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Workshops

Private workshops for critical decisions

Facilitated working sessions to test assumptions, compare scenarios, and clarify the choices facing your team.

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Formats4 formats
  • 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 this is for

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.

The workshop

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.
Brendan Hart seated in conversation with another person beside a wall of windows.Working SessionWorkshop preparation and facilitation
Workshop topics

Private 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.

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AI infrastructure, compute, and energy

How compute capacity, energy supply, and investment requirements shape competitive advantage.

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Industrial policy and strategic competition

How states and firms compete for durable advantage.

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Market structure and execution risk

How market rules and execution barriers affect a strategy’s viability.

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State capacity and institutional bottlenecks

How permitting and coordination constraints limit delivery.

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Risk signals, resilience, and watch points

What to watch as risks start to reprice across markets.

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Scope and terms

Working 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.

Typical scope

Half-day or full-day session

Preparation with the sponsor, a tailored briefing, facilitated scenario or assumption mapping, and a concise summary memo.

Best use case

Team alignment before action

Strategy offsites, board risk sessions, investment committee preparation, market-entry debates, and policy or resilience planning.

Pricing

Quoted after design

Pricing depends on session length, participant count, preparation depth, travel, and whether post-session written work is required.

How it works

From chaos to clarity

The session tests how changing conditions affect your options, risks, and next steps.

01 / Question

Define the question

Clarify the audience, the context, and the decision environment the workshop has to serve.

02 / Frame

Build the case

Translate research into a clear argument with mechanisms, trade-offs, and implications.

03 / Signal

Identify next steps

Give the team a sharper way to interpret change and act under uncertainty.

Formats

Choose your workshop format

Format

Scenario workshop

Test assumptions and map the outcomes under alternative scenarios.

Request this →
Format

Executive working session

Build a shared assessment of the evidence and the choices ahead.

Request this →
Format

Board workshop

Assess the principal risks and the conditions that would change the board’s judgment.

Request this →
Format

Private briefing workshop

Review the evidence and identify the developments your team should monitor.

Request this →
Founder

Brendan Hart

economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor
Brendan Hart speaking with a handheld microphone.Founder

Brendan 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.

Inquiry

Build the workshop your team needs

Tell us the decision, who will participate, your preferred timing, and the question to resolve.

Tell us what you need so we can assess the fit and next steps.

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