Services
Our Education and Innovation Practice supports research institutions, colleges, and universities in achieving strategic, operational, and policy goals – while strengthening institutional capacity and stakeholder alignment.
With a strong understanding of market dynamics and the provincial and federal landscape, we deliver strategies that are both politically informed and grounded in operational reality. Our approach combines the expertise of our management consulting, communications, and public affairs teams, applies a change management lens to ensure implementation feasibility, and offers tailored solutions in engagement, research, and strategy development.
Governance Reviews & Advisory
Assess board structures and processes to enhance oversight, accountability and outcomes
Strategic, Academic, & Research Planning
Support institutions in setting forward-looking priorities
Business & Service Transformation
Identify opportunities to streamline operations and modernize service delivery
Government Relations Advisory
Navigate provincial and federal governments to advance institutional interests
Communications Strategy & Advisory
Craft strategic messaging to engage students, staff, governments, and partners
Crisis Communications Strategy & Advisory
Manage reputational threats with swift, coordinated response strategies
Thought Leadership & Public Policy Development
Position institutions as credible voices in sectoral and public policy discussions
Interest holder & Community Engagement
Design engagement processes that build support and surface insight
Land & Infrastructure Development
Align campus and capital planning with growth strategies and government priorities
Featured experience
Advancing postsecondary policy and workforce innovation
Colleges Ontario
Colleges Ontario sought to strengthen its policy influence and expand educational opportunities for students across the province. The organization engaged StrategyCorp to analyze the long-term labour market impacts of COVID-19 and to develop a government relations strategy to advance key policy objectives, including approval for micro-credentials and...
Strategic planning and institutional renewal
Laurentian University
Following its 2021 restructuring under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), Laurentian University was required to develop a new strategic plan as a condition of exiting the process. The University engaged StrategyCorp to lead the engagement and planning process in collaboration with the administration, ensuring a transparent,...
Communications strategy for historic labour negotiations
College Employer Council
The College Employer Council engaged StrategyCorp to develop and implement a strategic communications campaign during the first-ever collective bargaining negotiations with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, representing more than 14,000 part-time support staff across Ontario’s 24 public colleges. The objective was to represent employer interests and...