Leadership & Business Consulting

You have the vision, or the experience. The question is whether the structure beneath it will hold.

Leadership Consulting for people and teams at a turning point: coaching, facilitation and talks, and Career Review for professionals making a move, including newcomer and internationally trained professionals. Business Consulting for founders and organisations that need a plan pressure-tested, a strategy built, or a positioning that holds. One practice, one consultant, accompanied from the first call to the handoff.

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Leadership Consulting

For people and teams at a turning point.

Leadership work is about people: a career that is not landing, a first-time manager without a framework, a team that needs a facilitator, a community that wants substantive content. Four ways to work together, all scoped to the moment.

Career Review ↓ Success stories ↓ Business Consulting →
Career Review

Your experience, rebuilt so Canadian employers can read it.

A complete rebuild of your professional presence: a master résumé, a rebuilt LinkedIn profile, two job-prep coaching calls and an application strategy session, with interview preparation built in. For professionals in transition, newcomer and internationally trained professionals, and anyone whose experience is not landing with the right employers.

Good for: a job search that is not converting, a move into a new industry or role, and building a professional presence for the Canadian market. How Career Review works →

Application Positioning Session

One role, one focused hour.

Review one specific job posting against your résumé and LinkedIn profile, identify the strongest positioning angle, and leave with concrete edits to make before you apply. No full rebuild required.

Good for: a single high-value application, or a first step before deciding on a full Career Review.

Leadership Coaching

Structured coaching for leaders at a specific moment in their development.

First-time managers navigating people dynamics for the first time. Experienced executives facing an organisational challenge that defies their existing frameworks. Business owners who have grown past the point where instinct alone is sufficient. The coaching model is simple: sit with the thinking, surface the frameworks, help the person move.

Coaching engagements are structured — not open-ended conversations. They begin with a diagnostic, follow a structured arc, and end with a clear picture of what changed and what comes next.

Good for: first-time leaders, executives navigating complex decisions, business owners who need a structured thinking partner.

Facilitation & Talks

Content-rich sessions for teams, communities, and conference audiences.

Eight-plus years of facilitation practice across Uganda and Canada — management workshops, leadership talks, team dynamics sessions, parenting and family leadership, PreMarital preparation, and professional clarity. The facilitation catalogue is broad. The standard is the same across every context: substantive content, practical framing, and a room that leaves with something real.

Facilitation is not a keynote that delivers content to an audience. It is a session that uses content to move an audience — from a problem to a framing, from a framing to a decision, from a decision to a next step.

Good for: planning retreats, leadership workshops, faith community sessions, team development, conference talks, and professional association events.

Career Review

Is Career Review for you?

Read through these statements honestly. Each one describes a situation that is easy to overlook and expensive to discover late.

I've been sending applications and not hearing back — or getting interviews but not converting them to offers.

My résumé was built for a different market — it reads like it was written for employers in my home country, not in Canada.

My LinkedIn profile hasn't been updated in over a year and doesn't reflect where I'm going — only where I've been.

I have strong international credentials, but I feel like Canadian employers are discounting them without really seeing what I've done.

I'm changing industries or roles and I don't know how to position my existing experience for a target I haven't held before.

I've been told my experience is strong — but nobody has helped me translate it into language the right employers will immediately recognise.

I don't have a targeted employer list — I'm applying broadly and hoping something lands, rather than running a real campaign.

I'm a newcomer professional who has been in Canada less than two years and I'm still learning how this job market works.

I've had the same job search routine for months — and the results haven't changed.

I want to invest in a structured, professional approach — not keep doing what isn't working and expecting a different result.

If you said yes to six or more — your job search needs a professional rebuild, not more applications. Every month spent with the wrong tools is a month of opportunities that went to someone whose résumé told the story better than yours. A discovery call is free. Rebuilding your approach after another six months of silence is not.

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Our model

How Career Review is built.

Done With You

We build the strategy together and run the campaign collaboratively.

We map your career preferences first — sector, org size, location, salary floor, role type. Then we build the assets together, target the employers, tailor each application, and adapt in real time. You're in it, not waiting on it. This model works across every client situation: a new market, a career change, internationally trained credentials, or a straightforward pivot. The accompaniment model means the thinking happens with you — not for you.

  • 1

    Discovery call — free, 30 min

    We discuss your situation, your target, and what a campaign for you would look like. Honest recommendation at the end.

  • 2

    Intake session — 1 hr

    Full work history, career preferences, target roles, and key achievements. Everything gathered in one focused session. This shapes every decision that follows.

  • 3

    Build phase

    Master résumé and LinkedIn built together, with rationale at each step. Multiple versions for different role types if needed. One revision round included.

  • 4

    Active campaign

    Target employer identification, application tailoring, post-interview follow-up. Run with you — not handed to you.

  • 5

    Handoff or transition

    If the role hasn't landed by engagement end, you move into the Olympia Community — an ongoing resource network for professionals still in search.

Business Consulting

For founders and organisations that need the structure to hold.

Business work is about plans: a strategy that needs pressure-testing, a business plan for a bank or investor, a positioning that does not match what you actually do, an organisation at an inflection point. Scoped to what the situation requires, time-bounded, and explained as it is built.

Success stories ↓ ← Leadership Consulting
Self-assessment

Is Business Consulting for your organisation?

These statements describe the situations that typically bring leaders to a discovery call. Read them honestly — the more you recognise, the more urgent the conversation.

I have a strong idea or direction, but nobody has pressure-tested the plan — and I'm not confident it will hold up when the stakes are real.

I'm preparing a business plan for a bank, an investor, or a funding programme — and it needs to answer every question before they ask it.

My organisation is at a strategic inflection point — a pivot, an expansion, a restructure — and I need structured thinking before we commit.

My team is not performing at the level it should. I'm not sure whether the problem is structure, communication, culture, or leadership — but I know something is off.

I need a facilitator for a planning retreat, a leadership workshop, or a community session — someone who can hold a room and move people toward real decisions.

I'm a first-time leader or manager and I'm navigating situations for which nobody gave me a framework — and I'm figuring it out alone.

My organisation's positioning doesn't reflect what we actually do or who we actually serve — and the gap is costing us clients, partners, or credibility.

I've been approached to speak or present at an event and I want the content to be substantive, structured, and genuinely useful — not generic motivation.

I'm running a startup or early-stage business and I need someone to help me think through the model — not tell me what to do, but help me think clearly.

I want to work with someone who has actually delivered at scale — not someone who has only advised from the outside.

If six or more of these landed — the discovery call is the right next step. Strategy problems compound quietly. Every month a plan goes untested, a positioning gap goes unaddressed, or a team dynamic goes unresolved, the cost grows. A 30-minute discovery call is free. Commissioning a strategy retreat after a year of drift is not.

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What we do

Two ways to engage. Both scoped to the moment.

Strategy Session

A focused half-day on a specific problem or opportunity.

Preparation, a structured session, and a written output. Best for leaders who have a specific decision to make, a challenge to reframe, or a direction to pressure-test — and who need a structured conversation with someone who has done this before, not a sounding board.

The session is not a presentation. It is a working session — with frameworks applied to your actual situation, real-time analysis, and a written output that captures the thinking and the next steps.

Good for: a specific strategic decision, a challenge that needs reframing, or a plan that needs testing before commitment.

Project Engagement

A scoped engagement with defined deliverables and a clear end point.

For situations that require more than a half-day — a competitive analysis, a positioning framework, a full business plan, a digital presence build, a governance document. The engagement is scoped after the discovery call, structured around specific deliverables, and delivered with the rationale explained at every step.

This is the format used for the Janzen Family Care and Haven Icecream engagements. It is what the accompaniment model was built for.

Good for: business plans, competitive research, positioning, digital presence strategy, governance frameworks, strategic documents.

Across both practices

However you start, in Leadership or in Business, the engagement is built the same way: a defined scope, one accountable name, and a plain account of what happens when the work ends.

How the engagement is structured

What working together looks like.

Every engagement — regardless of type — follows the same structure. The discovery call is always free. The work begins when a contract is signed and an initial payment is received. There are no exceptions.

01

Discovery call — free, 30 min

We discuss your situation, what you're trying to achieve, and what kind of engagement makes sense. At the end, we'll recommend a format if there's a fit — or be direct if there isn't.

02

Proposal

A short document confirming what the engagement covers, how it's structured, what you'll have at the end, and what it costs. Specific to your situation — not a template.

03

Contract and initial payment

Work begins when the contract is signed and the initial payment is received. This protects the quality of the work and the integrity of the engagement for both parties.

04

The work — and the handoff

Structured, thorough, and built with you. Deliverables are explained as they're produced — you understand the thinking, not just the output. Every engagement closes with a clear picture of what was built and what comes next.

What this is not: fractional executive work, open-ended advisory, or consulting that produces documents nobody reads. Every engagement is scoped, time-bounded, and sized to what the situation actually requires — not to demonstrate how much work was done.

How the engagement is structured

Two zones. You start in one and move to the other.

Outcomes don't always arrive on a schedule, but a consulting engagement cannot run indefinitely, for your sake as much as ours. This is how every engagement, in either practice, is structured, and how we stay useful after the contracted work ends.

Zone 1 — Active Engagement

The contracted work. Defined scope. Full attention.

This is the paid engagement: a Career Review, a coaching series, a facilitation, a strategy session or a project. It runs for the scope and timeline in your contract. During this phase you have direct access to Brian Ssennoga and real-time adaptation as the work develops.

The active engagement ends when the scope is complete, not when the outcome arrives. For Career Review clients, most land during or shortly after this phase. Some do not, and that is handled honestly.

  • Deliverables built to the agreed scope
  • Application tailoring and employer targeting (Career Review)
  • Direct consultant access throughout
  • Coaching calls and interview preparation where in scope
Zone 2 — Olympia Community

Post-engagement support for Career Review. Light-touch. Ongoing.

When the active engagement concludes, Career Review clients who haven't yet landed transition into the Olympia Community — a WhatsApp-based professional group where job opportunities, resources, and market intelligence are shared on an ongoing basis.

This is not a paid service. It is a community of professionals who have gone through the same process. Job leads get shared. Referrals happen. The relationship continues — just in a different mode.

  • WhatsApp-based — low friction, high relevance
  • Curated job opportunities shared as they surface
  • Peer connections with professionals in similar transitions
  • Occasional group resources and workshops
  • No time limit — stay as long as it's useful

Why this structure exists: rather than extending the engagement indefinitely at full consulting rate — which creates a bad dynamic for both parties — the Community Zone keeps the relationship alive and useful without misrepresenting what a consulting engagement can promise. We cannot guarantee a job or a business outcome. We can guarantee the work, the tools, and continued connection after the contracted work is done.

Every engagement runs under one name: Brian Ssennoga, Olympia & Associates, Alberta trade name TN27173962. One person, one signature, one accountable name on everything you receive — check it against anything sent to you.

Success stories

Real clients. Real outcomes.

Career Review (formerly Career Launch Bundle)

Maureen Mutesasira

Fifteen years of HR leadership. Rebuilt for the Canadian market.

Fifteen years of HR across talent acquisition, OD, compensation design, and labour relations. The challenge wasn't qualifications — it was professional presence. LinkedIn rebuilt from scratch with eight headline options and three bio versions. Government of Alberta and post-secondary sector as primary targets, employer-level contact mapping, and post-interview follow-up templates.

Started December · Hired May Edmonton

"I had built fifteen years of real HR experience — I just needed a way to present it so Canadian employers could immediately see my value. Brian rebuilt my professional presence from the ground up: the LinkedIn headlines, the bios, the application strategy, even the follow-up after interviews. Within a short period, I secured a role that aligned with my experience and career goals. My advice to anyone going through this process: follow Brian's guidance and trust his process — success doesn't happen by accident. It happens because the groundwork was laid properly."

— Maureen Mutesasira, Edmonton
Career Review
Career Review (formerly Career Launch Bundle)

Fiona Kyomukama

Nineteen years of service. Prepared to speak to every bit of it.

Nineteen years at Watoto Child Care Ministries — 200+ children supported, trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, team management across four countries. The interview was the gap. Full interview preparation across ten competency areas, with STAR-format responses built from her actual history. Faith-based community support roles require candidates who can speak fluently about their philosophy of care — the preparation made sure the interview reflected her depth.

Started May · Hired August Community Support Worker, Edmonton

"I did not just target the job. I volunteered with my team, in multiple sites. By the time I walked into that interview I wasn't nervous. I was ready. I had the role within weeks."

— Fiona Kyomukama, Community Support Worker, Edmonton
Career Review
Facilitation · Faith Community & Leadership

Edmonton Talks — Daughters of Zion & Rhema Chapel

Two organisations. Four sessions. Applied leadership facilitation in Edmonton.

Two faith community organisations brokered through Diamond Consulting Inc. Four facilitated sessions delivering leadership and personal development content for real audiences — navigating leadership inside families, workplaces, and community spaces simultaneously. Applied sessions grounded in eight years of facilitation practice, not theoretical frameworks. Delivered in Edmonton, March 2026.

4 paid sessions delivered · Edmonton Q1 2026

"The content was substantive and immediately applicable — not the kind of session you forget before you leave the room."

— Session participant, Edmonton, March 2026
Facilitation
Project Engagement · Digital Presence & Positioning

Janzen Family Care

From solo practice to positioned service.

Candice Janzen had a family navigation service that worked — and a digital presence that didn't reflect how distinctive it actually was. The engagement ran four phases: competitive analysis across three comparator organisations, positioning gap matrix and page blueprints, a full multi-page HTML website build, and an AI Implementation Brief governing AI use within the practice. Every decision was explained in plain language as it was made.

4 phases from blank canvas to launched practice

"The site finally looks and reads like what I've actually built."

— Candice Janzen, Founder, Janzen Family Care, Edmonton (confirmation pending)
Project Engagement
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new engagements per month

The limit is there because the work demands it.

Every engagement works directly with Brian Ssennoga. Career Review in particular requires active, ongoing attention: reviewing applications, adapting messaging, preparing for interviews. Strategy and project work needs the same focus.

Two new engagements per month is that ceiling. When spots are full, you join the waitlist and hear back within 48 hours with your estimated wait time.

Join the waitlist

Leave your details and we will be in touch within 48 hours with your estimated wait time and a first resource matched to your situation, where one fits.

  • A first resource matched to your situation, where one fits
  • Access to the Olympia Community while you wait (Career Review)
  • Direct notification when a spot opens
  • No obligation — leave at any time

Career Review involves your personal information at depth: full work history, salary expectations, career goals, and personal circumstances. Business and leadership engagements involve sensitive organisational information: strategy, personnel context, financial circumstances, and operational detail. All of it is handled in confidence, used only to perform the agreed services, never submitted to an AI tool, and not shared with third parties. We are governed by PIPEDA (federal) and Alberta's PIPA. Organisational clients are welcome to have our Terms of Service reviewed before signing; full commitments are in our Privacy Policy.

Pricing is shared on your discovery call and in writing before you commit. All prices CAD. GST (757324769RC001) applies to all billable work. Payment: under $800 — 30% on signing, 70% on delivery; $800 to $1,500 — 30% on signing, 40% at midpoint, 30% on delivery; over $1,500 and retainers — 30% on signing, then bi-weekly installments. No work begins without initial payment received.

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