Private workshops for critical decisions
Working sessions that combine advisory rigor with briefing clarity, giving your team a shared understanding of what is changing and a sharper way to act on it.
Executive teams
Leaders who need a shared read before capital, technology, or market decisions move.
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
Rooms navigating state capacity, industrial policy, and strategic competition.
Built around the decision confronting your team
Each workshop starts with the audience, the question, the time horizon, and the signals that would change the view.
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.
Request thisAI infrastructure, compute, and energy
Where compute, power, and capital intensity reset competitive position.
Request thisIndustrial policy and strategic competition
How states and firms compete for durable advantage.
Request thisMarket structure and execution risk
The rules and frictions that decide whether a strategy clears.
Request thisState capacity and institutional bottlenecks
Where execution, permitting, and coordination bind.
Request thisRisk signals, resilience, and watch points
What to watch as risks start to reprice.
Request thisWorkshops are working sessions, not talks
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
Pre-work with the sponsor, a tailored briefing deck, facilitated scenario or assumption mapping, and a concise output 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 turns complex systems into a clear way to read what is changing, then translates that read into choices, risks, and watch points.
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.
Deliver the signal
Give the team a sharper way to interpret change and act under uncertainty.
Workshops to reach decision advantage
Scenario workshop
Assumptions are tested, scenarios are mapped, and the range of outcomes is clearer.
Request thisExecutive working session
The team leaves with one shared, pressure-tested read on the situation.
Request thisBoard workshop
Directors leave with tighter framing on the risk and the conditions that would change it.
Request thisPrivate briefing workshop
A leadership room leaves with the signal and a clear view of what to watch.
Request thisBrendan Hart
economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisorFounderBrendan 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.
Through his writing, teaching, and advisory work, Hart provides economic intelligence for leaders who need to understand how markets, institutions, technology, and capital shape economic power.
He began his career as a team leader in the United States Marine Corps' premier antiterrorism unit, and went on to co-found SVA and BMNT. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Build the workshop your team needs
Send the decision context, the audience, the timing, and the question the workshop should clarify.