Strategy
Leadership
Culture
Results
Helping leaders navigate complexity with confidence.
Why Stratagem?
Stratagem combines strategic thinking with practical implementation. We work alongside clients to build capability, strengthen leadership, and achieve measurable, sustainable results.
Strategy, leadership, culture, and organizational effectiveness — interconnected, all in service of lasting results.
HOW WE HELP
STRATEGIC ADVISORY
Clarifying direction
We help organizations define direction, navigate complexity, and make better decisions.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Developing exceptional leaders
We help you develop confident, capable leaders who inspire people and drive results.
CULTURE & ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Creating workplaces where people and performance thrive
We help organizations create healthy, high-performing environments in which expectations, systems, leadership behaviours, and culture reinforce one another.
LEARNING & FACILITATION
Building capability through engaging learning experiences
We design and facilitate practical learning experiences that help leaders and teams think differently, build confidence, and apply new skills.
STRATEGY IN ACTION
Turning strategy into sustainable results
We help organizations move from ideas and plans to ownership, implementation, accountability, and measurable progress.
Who We Work With
Stratagem works with executive leaders, executive teams, leaders at every level, and organizations including private companies, municipalities, healthcare, public sector and not-for-profit organizations.
The Stratagem Way
Every organization is different, so Stratagem does not begin with pre-packaged answers. We begin by listening, understanding your people, culture, goals and challenges, and asking the questions that uncover what is really happening.
Listen First
We begin with curiosity, not assumptions. Understanding your organization comes before offering advice.
Challenge With Respect
We ask difficult questions, test assumptions and offer honest perspectives that help leaders make better decisions.
Build Solutions Together
We work alongside leaders and teams to create practical solutions that fit your organization, culture and capacity.
Turn Insight Into Action
We simplify complexity, build internal capability and move strategy into clear priorities, ownership and practical next steps.
Our goal is to leave your organization stronger, your leaders more confident, and your people better equipped to succeed long after our work together is complete.
What Clients Experience
The strongest partnerships are built on trust, clarity and meaningful results.
Client testimonials
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Testimonial: I’ve been working with Vivianne for several years. There are a couple of qualities that distinguish her from others.
The first is a natural orientation to step in and try. I’ve seen a number of her projects, and they’ve typically come from her willingness to say, “I can help. Let me figure out how to make this happen.”
The second quality I’ve seen consistently is her capacity. Viv is always pushing for more and taking on more. Whether it’s work, her education, or exploring something new, she doesn’t sit idle.
Few people are built like this, and they’re the ones you want in your court.
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Testimonial: Vivianne’s approach is refreshing. She’s practical, efficient, and understands the intricacies of business.
She’s my go-to on complex people and leadership challenges, and I always leave with something I can act on.
always leave with something I can act on.
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Testimonial: Working with Vivianne has been such a positive experience for us and for our company. From the beginning, Vivianne took the time to really understand who we are, what we are building, and what matters to us. She has helped us look at our business in new ways, strengthen our ideas, improve our materials, and bring more clarity and intention to the work we do.
One of the things we value most about Viv is that she genuinely cares. She is thoughtful, honest, creative, and incredibly generous with her knowledge and experience. Her support has never felt generic or one-size-fits-all it has always felt personal, practical, and focused on helping us grow in a way that still feels true to us.
Vivianne has challenged us when we needed it, encouraged us when we needed that too, and helped us see possibilities we may not have seen on our own. Her contributions have had a real impact on the way we plan, communicate, present ourselves, and think about the future of our company. We are incredibly grateful for everything Vivianne has brought to our work and would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone looking for someone who combines strong business insight with creativity, professionalism, and genuine care.
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Testimonial: Vivianne has a rare gift: she can navigate executive leadership's toughest questions and hand back a practical strategy that can actually be rolled out. She does it all in plain language, never losing the room in jargon or corporate-speak. On our compensation project, her instinct for when to talk one-on-one versus rally the full team, kept things moving at exactly the right pace.
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Vivianne brings a thoughtful and collaborative approach to her work. Most recently, I partnered with her to develop a Personal Brand Leadership workshop that brought together key themes including self-awareness, accountability, and personal impact. Throughout the planning process, she was flexible and adaptable, understood the direction we wanted to take the workshop and was able to pivot as our thinking evolved. I really appreciated her ability to understand our vision and work with us to shape the workshop into something that felt relevant and practical for our team.
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Testimonial: I've had the privilege of knowing Vivianne Bridgeman since 2016, and she has been an incredible mentor, coach, and trusted resource to me throughout that time. Over the years, I have turned to Vivianne for support on everything from developing policies and procedures to working through complex HR situations, preparing for difficult conversations, and simply having someone knowledgeable and experienced to bounce ideas off of. She has always been willing to go above and beyond to help.
One of Vivianne's greatest strengths is her ability to instill confidence in others. Before some of the most challenging conversations I've had to navigate, she helped me think through the situation, consider different perspectives, and find the right approach and words. I could walk into those conversations feeling grounded, prepared, and confident that I could handle them well. She doesn't simply tell you what to do – she helps you think through the situation so that you become more capable and confident in handling it yourself.
What I also admire about Vivianne is her genuine curiosity and commitment to continuous learning. She is constantly expanding her own knowledge, staying current in her field, and looking for new ideas and perspectives that will make her better at what she does. Just as importantly, she never keeps that knowledge to herself. She is incredibly generous in sharing her experience, resources, and insights with the people around her.
Her mentorship has had a meaningful impact on how I approach my work in HR and how I've grown as a professional. I'm better in my role because of her guidance, and I'm incredibly grateful for the confidence she has helped me build, the knowledge she has shared, and the example she continues to set.

