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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.

Speaking Across Worlds: Cross-Cultural Communication Isn’t Just Translation — It’s Transformation

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.

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Broken trust breaks brands

Broken trust breaks brands

First it was shrinkflation. Then price fixing. Record profits. Bloated bonuses. The headlines kept coming — often more than once. Parliamentary hearings turned into political theatre. Then came the latest: meat price gouging.

This grocery story? It’s a case study in how trust erodes — slowly, then all at once. And then it’s gone.

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Crisis-Proof Your Reputation

Crisis-Proof Your Reputation

When a crisis hits, it’s already too late to start building trust.

Reputation protection isn’t just about reaction time — it’s about readiness. Smart organizations don’t wait for something to go wrong to think about how they’ll respond. They put the pieces in place early: strong values, clear responsibilities, rehearsed scenarios and a leadership culture that knows when to act and when to speak.

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Building Resilience: Preparing for the Uncomfortable

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.

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Prosperity by design: Canadian industrial future

Prosperity by design: Canadian industrial future

If Canada were run like a business, have you ever contemplated what it would look like and how it would grow over time? We have.

It’s something we’ve contemplated for years as we’ve worked in different sectors. And with all the attention now focused on potential tariffs coming from the U.S., it ’s a timely question to revisit. See what we point to for success in the future.

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