Analysis on risk, pressure, and decision-making across systems.
The CORE Series brings together analyses on risk, pressure, and decision-making across sectors. Each piece focuses on how issues emerge, how signals are missed or misread, and why outcomes are often shaped well before they’re publicly visible.
The goal is simple: surface patterns early, clarify what matters, and create space for better judgment before decisions are forced.
Cross-Sector Collaboration That Works
Collaboration between sectors is easy to announce — much harder to do well. Our latest COREseries breaks down the essentials that make partnerships succeed, with lessons from Indigenous-led initiatives and strategies to avoid common pitfalls.
Why Indigenous Consultation Isn’t Stakeholder Engagement
Indigenous Peoples aren’t just stakeholders in a project — they are rights holders with governance authority. Here’s why consultation is not engagement, and why the distinction matters.
Reputation Risk in Real Time
Reputation risk moves at digital speed. In today’s hyper-connected world, you don’t get second chances. Learn why rapid response, operational readiness, and narrative control are your strongest defenses.
When Oversight Becomes Overreach
Oversight protects trust — but when it crosses into overreach, it can paralyze decision-making, stifle innovation, and erode confidence. Here's how to spot when systems are suffocating their own purpose.
Speaking Across Worlds: Cross-Cultural Communication Isn’t Just Translation — It’s Transformation
In cross-cultural spaces, clarity isn't enough—respect is essential. This #COREseries explores why Indigenous communication begins with listening, not translation, and how true allyship means doing the work to understand lived experience on its own terms.
Huff and puff: Tariffs, trade, tough talk and territory
Bluster, bombast and bravado. We take a look at how leaders and businesses should build strategies and plans to respond to President Trump’s agenda. Hyperbole and fear are often used to grab attention and drive action. Fear, threats and danger provoke reactions — but too often, they lead to missteps or missed opportunities.
Find out ways to navigate disruption - including the #trumptariffs.