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Preparing Organizations for What's Next.

Aligning Vision. Enabling Change. Delivering Results.

BusinessOne works alongside leaders to strengthen alignment, navigate change, and achieve sustainable results.

Free assessments

Start with an Assessment

Understanding where you are today is the first step in preparing for tomorrow. Our assessments help leaders identify strengths, gaps, opportunities, and priorities to support informed decision-making and future readiness.

The context

Thriving in a World of Constant Change

The pace of technological innovation, artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, and evolving customer and citizen expectations requires organizations to think and operate differently.

Success depends on strong leadership, organizational alignment, effective governance, and the ability to continuously adapt to change.

BusinessOne helps organizations strengthen these capabilities to remain resilient, innovative, and prepared for what's next.

Our approach

Why BusinessOne

  1. 01

    Align

    Create alignment across leadership, governance, priorities, and stakeholders to ensure focus on what matters most.

  2. 02

    Enable

    Strengthen organizational capability, decision-making, and readiness for change through practical leadership and advisory support.

  3. 03

    Transform

    Navigate complexity, implement meaningful change, and achieve measurable, sustainable results.

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Leadership advisory

Experienced leadership through change.

Our advisors bring deep leadership, financial and operating experience. They help you set priorities, align the executive team and keep momentum through transitions and transformation.

  • Objective advice on competing priorities
  • Clarity, accountability and focus on results
  • Guidance through change and transformation
Leadership Advisory
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Smart-city strategy

A smart-city plan council can act on.

We build your strategy on cloud infrastructure, data and AI to streamline government processes and improve citizen services. Then we help you choose solution partners and plan the rollout.

  • Citizen services that are faster and more transparent
  • Decisions grounded in data, not vendor demos
  • An implementation plan with the right solution partners
Smart City Strategy
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AI strategy & governance

An AI roadmap your board can own.

We find the use cases worth funding and set governance that keeps AI ethical, transparent and compliant. You get a roadmap your executives can defend and your teams can deliver.

  • Use cases ranked against your business goals
  • A responsible-AI policy and governance model
  • A roadmap from first pilot to scale
AI Strategy

Selected engagements

Work we've done.

Public and private sector clients in Canada and around the world. Client names stay confidential.

  • Government Agency

    AI Policy, Strategy and Roadmap

    A policy for the responsible use of AI, and a strategy and roadmap to adopt it.

  • Government Agency

    Strategic Planning

    A three-year strategic plan and the governance framework to go with it.

  • Healthcare Agency

    Performance Management

    An online Balanced Scorecard that cascades strategic objectives and accountability across stakeholder groups.

  • Global Cloud Provider

    Culture Change

    A change-leadership workshop that aligned 30 executives and senior managers on one path forward.

Together we can match the pace of change and do great things for the future.
Dana Saltern, Founder, BusinessOne® Corporation

Our founder

Dana Saltern

Dana Saltern founded BusinessOne in 2012 to help leaders carry strategy through to results.

Her Canadian firm works alongside executive teams across North America, inside the work rather than above it.

Fifteen minutes tells you whether we can help.

Tell us what's going on and we'll tell you whether we're the right fit.

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Response within one business day.