Confidant Consulting

Vision and Strategy
I can help you develop or update your department's vision and strategy statements, with review, facilitated sessions, and mapping against business objectives; and I can help you develop processes so that vision and strategy inform and influence your annual planning cycle.
Cyber Security
Drawing on 30+ years' experience in IT security, including nearly 20 in Security and Intelligence agencies, I can help assess your security needs and plan investments.
Facilitated sessions can help you develop business plans, and review reporting and communication documents.
Project Risk Analysis can help select among different project approaches, and can help identify and quantify the value of mitigation strategies for identified risks.
An experienced public speaker, I will present findings on your behalf, can coach presentation skills to staff, and am available for keynote and other speaking engagements.
I have found mentoring to be a critical component of development, and have helped organizations set up formal and informal mentoring programs.
Metrics are a critical component of performance management programs. Selecting what to measure, and how to interpret the data, can be a challenge. I'll be glad to help you with this.
Business Process Mapping
An independent viewer can be valuable in capturing, documenting, and challenging your business architecture, prior to process improvement exercises or IT architecture development.

Latest Blog Posts

Things I Learned From Being a Motorcycle Instructor
This post was originally published internally at a previous employer, as part of a series on learning to coach and provide feedback to employees. Introduction I mentioned in an earlier blog post that one of my interests was motorcycling. In fact I was a volunteer instructor with the Ottawa Safety Council’s motorcycle rider course for… Continue reading Things I Learned From Being a Motorcycle Instructor
Making Better Presentations
I’ve been working on a document for the last twenty years, consolidating my notes from presentations that I thought were especially good or bad into a set of advice on presenting well. This has become my own approach to making presentations, and it works well for me. I’m making the document available publicly here, in… Continue reading Making Better Presentations
Develop a reliable estimate during an elevator ride? Yes you can.
“Elevator Speeches” are an important tool in management. By chance, you find yourself in an elevator with a senior decision maker for 30 seconds. Can you do something useful with that time? You should have an “elevator speech” ready, or be capable of generating one instantly, for several topics, such as: Who are you? What… Continue reading Develop a reliable estimate during an elevator ride? Yes you can.
Lessons from Star Trek
At my last few employers I used to blog regularly and encourage other executives to blog. I will be reproducing slightly modified versions of some of those blog posts here. This one was intended to be a little “tongue-in-cheek” because I had a bit of a reputation as a nerd. It discusses leadership lessons we… Continue reading Lessons from Star Trek
Depth vs Breadth
At my last few employers I used to blog regularly and encourage other executives to blog. I will be reproducing slightly modified versions of some of those blog posts here. This one, on the subject of when and how to expand skills and knowledge, was first published in early 2019. Depth vs Breadth? In this… Continue reading Depth vs Breadth