Assess.
Every engagement opens with the questions others skip. What is actually being decided here? What are the strategic and financial implications of an incorrect decision? The first week is for assessing: discovery and alignment.
Wisdom for solving complex problems
We provide counsel and insight to governments, corporations and boards to solve critical issues.
$4.2bnProgram value under advisory
25+Years in the work
3Regions, permanently staffed
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What we do
Four practices. One discipline.
We advise, deliver, and staff. The quality of a decision is set before it is made, and we build the projects and the people that follow from decisions properly weighed.
First the assess. Then the move.
Selah is the old notation for a held silence, the beat taken before anything decisive. It is also our method.
Weigh.
Evidence over instinct. We research, model and pressure-test until the strategic options and decision tradeoffs are clear enough to defend in any boardroom.
Move.
A clear recommendation. A named owner. A plan that survives contact with reality. We commit in writing, and we stay until we see sustained outcomes.
The record
We take on fewer engagements than any comparable firm. Deliberately.
$4.2bn
Program value under advisory
26
Countries delivered in
94%
Placements retained at three years
The CPTF Baseline Funding Scorecard.
Free for transit leaders. Fifteen questions, five minutes. A candid read on where Canada Public Transit Fund money slips through, and what to tighten before it does.
Insights
What the work taught us.
Notes from engagements that closed, appointments that held, and portfolios that stayed on their forecast. Written for the people accountable for the outcome.
Begin with a conversation.
No deck, no pitch. Thirty minutes with a partner who has sat where you sit, on the problem you are actually carrying.