her father. These experiences are embedded in everything she does.
With a background in human resources and non-profit management, Hayley began her career at Vancouver Coastal Health, organizing hundreds of focus groups and small projects to build community with systemically under-served groups in health care. She later worked for a 24/7 emergency shelter in the heart of Winnipeg and with the Mariners Sport Centre in the remote town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.