Strategic workshops for high-stakes execution
Closed-door sessions that pressure-test assumptions, map operational trade-offs, and establish a rigorous baseline for thoughtful decision-making.
- Scenario mappingIsolate baseline assumptions and map compounding effects under volatile alternative conditions.
- Executive working sessionAgree on the facts before you commit capital. Your team leaves with one shared, evidence-based view of the operating environment and the capital choices ahead.
- Board risk workshopWeigh the principal systemic risks and name the market conditions that would force a change in governance.
- Strategic offsiteHalf-day or full-day sessions for leadership, focused on resolving a specific structural vulnerability.
We facilitate team collaboration and critical thinking on important issues
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
An effective session yields a defensible decision matrix and a strict set of indicators that would invalidate it.
Every session moves from your baseline assumptions to the evidence to the decision and who owns it.
Define the parameters
Clarify core operational dilemma, the people involved, and the decision horizon before the session.
Stress-test the evidence
Interrogate the structural research, map the alternative scenarios, and expose the fragile assumptions underlying each option.
Lock in the trajectory
Finish by establishing a clear owner for every decision and defining what market signals would trigger a reassessment.
Featured research
The Uninsurable Map
Climate risk reaches balance sheets through insurance before it arrives as a disaster.
We cover the macro conditions that determine capital allocation
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.