Advisory Services
Advisory Services
We help clients ask the right questions, get evidence-based answers and identify clear pathways to successful outcomes. Whether you're tackling a new policy initiative, refining a legislative framework, navigating a complex organizational change, or have been impacted by threat actors and need response strategies, we offer critical insight grounded in rigorous research and decades of experience. We help you identity bias, root out groupthink, and go beyond simplistic solutions to achieve your objectives and meaningful change.
Overview
We provide frank advice about how you should make your case and position yourself for success. We help you avoid costly dead ends and fruitless endeavours. From landscape mapping to red teaming and pitch development, we untangle the webs that surround national security decisions. We know Canadian government and will steer you in the right direction.
Our experience in designing new agencies, building public-private partnerships, and restructuring complex mandates means we’re not afraid to dismantle the status quo when it no longer serves. In a time of global volatility and institutional flux, our insight helps public and private sector leaders build resilient, forward-looking organizations.
We offer
- Challenge Function & Red Teaming: We test your assumptions and proposals. We identify your vulnerabilities and weaknesses and provide effective ways to address them.
- Mandate Visioning & Organizational Design: We’ve reengineered legacy institutions, designed and implemented new divisions and units, and spearheaded new policy initiatives. We help define purpose, structure, and performance metrics for high-impact work.
- Process Navigation & Internal Strategy: We understand the machinery of government and how decisions are made. We guide clients through policy development, departmental consultations, and approval bodies.
- Pitch Development & Framing: Even the best ideas need a strong narrative to succeed. We help you align your message with the values, interests, and timelines of your audience, be they ministers and their staff, senior officials or military officers, or parliamentarians and voters.
- Public-Private Partnership: We know how to build trust between the private and public sectors. Whether you’re entering a partnership or strengthening an existing one, we help you understand how the other side thinks.