Three principles, drawn from a career split between federal trade policy and private-sector advisory. Each is a deliberate choice — and a deliberate departure from how consulting is typically done.
Cross-border business is, first, a trust problem. The transactional layer follows. Most failed expansions invert this order — they negotiate terms before the parties know whether they actually understand each other.
Trade policy taught me to read the room before the deck. Mediation training formalized it. Both inform every engagement from first conversation forward.
Tigara Group is small by intention. Small means the principal works the engagement personally. Small means accountability has nowhere to hide.
Federal trade work taught me how rigorous the work has to be when billion-dollar markets depend on it. That rigor doesn’t disappear at boutique scale; it becomes the operating standard rather than the marketing claim.
I do not believe in selling complexity that the client did not ask for. I believe in being useful in measurable ways and being honest about the parts I cannot solve.
Engagements are scoped to specific outcomes before kickoff. Both parties know what success looks like. Both parties know what the engagement excludes.
No obligation, no pitch deck. If our conversation should become an engagement, we'll know.
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