CTR clients seek to lead not play catch-up.

They include global corporations, public and private sector organizations, and start-ups and NFPs looking for innovative solutions and approaches that will propel them into the future.

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Success in Strategic Consulting & Innovation

PORTABLE ELECTRIC
Global Portable Power CleanTech

One of Canada’s first mobile power, ‘cleantech’ companies has repeatedly retained CTR, since launching in 2016, to develop and implement forward-thinking business and innovation strategies resulting in triple-digit growth and market expansion throughout North America. This included organizational design, business, foresight and marketing strategies, future opportunity mapping and action plans; investor pitches, executive and team coaching-mentoring and CXO advisory services.

LENDIFIED
Fintech Leader

A first mover in B2B lending, Lendified engaged CTR to help design, develop and launch the company and contribute to a strategic readiness plan for its fast growth future. This included: naming, marketing, future opportunity and systems mapping, and overseeing a branding agency on the creation of a digital marketing and eCommerce platform. Collaborated with the CEO to build a multi-disciplined team of senior data scientists finance and tech specialists – plus capacity-building delivery partners, customer acquisitions and the first year alone, activated over $10 Million in loan activities. Within six years of startup, the company was acquired by one of Canada’s leading financial technology organizations.

Success in Accelerated Solutions Discovery, Education And Mobilization

MAINSTREAM RENEWABLE POWER
A global offshore Solar and Wind Developer

The Canadian lead for Mainstream Renewable Power (MRP) hired ctr to develop and advise on implementing an integrated expansion strategy for the national market. MRP is a global pure play energy development company with a portfolio of clean, renewable power assets across Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific. We delivered collaborative action-driven strategic planning and solution discovery workshops, consulting services

and produced a how-to playbook to guide the client team on execution.

All work was successfully completed ahead of schedule to help accelerate the company’s readiness to further deliver renewable energy at scale outside of Europe.

Success in Leadership & Sustainability

AECON
A Canadian Infrastructure Development and Construction Leader

Reporting to the EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer, in 2020 we were engaged to evaluate and contribute strategic foresight and innovation insights to the working draft of AECON’s Inaugural 2020 Sustainability Report. Our mandate: review, evaluate, edit and add new evidenced content. Identify gaps, opportunities, articulate alignment with Canada’s Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Environmental and Social Governance standards, and AECON’s proven ‘go-to’ industry leadership, committed to advancing the sustainability and resiliency of business and society today and tomorrow.

ICT
Global Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainability

Engaged by the 2018 host, as a Foresight-sustainability advisor and speaker for the 4th International Conference. This in-person, experiential learning and thought leadership workshop, at the University of Toronto, was attended by a global group of senior ICT leaders and experts from businesses, institutions and governments in the Americas and Europe. Topic focus: “Thriving in an Age of Exponential Change - Roadmaps & Visions for Creating a Sustainable Society.”

Success in Communications & Stakeholder Engagement

VALE MINING
A global mining company

The North Atlantic General Manager of Vale Base Metals engaged CTR to cultivate a culture of innovation. To speed up the realization of envisioned results, we focused our initial innovation challenge not on the mining operations – but on the company’s worldwide energy use. Energy is more than an input in mining: it’s one of the industry’s biggest fixed costs, and it affects mine efficiency and safety. Increasingly, it’s also a reputational issue (and a major concern for the board of directors).

By focusing on this one seemingly side issue, our teams got straight to work on tangible, meaningful challenges. Before long, we had developed an internal energy innovation training and resource hub. a portfolio of energy conservation pilot projects, and an Energy Innovation Fund to finance and accelerate innovative solutions.

Using an integrated collaborative approach, all deliverables were iteratively completed on time resulting in several recurring benefits: $15 million of annualized energy cost savings in one site alone, engagement of over 30,000 internal and community stakeholders and delivery partnerships in key communities where Vale operated in the Americas and Europe.