Strong governance today. Navigating tomorrow.

We advise boards, founders, and not-for-profits on governance, compliance, and corporate secretarial work that keeps organisations structured, compliant, and decision-ready.

100+ Governance Touchpoints Boards, committees, policies, and compliance systems
Canada · UK · Asia Cross-Border Perspective Multi-jurisdictional governance experience
End-to-End Full Coverage From frameworks to filings and board operations
Execution-Focused Practical, Not Theoretical Governance that works in practice, not just on paper
A practice built on
Chartered Governance Professionals Multi-jurisdictional advisory Public · Private · Non-profit Subsidiary boards
What we do

Integrated governance. One connected system.

We are a team of chartered governance professionals with executive-level experience across listed corporations, private companies, foreign subsidiaries, and not-for-profits. We work alongside boards and executives to get to the root of the issue, not just the symptom, and put the structure, process, and oversight in place that holds up under scrutiny.

Strategy, board operations, secretarial, and cross-border. Handled as one practice, not four.
Strategy & Oversight

Governance Advisory

Chartered governance professionals working with boards and executives at the points where governance is being tested. We diagnose what is actually broken underneath the symptom, fix the structure, and leave you with a framework that holds the next time scrutiny arrives.

  • Governance framework & policy architecture
  • Board effectiveness reviews
  • Risk oversight & compliance alignment
  • Regulatory readiness across jurisdictions
  • Strategic governance roadmaps

Board Excellence

Practical, hands-on work to lift the standard at which your board operates without rebuilding from scratch.

  • Director onboarding & continuing education
  • Board & committee effectiveness evaluations
  • Charter, mandate & policy refresh
  • Board governance audits & accreditation readiness
  • Chair & CEO advisory
Execution & Infrastructure

Corporate Secretarial

The reliable backbone work that keeps your organization compliant, organized, and audit-ready, whether outsourced or supported.

  • Minute books & statutory registers
  • Annual filings & resolutions
  • Entity management support
  • Meeting & resolution drafting
  • Records management systems

Cross-Border Governance

Foreign-parent subsidiaries face a unique challenge: head office speaks one regulatory language, the local jurisdiction speaks another. We bridge both.

  • Subsidiary governance frameworks
  • Intercompany agreements & delegated authority
  • Cross-border data & privacy governance
  • Director & officer obligations
  • Parent-subsidiary reporting & escalation design
Specialised practices

Board minute-taking, drafted by governance professionals.

Defensible minutes from Chartered Governance Professionals who understand procedure, motion language, and what makes a record hold up under scrutiny. Two dedicated practices, 48-hour turnaround.

The 360 Approach

Governance isn't a document. It's a system.

We treat governance as four connected dimensions. Diagnose one in isolation and you miss where the real risk lives. Every engagement, regardless of scope, walks through all four.

01

Structure

Board composition, committee mandates, charters, and delegation of authority: the architecture that decides who is accountable for what.

02

Process

Meeting discipline, minute-taking, resolutions, and records integrity: the operational rhythm that turns intent into evidence.

03

People

Director onboarding, effectiveness reviews, succession, and continuing education: the human capital that determines whether the system actually works.

04

Compliance

Regulatory alignment, statutory filings, disclosure, and risk oversight: the obligations that protect the organization and its directors.

Who we serve

We work where governance matters most.

Governance looks different at every stage and in every sector. Pick where you fit, and the section adapts to show you what we'd actually be talking about.

Volunteer boards doing serious work without enterprise tools or enterprise budgets.

Charities and not-for-profits carry the same fiduciary weight as listed companies, often with a fraction of the resources. We build governance that respects the volunteer reality and meets the standards funders, regulators, and accreditation bodies expect.

What we hear most

  • "Our minute book is held together with goodwill and a Google Drive folder."
  • "We're working toward Imagine Canada accreditation and don't know where to start."
  • "Our chair is excellent, but they're stepping down in 18 months."
Where we'd start

Practices most relevant to your sector

Board Excellence
Onboarding, charter refresh, accreditation readiness.
Corporate Secretarial
Minute books, ONCA/CNCA filings, records you can rely on.
Governance Advisory
Frameworks and policies built for volunteer boards.
End-to-end advisory, gap analysis, policy support, and application readiness across all 73 Imagine Canada Standards.
Explore Imagine Canada support
Past the kitchen-table stage. Not yet at the IPO stage. The middle is where governance decides whether you make it.

Growth-stage private companies are at the most consequential governance moment in their lifecycle. Done well, governance becomes a quiet competitive advantage in financing, hiring, and exit. Done poorly, it becomes the reason a deal falls apart in diligence.

What we hear most

  • "We're raising a round and counsel just asked for our minute book."
  • "Our investors want a real board, not just our friends and our lawyer."
  • "We're growing fast and our founder-led decisions aren't scaling."
Where we'd start

Practices most relevant to your sector

Governance Advisory
Framework that scales with the round you're raising next.
Corporate Secretarial
Minute book and records that hold up in due diligence.
Board Excellence
Standing up a real board with independents, charters, and cadence.
Your parent company speaks one regulatory language. The local jurisdiction speaks another. We speak both.

Foreign-parent subsidiaries live between two regulatory systems. Most governance advisors understand one. Our chartered qualifications across the UK, Canada, and India let us bridge both, translating local obligations for head office and head-office expectations for the local board.

What we hear most

  • "Head office wants quarterly reporting, but it doesn't fit local governance norms."
  • "Our local directors aren't sure what they're personally liable for."
  • "We have intercompany agreements no one has updated in five years."
Where we'd start

Practices most relevant to your sector

Cross-Border Governance
Frameworks that translate between parent and local board.
Governance Advisory
Director liability, delegated authority, escalation design.
Corporate Secretarial
Statutory upkeep across jurisdictions, without surprises.
Where governance isn't optional and the cost of getting it wrong is on the front page.

Credit unions, listed entities, and regulated organizations operate under continuous scrutiny from regulators, members, auditors, and the public. We bring the discipline and depth these boards need, without the enterprise overhead of a Big Four engagement.

What we hear most

  • "Our regulator just flagged our board reporting cadence."
  • "Our audit committee charter hasn't been touched since 2019."
  • "We need a real governance evaluation, not a checkbox exercise."
Where we'd start

Practices most relevant to your sector

Governance Advisory
Regulatory readiness, risk oversight, disclosure discipline.
Board Excellence
Real evaluations with action plans, not checkbox exercises.
Corporate Secretarial
Charter refreshes, board reporting cadence, audit-ready records.
Governance 360 Health CheckTM

See where your governance really stands in ninety seconds.

Ten focused questions across structure, process, people, compliance, and oversight & risk. Instant on-screen score and tier. Detailed report on request.

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Meet the practice

An introduction to how we work.

A short walkthrough of what we believe about modern governance, who we're built for, and what working with us actually looks like, in plain language and without jargon.

The podcast

Governance, plainly spoken.

Honest conversations about how organizations actually govern themselves: what works, what doesn't, and what's coming next. Hosted by Arvind Kumar and Sapna Gupta.

New episodes drop regularly. We talk to chairs, founders, regulators, and the people doing the unglamorous work of keeping organizations honest.

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The Reading Room

Long-form thinking on governance, plainly written.

Articles, analyses, and the occasional opinion piece on board behaviour, oversight, and the unglamorous discipline of running organizations well.

3 articles · updated regularly
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Article · Coming soon

Minute books matter more than founders think: the one mistake we see most often.

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Director independence: what the term really means and why most boards get it wrong.

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Conflict-of-interest registers: the quiet document that decides whether your board survives a crisis.

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The CEO evaluation no one wants to do: a practical framework that takes ninety minutes a year.

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Get in touch

Start with a conversation.

Tell us where your board, your organization, or your governance system is right now. We'll tell you what we think honestly, including whether or not we're the right fit.