Strategic Planning and Business Design

Enabling clarity and smart choices for government teams.

I help public sector teams answer key questions:

  • What matters most right now?
  • What must we actually deliver?
  • How do we work together more effectively?
  • What needs to change — and how?

Whether the project is big or small, I bring steady experience to help you move forward.

What I offer

My planning and design work typically helps clients with:

  • Strategic and business planning — making sure teams are aligned and realistic
  • Organizational design — rethinking roles, functions, structures and processes
  • Governance and decision-making — setting up clear paths for direction and oversight
  • Resource planning and priority-setting — deciding what to deliver, and what to pause
  • Workforce and team design — making sure people and roles fit your purpose

I shape each project to fit your needs, context and timelines. I can:

  • Facilitate planning and design sessions and products
  • Develop tools and templates to guide the work
  • Conduct discreet one-on-one consultations and summarize insights
  • Provide follow-up coaching or implementation support

I help your team come to implementable decisions. Then I help you move from intent to action.

Recent projects

  • 2025 – Financial Consumer Agency of Canada – Advised on updating the agency’s hybrid workplace model, talent management approach for executives and workforce adjustment directive
  • 2025 – ESDC – Led a root cause analysis of service issues for a major federal benefits program – helping the team identify risks, fix processes, and prevent future errors
  • 2024 – Canada Water Agency – Supported executives as they built the new organization: helping to design team roles and governance, and helping to structure internal services
  • 2023 – Shared Services Canada – Developed an action plan to implement a full workforce strategy and HR function redesign for a 400-person digital team
  • 2022 – Canadian Human Rights Commission – Reviewed the commission’s communications function and proposed improvements to reflect growing demands and expectations from senior leadership

“François facilitated a series of workshops over five days focused on the Canada Pension Plan. He was highly professional, respected timelines, and ensured the sessions ran smoothly and efficiently. It was a pleasure working with him.” – 2025

“Francois helped us build an effective and accountable corporate governance structure. He also supported the creation of our intranet, and its use as an organizational development and internal communications tool. Whatever the project, Francois’s advice was thoughtful, well-researched, and clearly articulated.” – 2024

“It was a pleasure working with you. (Our workforce management practices) have really made giant strides in the last year. We now have to maintain them.” – 2023

Price and how to get started

Let’s start with a free consultation to discuss how I can help. I can then develop a costed proposal for your review.

I can be hired through ProServices.

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