Private workshops for critical decisions
Facilitated working sessions to test assumptions, compare scenarios, and clarify the choices facing 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.
- Scenario workshopTest assumptions and map the outcomes under alternative scenarios.
- Executive working sessionBuild a shared assessment of the evidence and the choices ahead.
- Board workshopAssess the principal risks and the conditions that would change the board’s judgment.
- Private briefing workshopReview the evidence and identify the developments your team should monitor.
Who we partner with
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.
How it works
A useful workshop leaves the team with tested assumptions, vetted options, and a shared understanding.
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.
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Where we focus
Capital allocation under uncertainty
Investment and balance-sheet decisions when the signals are incomplete.AI infrastructure, compute, and energy
How compute capacity, energy supply, and investment requirements shape competitive advantage.Industrial policy and strategic competition
How states and firms compete for durable advantage.Market structure and execution risk
How market rules and execution barriers affect a strategy’s viability.State capacity and institutional bottlenecks
How permitting and coordination constraints limit delivery.Risk signals, resilience, and watch points
What to watch as risks start to reprice across markets.
Brendan Hart
economist and entrepreneur
FounderBrendan Hart is an economist and entrepreneur who studies how economic power is created, compounded, and constrained. He has spent two decades building teams and organizations across industry and government.
As publisher of The Power Curve, Hart analyzes strategic competition, economic infrastructure, and institutional resilience for leaders who run organizations, develop policy, and allocate capital. His work combines an economist’s discipline about incentives and constraints with an operator’s experience founding ventures in defense, technology, and workforce development.
Hart served as a team leader in the U.S. Marine Corps Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team before co-founding BMNT, a defense innovation accelerator that created a commercial bridge between Silicon Valley and Washington. BMNT helped emerging technology companies win government funding, including companies later acquired by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. He also co-founded Student Veterans of America, which has served more than 750,000 members across 1,500 chapters since founding and helped secure the passage and implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
Hart participates in global forums such as the Milken Institute Global Conference and the Aspen Security Forum. He was a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and a member of the Aspen Institute’s Society of Fellows. His work has been featured by ABC News, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and U.S. News & World Report.
Hart 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.