Crisis stabilization
Practical support for disrupted terms, uncertain decisions and continuity.
In development: explore Crisis stabilizationBig responsibility.You don’t have tofigure it out alone.
Practical tools and grounded support for Canadian student unions.
Consulting
Extra capacity for complex challenges, important priorities and big decisions.
In development: explore ConsultingMembership
Practical resources, learning and connection for student union leaders.
In development: explore MembershipWhy I’m building the Lab
Better decisions.
Useful progress.
Stronger continuity.
For the people leading Canadian student unions, associations and societies.
Hi, I’m Matthew.
Matthew Dunlop
Why I’m building the Lab
I’m developing the Lab around a practical idea: useful evidence should help teams make decisions, deliver work and preserve continuity.
The focus is Canadian postsecondary student unions, associations and societies. Support should start with your mandate and leave capability with your team.
The approach behind the workStart with something useful
A handover needs more than a folder.
Choose one unfinished priority. Make the next decision, the source of authority and the next useful action clear.
The free Leadership Continuity Check gives you eleven prompts, a fictional example and a record you can download and keep.
Open the continuity checkNo signup. Your answers stay in the open page until you download them.
The thread that connects the work
Understand it. Act on it. Leave it usable.
Start with the real situation
Bring together current records, the mandate and the practical problem. Keep confirmed facts distinct from questions.
Agree the next useful result
Name the decision owner, the work to be done and the boundaries. Choose a result that matters to your team.
Build continuity into delivery
Leave sources, decisions and next steps in an organization-owned record another authorized person can understand.
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More support in development.
Consulting, crisis stabilization and membership are being developed. Explore the proposed routes, try the free tool and read a sample Brief.
Membership enrollment is not open. This website does not book engagements or provide emergency or on-call coverage. Any engagement needs a separately agreed scope and confirmed availability.
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