These vignettes draw on Diana's senior tenure across Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Global Affairs Canada, and on Tigara Group's private practice. Specific deal names, country pairs, and government clients are withheld out of respect for confidentiality. Outcome categories and durations are real.
Senior policy analyst on a multi-country trade agreement at Global Affairs Canada, supporting cross-border commerce flows across multiple regions. Outcome categories included tariff alignment, regulatory harmonization, and dispute-resolution architecture.
Related capability →Four-year tenure preparing cabinet-level briefings on agricultural trade policy at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Briefings covered phytosanitary standards alignment, market access negotiations, and agricultural-export risk mitigation.
Related capability →Supported go-to-market strategy and partner-identification work for a mid-market exporter making its first moves outside North America. Engagement spanned discovery, partnership architecture, and on-ground stewardship across two quarters.
Related capability →Structured mediation for a multinational team where cultural-register conflict was being misread as performance failure. Engagement applied formal mediation framework over four structured sessions.
Related capability →Advised a mid-market firm on AI tooling selection, integration architecture, and team enablement. Engagement scope explicitly excluded any tooling that did not measurably extend existing operational competence within 90 days.
Related capability →Facilitated cross-cultural negotiation for a family-owned firm entering new international markets. Engagement bridged generational succession dynamics on the family side with cultural-register navigation on the counterpart side.
Related capability →Confidentiality is default. Initial conversations are no-obligation.
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