Private workshops for critical decisions
Facilitated working sessions to test assumptions, compare scenarios, and clarify the choices facing your team.
Executive teams
Leaders preparing capital allocation, technology, or market-entry decisions.
Boards and committees
Directors working through risk, resilience, and long-term institutional direction.
Investors and strategy teams
Teams testing exposure to macro pressure, AI infrastructure, and market structure.
Policy and civic leaders
Public-sector teams assessing institutional capacity, industrial policy, and strategic competition.
Built around the decision confronting your team
Each workshop starts with the decision, the participants, and the time horizon. We identify the evidence that could change the team’s assessment.
A useful workshop leaves the team with tested assumptions, vetted options, and a shared understanding.
Working SessionWorkshop preparation and facilitationPrivate intelligence workshops
Each workshop is built around the decision, audience, time horizon, and signals that matter.
Capital allocation under uncertainty
Investment and balance-sheet decisions when the signals are incomplete.
Discuss this topicAI infrastructure, compute, and energy
How compute capacity, energy supply, and investment requirements shape competitive advantage.
Discuss this topicIndustrial policy and strategic competition
How states and firms compete for durable advantage.
Discuss this topicMarket structure and execution risk
How market rules and execution barriers affect a strategy’s viability.
Discuss this topicState capacity and institutional bottlenecks
How permitting and coordination constraints limit delivery.
Discuss this topicRisk signals, resilience, and watch points
What to watch as risks start to reprice across markets.
Discuss this topicWorking sessions built around a decision
Workshops are built for teams that need to test assumptions, work through differences, and leave with a shared decision framework.
Half-day or full-day session
Preparation with the sponsor, a tailored briefing, facilitated scenario or assumption mapping, and a concise summary memo.
Team alignment before action
Strategy offsites, board risk sessions, investment committee preparation, market-entry debates, and policy or resilience planning.
Quoted after design
Pricing depends on session length, participant count, preparation depth, travel, and whether post-session written work is required.
From chaos to clarity
The session tests how changing conditions affect your options, risks, and next steps.
Define the question
Clarify the audience, the context, and the decision environment the workshop has to serve.
Build the case
Translate research into a clear argument with mechanisms, trade-offs, and implications.
Identify next steps
Give the team a sharper way to interpret change and act under uncertainty.
Choose your workshop format
Scenario workshop
Test assumptions and map the outcomes under alternative scenarios.
Request thisExecutive working session
Build a shared assessment of the evidence and the choices ahead.
Request thisBoard workshop
Assess the principal risks and the conditions that would change the board’s judgment.
Request thisPrivate briefing workshop
Review the evidence and identify the developments your team should monitor.
Request thisBrendan Hart
economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor
FounderBrendan Hart is an economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor with two decades of experience building organizations and leading transformation across technology, defense, human capital, and government. His work connects economic analysis with the decisions leaders face when allocating capital, building institutional capacity, and setting strategy under uncertainty.
Through his writing, teaching, and advisory work, Hart examines how markets, institutions, technology, and capital shape economic power. He translates structural change into economic intelligence: where power is accumulating, what drives its concentration, and how it affects investment, policy, and competition. His perspective combines an economist’s focus on incentives, constraints, and institutions with an entrepreneur’s understanding of what it takes to build and execute.
Hart began his career as a team leader in the United States Marine Corps’ premier antiterrorism unit before co-founding BMNT and SVA. His experience across government and business informs his approach to turning strategic ambition into organizational capability.
He holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Build the workshop your team needs
Tell us the decision, who will participate, your preferred timing, and the question to resolve.