Nine practices. Three families.
Each engagement is scoped to the situation in front of us. The team, the timeline, and the deliverables are shaped by what the business needs — never sold from a catalogue.
One senior partner per engagementScoped to the situationPriced to the workHanded back when your team is ready
Executive & Operational Leadership
Senior partners placed in your business with the authority to make the call — not only advise on it.
Fractional C-Suite
Embedded operators. Accountable for outcomes.
Fractional COO, CTO, CRO, or Managing Director — senior operators embedded in your team, accountable for outcomes. Start timing confirmed in the written scope.
Strategy & Execution
Advice meets action. Until it sticks.
Strategy & execution consulting in Canada — embedded COO, CTO, or MD doing the work, not just advising. One written scope, one accountable firm.
People & Culture
The full people function, from compliance and investigations through culture, leadership, and the harder conversations.
Outsourced HR
Enterprise-grade HR. Without the fixed cost.
Outsourced HR for mid-market Canadian companies — compliance, ER, talent, and culture run end-to-end by a named senior lead. Onboarding timing confirmed in the written scope.
HR Services
Compliance. Culture. Capacity.
HR services for Ontario employers — workplace investigations, culture transformation, and outsourced HR. Senior practitioners, one-business-day triage on active issues.
Workplace Investigations
Impartial. Rigorous. Documented.
Independent, external workplace investigations — impartial, methodical, and documented. When internal HR cannot credibly investigate a matter, we run it end to end, from conflict check and written scope to the final report.
Culture Transformation
The program, not the report.
Culture transformation programs in Canada — we lead the work, coach leaders weekly, and hold accountability until the new culture is embedded. Not a report.
Leadership Development
Stronger leaders. At every level.
Leadership development for Canadian organizations — executive coaching, senior cohorts, and emerging-leader pipelines. A system, not a training catalog.
Growth & Transition
Long-form advisory through the inflection points — Canadian market entry, scale-up, succession, and the professionalization that follows. Multi-year engagements, embedded alongside the leadership carrying the business through.
Canadian Market Entry
Enter. Operate. Scale.
Canadian market entry consulting — full lifecycle from assessment and entity setup through GTM and scaling. One team, one accountability, not three vendors.
Family Business Advisory
Professionalize. Without losing what built it.
Family business advisory in Canada — professionalize operations, plan succession, and scale for the next generation without losing what built the business.
Nine practices is not nine things we sell. It's nine directions the work can take once we understand what the business needs. The conversation always starts the same way — we listen, we scope to the situation, and we stay until your team is ready to carry it forward.
One conversation before anything else.
Every engagement starts with a call. No deck, no pitch — a thirty-minute conversation to understand what's actually going on. If we're the right fit, we'll put a proposal in front of you within the week.
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Conversation
A thirty-minute call with a principal to understand the situation. No pitch, no deck — we listen first, and if the fit is wrong we say so.
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Scoping
A written proposal built for your situation — the partner who will lead the work, the timeline the business can absorb, and the deliverables that actually matter. Priced to the scope, not to a rate card.
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Partners placed
Senior principals in the room, on your timeline, for as long as the situation requires. Weekly working cadence, in-the-business accountability, and the kind of judgment you can only exercise from inside.