Built by operators. Driven for impact.

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NorthGuide was built to fix a fundamental breakdown in consulting: big plans that sit on shelves and complex ideas that stall out in bureaucracy.

After decades leading companies through rapid scaling, navigating regulatory gridlock, and managing over $1B in strategic investments, our founders set out to build a street-smart firm with a faster, more practical edge.

NorthGuide Founders

Real-world experience on every file.

We bring experienced senior leaders directly to your file, people who have actually done the job before. They work alongside sharp, rising innovators who are close to what is changing right now. Together they clear the roadblocks and get ambitious ideas backed, built and running.

Working with NorthGuide was, in a word, awesome. They mobilized a sharp, experienced team based on our specific needs, asked questions we hadn't thought to ask, and delivered insights that genuinely changed how we think about our work and our way forward.

Gabriel Miller
President and CEO, Universities Canada

We called NorthGuide to help us solve one problem. Since then, they’ve uncovered opportunities we would have never imagined.

Jake Dockstator
Executive Director, Sioux Lookout Friendship Accord

Because of NorthGuide, we were able to accomplish more in two days than we could in two years.

Michelle Simms
President & CEO, Genesis

NorthGuide's tenacity and ability to ‘get stuff done’ is absolutely amazing!

Sue Paish
CEO, Digital Supercluster, 2022

I was impressed with the team that NorthGuide assembled for our project—literally bringing senior leaders in the industry to our file overnight.

Chuck Maillet
VP, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Your creative solutions, willingness to jump where needed, relationships in business and government, and perhaps most importantly, work as an agitator challenging thinking and people around the table has been invaluable. Thank you.

Stephen Lucas
Health Canada

NorthGuide is helping us see possibilities we hadn't considered. For a university with Dalhousie's scope and ambition, that kind of informed and focused outside perspective is rare and genuinely valuable.

Dr. Kim Brooks
President, Dalhousie University