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.
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.
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.
Resource Development on Indigenous Terms
Indigenous consent isn’t a courtesy—it’s a strategic necessity. Learn how co-governance is reshaping Canada’s resource development landscape.
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.
We’ve evolved. Explore the new CORE.
CORE Strategic has rebranded with a bold new identity, reaffirming its commitment to high-impact advisory work in Risk + Response and Strategic Impact. Discover what’s changed — and what hasn’t.
Building Resilience: Preparing for the Uncomfortable
Do you want someone else to control your fate? Or do you want the ability to prepare for (and take advantage of) the storms, challenges and opportunities? If you want others to control you, this edition of #COREInsights won’t be for you. But if you want to take control of how you navigate challenging times, then our focus on resiliency may be just want you need to hear . Especially during all the global turmoil we’re living through.
Resilience is even more important today. learn how organizations can build resilience into the way they work.