Orienteering map of the Ulukhaktok bluffs, showing the plateau, cliff ring and Queens Bay
The Ulukhaktok bluffs, in orienteering contour lines

Shaping your
direction.

People, governance, strategy, and delivery, held on one compass by leaders who've run the room.

28
Years leading HR, governance & people strategy
35
Years delivering capital & infrastructure projects
$9M
Largest single project delivered on budget
The bluffs at Ulukhaktok, Inuvialuit Settlement RegionThe Ulukhaktok bluffs, in real life
The record
28
Years leading HR, governance & people strategy inside a provincial legislature and Crown corporations
35
Years delivering roads, civil infrastructure & capital projects
$9M
Largest single project delivered on time and on the number
100% Indigenous-owned Serving institutions across Canada
Why one firm

Everything pointed the same way.

People, governance, strategy, delivery, and applied AI, all held by one team and pointed the same way. North is wherever you're trying to get to, and every part of the work lines up behind it. One plan, one set of tools, one group accountable for landing it.

PeopleGovernanceStrategyDeliveryApplied AI
▲  North is where you're headed

The plan, the tools, and the execution stay in one hand, so momentum carries straight through from start to finish.

What we do

Six ways to move. One direction.

Fold, Orient, Route, Contact written on a hand holding a compass
Four moves get inked on the hand before every race. Fold the map, orient it, pick the route, and stay in contact with the map so you always know exactly where you are. An engagement runs the same way.
How an engagement moves

Nothing hidden. Four stages.

Something concrete in your hands at the end of each one.

01

Listen

The situation, in your words.

02

Map the terrain

What's really going on, and why.

03

Chart the route

A plan with owners and dates.

04

Walk it with you

Delivery, not just advice.

Two practices, one firm

People and delivery, under one roof.

Ellice Edey
The people practice · Led by Ellice

People, governance & the systems around them

28 years across the public and private sector. Her HR work runs from a provincial legislature and Crown corporations to oil and gas, transportation, tech, and media; her governance work spans non-profit and for-profit boards in higher education, aviation, and Indigenous economic development.

People strategyGovernanceInvestigationsApplied AI
Larry Squire on-site at a civil project
The delivery practice · Led by Larry

Projects delivered, start to finish

35 years on capital projects up to $9M: Larry estimates the work, awards the trades, runs the site, and can run the whole operation as a fractional general manager.

Project deliveryOwner's repFractional GM
Governance, from the inside

We advise on boards because we sit on them.

Ellice served on the board of a Canadian airline. Real governance judgment, tested in the room, not the textbook.

How we help with governance →
Ellice on-site at a Canadian airline
A road into a northern community
Where we work

From the rooms where it's decided to the ground where it's done.

Ulukhaktok · Inuvialuit Settlement Region · Northwest Territories
Ellice speaking at a podium
On the stage

She makes the room think.

Keynotes and facilitation that move a crowd the way the right question moves a boardroom.

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Free & practical

Take something useful.

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Ellice at the finish of an orienteering course, smiling, holding her placement ribbonEvery course, finished
What we work by

Four values. No poster required.

Say it plainly.

No jargon, no spin. You always know where things really stand, including the hard parts, early enough to do something about it.

Finish the course.

Projects go sideways. Scope shifts, budgets tighten, people leave partway. We adjust the route and get you there anyway.

Respect is practice.

Not a statement on a wall. It shows up in who gets hired, how a board is heard, and how an investigation is run.

Leave the map behind.

The best consultants make themselves unnecessary. We build your people, your controls, and your bench, so it holds after we go.

Let's find your direction.

Tell us where you're stuck. We'll tell you if we can help.