Simplify complexity and implement practical solutions.
Quandary Compass (formerly Calla Strategies) helps organizations with crisis management, strategic, and operational planning solutions. Each collaboration is carefully developed with your mission and business goals in mind, measuring progress and delivering results. We have a genuine passion to build your capacity to set you up for success.
Meet Mary Conibear.
As President and CEO at Quandary Compass, Mary provides practical advice to corporations, governments, non-profits, international organizations and major events on strategic, business, operational and readiness planning. Her ability to analyze complex priorities and understand potential outcomes helps organizations implement practical solutions.
Mary’s enthusiasm and creativity has successfully propelled teams, partners, clients and stakeholders to achieve results together. Mary has designed Quandary Compass to minimize overhead and control the quality of service and work. She maintains direct relationships with client executives and commits to providing valuable services. If a scope of work requires additional resources, Mary has access to a roster of trusted specialists who can join a project.
EDUCATION
MBA (Strategic Management), Simon Fraser University
BBA (Accounting & Economics), Bishop’s University
MEMBERSHIPS
Business Continuity Institute CBCI Certification
Project Management Institute: Professional (PMP) Designation (active: 2005 – 2009)
What we do.
Crisis Readiness
- Crisis leadership development and training
- Business continuity management
- Exercise design and facilitation
- Emergency response plan audit and simplification
- Hazard and vulnerability analysis
- Business impact analysis
Analysis & Planning
- Strategic and operational planning
- Project feasibility assessments
- Process mapping
- Alignment of vision, mission and values
- Translating complex or abstract concepts into simpler processes
Engagement
- Stakeholder, partner and client relations
- Facilitation and speaking engagements
- Coaching, leadership and management
- Government relations
High quality and exactly tailored.
Mary’s work with the Government Olympic Executive was high quality and exactly tailored to the needs of the engagement. Mary also made a very positive impression with our clients and immediately established a position of authority by virtue of her past successes combined with a highly effective and winning personality which works with teammates and clients.
Tom Moran, KPMG
Clients & Projects.
Below is a selection of some of the clients we’ve worked with.
Explore our expanded client list.
