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"Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast"

- Peter Drucker

Corporate, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations are experiencing competitive, technological, workplace and geopolitical challenges like never before. The result? Leadership paralysis and burnout, employee malaise and a loss of momentum, even with the best strategy. This is often the most significant risk an organization faces and the hardest problem to solve.

If any of this resembles your organization, you have a culture problem. You also know that traditional consulting firms deal with the technical issues of strategy and process—the 'hard stuff'—but rarely with culture —the 'soft stuff'. That's because the soft stuff is actually the hardest to solve, especially with their template-driven approach. At Transilience Partners, we thrive by helping our clients solve the hard problem of the soft stuff—culture. 

 

Strategy Defines Direction - Culture Determines Velocity

 

Strategy sets what you're trying to achieve; culture determines how fast, consistently, and sustainably you get there.

  • A brilliant strategy without a supportive culture often dies in execution.
  • A strong, aligned culture can elevate even an average strategy through discretionary effort, adaptability, and innovation.

In studies by McKinsey, Bain, and Kotter & Heskett (Harvard), firms with strong, adaptive cultures outperformed peers by 3–4x in revenue growth and shareholder returns over 10 years.

Culture is our focus and passion — it’s the invisible operating system that determines how everything else performs. But we also know that culture doesn’t exist in isolation.  Strategy, structure and processes define the direction and activities of your organization.

At Transilience Partners, we help leaders transform their leadership and organizational culture and align all four — strategy, structure, systems, and culture — so that purpose, process, and people move in sync. We’ve built companies, led transformations, and shaped high-performing cultures firsthand. We know what it takes to make strategy live through culture — and culture scale through systems.

We’d love to help you design a future that’s strategically focused, systemically sound, and culture-driven. Let’s connect and explore the possibilities.

Culture as Strategic Multiplier

Culture isn’t soft — it’s the unseen architecture of performance.

It’s how work gets done when no one’s looking — the shared beliefs, assumptions, and habits that shape how people think, decide, and behave, especially under pressure.

  • Do they collaborate or retreat into silos?  
  • Innovate or protect their turf?  
  • Tell the truth or tell you what they think you want to hear?

Culture is your organization’s operating system — invisible, yet decisive in determining how effectively strategy becomes action.

When culture is strong and aligned, people:

  • Trust each other and take initiative.
  • Solve problems faster and learn from mistakes.
  • Adapt to change rather than resist it.

The highest-performing organizations recognize culture as a multiplier of strategy.

Our Approach

We take a deeply personalized, partnership-based approach — working closely with you to understand your unique context, challenges, and aspirations. Together, we assess how well your current strategy, structure, processes and culture support one another — and where alignment can unlock new levels of performance.

Our work spans Executive/Leadership and Team/Group Coaching, Leadership Development, and Strategic Business Advisory services. We help you evolve both the inner architecture (mindsets, habits, and behaviours) and the outer architecture (strategy, structure, and processes) that drive resilience, adaptability, and sustained success.

To deliver even more comprehensive solutions, we have partnered with a network of like-minded boutique partners — experts in strategy, go-to-market design, operations, and business intelligence. Together, we offer a seamless, high-touch experience: diverse expertise and integrated insight, coordinated through a single trusted point of contact.

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Our Services

Provided either discretely or configured into a custom-designed solution for your organization, we have expertise across all elements of culture, structure, and strategy. With our partners, we offer a broader set of services covering marketing strategy and execution, operational transformation and advanced data modelling and analytics.

Coaching

Leadership Development

Strategic Business Advisory

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Ashley Chase

Executive & Leadership Coach | Co-Founder and Partner

Ashley is a professionally certified executive and leadership development coach (PCC, ICF) who brings more than 20 years of experience working with leaders and organizations across sectors — public, crown, and private — navigating complex cultural and business transformations. Her work spans Canada and beyond, often in environments where pressure, pace, and competing priorities can test even the most capable teams and leaders.

Clients describe Ashley as both grounding and transformational — a rare blend of calm presence, sharp insight, and direct honesty delivered with deep compassion. She has a natural ability to get to the root of an issue quickly, offering observations that open minds and inspire growth without defensiveness.

A former international track-and-field athlete, Ashley understands performance from the inside out. Having faced adversity firsthand, she helps leaders use challenge as a mirror for growth.  This lived understanding fuels her belief that resilience is built not by avoiding struggle, but by meeting it with awareness, emotional regulation, and deliberate action.

Her coaching blends compassion with challenge, and insight with structure — helping leaders manage their minds, master their emotions, and take aligned action that reinforces growth. 

Because when leaders transform from the inside out, everything around them changes too.

Doug Girvin

Business Coach, Strategy Consultant | Co-Founder and Partner 

With over 30 years as a technology leader, entrepreneur, and consultant, Doug has a broad base of experience in corporate leadership, culture, strategy, execution, product development, capital raising, and selling to large enterprises in global markets.

As a Founder, Doug built and led a team of over 80 people that created an enterprise digital experience software platform on Salesforce. Doug raised over $20M in Private Equity. He leveraged the software platform to deliver business-critical, transformational IT solutions to some of the largest organizations in the world in 14 countries, including Walmart (US HQ), Manulife (HQ/Global), ANZ Banking Group (AU), AstraZeneca (UK), American Express (UK/Global), Lincoln Financial (US), Bristol-Myers Squibb (US/Global) and many others. He has also served on several Boards, including ORDCF, which provided over $500M in funding for leading-edge research and innovation partnerships.

Throughout his career, Doug has been driven by a passion for solving strategy and complex business and technology challenges by bringing together disparate, often conflicting teams and objectives, aligning them for engagement and success.

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We'd love to help you take your Leadership and Organizational Culture to the next level. Let's have a conversation about how we can work together to make it happen!