Public Sector and Industry
We help ports, Crown corporations, health authorities, forestry, energy, and government organizations communicate complex change to the publics, partners, and communities that shape their licence to operate.
Organizations that operate as civic and economic infrastructure require partners who understand the complex ecosystems in which they operate, funder mandates, regulations, labour relations, and public-private partnerships, and the challenges of earning trust and social licence.
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Making sense of civic and social infrastructure
Our work starts upstream. We help organizations define who they are, how they work, and what they need to communicate across every report, campaign, and engagement, and then build the infrastructure to ensure consistency. The result is a holistic strategy, brand positioning and messaging, a reporting approach, and an engagement system that translates complex operational realities into a coherent, public-facing whole.
When that work is in place, an organization operates inside a more stable relationship with the people it serves. Decisions arrive with their reasoning visible. Disclosure compounds, year over year. Indigenous partners, regulators, and community members find consistent answers across channels and over time. And social licence becomes a condition the organization actively holds, maintained through practice, renewed through transparency, and reinforced by every public-facing act.
How we help public sector and industry clients:
Communications Strategy
Communications and brand strategy for Crown corporations, ports, ministries, and industrial clients navigating change.
Sustainability & ESG Reporting
Annual sustainability and ESG reports aligned with CSDS, ISSB, OSFI B-15, and Bill S-211.
Annual & Investor Reports
Annual reports, investor reports, and integrated reporting architecture for multi-stakeholder organizations.
Stakeholder Communications
Long-horizon communications across trade, regulatory, environmental, and community stakeholder fields.
Public Awareness Campaigns
Public information and behaviour-change campaigns on issues where the science is technical, and the stakes are public.
Public Engagement
Community consultation, participatory planning, and engagement frameworks for public bodies and major projects.
Public-Private Partnership Strategy
Coalition design, governance architecture, and shared communications for public-private-Indigenous partnerships.
Trusted by organizations responsible for
critical systems and infrastructure.
FAQs
Before most engagements begin, these are the questions clients need answered.
Strategy, brand, ESG and sustainability reporting, stakeholder communications, public engagement campaigns, and public-private partnership design for ports, Crown corporations, forestry, energy, government, and health organizations. Our most common engagements are multi-year sustainability reporting and complex stakeholder communications.
ESG reporting is the structured disclosure of an organization's environmental, social, and governance performance. In Canada, the practice is being reshaped by the Canadian Sustainability Disclosure Standards (CSDS), ISSB-aligned international reporting, OSFI Guideline B-15 climate disclosure expectations for federally regulated financial institutions, and Bill S-211 modern slavery reporting. The shift is from voluntary storytelling to mandatory, comparable, audit-ready disclosure — which is why most internal teams are looking for partners who can do both the technical and the narrative work.
Yes. We have an active practice winning and delivering structured government and Crown corporation procurements, including with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Unity Health, and the First Nations Health Authority. We can support clients through procurement or work with internal teams to shape requirements before formal RFPs are issued.
Carefully, in good relation, and with explicit recognition that we are not the voice. Indigenous partnership is treated as a strategic dimension of our clients' mandate, not as a communications layer added at the end. We work within the protocols our clients are building, defer to Indigenous partners on questions of representation and voice, and never speak on behalf of communities we are not part of.
It's the practice of helping a coalition of public, private, community and Indigenous partners design new shared institutions, governance models, and communications infrastructure for civic and economic challenges that no single organization can address alone: transportation corridors, energy transition, port and trade systems, and integrated public services.
For multi-stakeholder coalition design and system change work in the non-profit and social impact sector, see our practice in Non-Profit & Social Impact.
Bring us your most critical communications challenge.
A new sustainability disclosure cycle. A contested project. A partnership that needs to be earned. A mandate shift that nobody has explained yet. If you're navigating something that has to withstand scrutiny from multiple parties, we'd like to hear about it.
Government, Ministries, and Crown Corporations
Public engagement, behaviour-change communications, strategy, and brand work for federal, provincial, and territorial public bodies.
Ports, Transportation, and Infrastructure
B2B communications, interestholder engagement, and sustainability reporting for organizations operating at the intersection of trade, regulation, and community.
Forestry, Energy, and Natural Resources
Sustainability and ESG reporting, brand and communications strategy, and stakeholder communications for resource-sector organizations operating under intensifying disclosure expectations.