Thirty minutes, no charge, no deck. You tell us where things stand, and you meet the advisor who would do the work. We ask the questions a board or an ED rarely gets asked.
A clear view of what to focus on first, and why. If we are not the right help, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
A board education day, a strategic plan, a 90-day engagement. Shaped to your organization, and you will know what it costs before we start.
Steady support as questions come up through the year, for the moments between the big projects.
Small organizations doing serious work. Women’s shelters, mental health organizations, employment and settlement agencies, community services, and the associations that hold sectors together.
Organizations where the executive director wears five hats, the board is volunteers doing their best, and the calibre of counsel large organizations take for granted has always been out of reach.
One part of our work reaches further. When an organization of any size needs to sit down with the community it affects, and wants to do it properly rather than as a formality, that is the same craft applied in a different room.
Every Candour advisor is senior. There is no junior tier, no associate learning on your file, and no handing off after the first meeting. The person in your first conversation is the person who does the work.
Between us: decades as executives reporting to boards through growth, scrutiny, and change. Board chairs who have hired and supported executive directors through the hardest stretches. Governance leads for province-wide member organizations. And time on the funder side, reading the reports organizations send in hope and fear.
Most advisors have sat in one of those seats. Knowing all three changes the advice.
Most of what we do is confidential by nature. The hard conversation. The board question a chair cannot raise out loud. The transition nobody wants public. A practice built on discretion should look like one.
We are also busy doing the work rather than performing it. You will not find us posting about client wins, because our clients would not want us to.
So the brand does the talking here, and the people arrive later. When you book a conversation, you are matched with the advisor whose experience fits your situation, and from that moment you have a name, a face, and a direct line.
One for a single director, one for a whole board, and one about the relationships outside your organization’s walls. Nothing to sign up for and nothing saved. Work through whichever fits before you book anything, and bring what it gives you to the first conversation.
You can only speak freely if you know it stays private. So it does. If we ever want to mention something from our work together, we ask you first, and we never use your name.