Procurement Readiness Sprint
Capability narratives, bid positioning, compliance checks, and response structure for public, industrial, and partnership-driven opportunities.
Tomahawk Advisory Group
Executive advisory for procurement, reconciliation, risk, and delivery.
TAG helps leadership teams turn complex policy, partnership, and procurement decisions into practical plans, board-ready documents, risk controls, and accountable next steps.
Led by CEO Marc Smith, with 50 years of advisory experience.
Services
Named offers for serious mandates.
TAG is built for leaders who need the work converted into usable materials: briefing notes, procurement positioning, engagement plans, controls, risk registers, and decision packages.
Economic Reconciliation Roadmap
Practical reconciliation planning that connects commitments to procurement, partnerships, reporting, community benefit, and accountable implementation.
Indigenous Participation Planning
Partnership models, participation pathways, benefit logic, and engagement readiness built around early, respectful, properly resourced relationship work.
Board & Governance Briefings
Decision-ready summaries, options analysis, briefing decks, governance notes, and plain-language materials for leadership and boardroom review.
Finance & Controls Review
Budget framing, cash flow visibility, internal control review, compliance support, and executive finance reporting for practical business operations.
Risk & Crisis Readiness
Risk registers, escalation paths, contract and reputation-risk review, privacy/cyber awareness, and controls that help teams act before pressure builds.
What Buyers Need
Visible outputs, not vague consulting.
TAG’s work is designed to leave clients with usable decision tools: the kind of material that can move through leadership, procurement, finance, risk, and governance conversations.
Decision Packages
Clear options, risks, assumptions, recommended next steps, and executive summaries that leaders can actually use.
Procurement Materials
Capability statements, bid-readiness notes, compliance checklists, response outlines, and partner-facing language.
Engagement Readiness
Stakeholder maps, meeting preparation, protocol questions, issue logs, and clear flags for community-specific confirmation.
Controls & Reporting
Board-ready financial summaries, risk registers, internal-control notes, milestone tracking, and audit-ready documentation.
Indigenous Advisory Lens
Rights-aware, distinctions-based, and grounded in relationship.
TAG’s advisory approach is informed by Marc Smith’s 50 years of experience advising governments, Indigenous organizations, corporations, non-profits, economic development entities, and community leadership.
Canadian Policy Context
Ottawa-aware strategy without losing community focus.
TAG supports leaders working where business, government, procurement, rights, and community priorities meet.
Indigenous Business Management
Economic development corporations, procurement strategies, partnership structures, joint ventures, Indigenous ownership models, capacity building, community benefit agreements, and long-term wealth creation.
Aboriginal Law & Policy Awareness
Clear business interpretation of rights and policy contexts, including Section 35, treaty rights, modern treaties, land claims, consultation, UNDRIP, and free, prior and informed consent.
Cultural Competency & Safety
Trauma-informed engagement, anti-racism, respectful communication, protocol awareness, distinctions-based thinking, and avoidance of pan-Indigenous assumptions.
Governance & Engagement
Practical respect for elected, hereditary, traditional, tribal, Métis, Inuit, regional, and community-specific decision-making structures.
Important advisory standard:
TAG does not speak on behalf of Indigenous Peoples or any specific
community. Decisions that may affect rights, lands, culture, data,
economic interests, or governance should be confirmed through direct,
properly resourced engagement with the relevant Nation, community,
government, or representative body. Legal questions require qualified
legal counsel.
Method
Clear enough for the boardroom. Practical enough for the field.
Listen
We start with the operating reality: goals, constraints, people, timing, risks, and what must be decided next.
Build
We turn raw direction into usable plans, briefs, proposals, governance tools, and decision-ready documents.
Move
We support the next round of action so plans do not sit still: meetings, revisions, coordination, and accountability.
Specialist Bench
The right expertise for the mandate.
TAG keeps the core advisory relationship focused, then builds the right bench around each file. Community-specific, legal, technical, and Indigenous-led expertise should be brought in when the work requires it.
Indigenous Relations & Engagement Lead
For mandates involving Nation, community, governance, protocol, rights, data, land, or cultural considerations.
Government Procurement Advisor
For federal, provincial, municipal, Indigenous set-aside, supplier-readiness, and bid-compliance work.
Qualified Aboriginal Law Counsel
For formal legal advice on Section 35, treaty rights, consultation, accommodation, contracts, and rights-related risk.
Proposal, Grant & Bid Writer
For turning strategy into funder-ready, procurement-ready, or partner-ready documents with clear evidence and structure.
Project Delivery Lead
For workplans, milestone tracking, meeting rhythm, action logs, file discipline, and follow-through after decisions are made.
Research & Policy Analyst
For monitoring policy, funding, procurement, governance, and reconciliation requirements that affect the file.
Leadership
Marc Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Marc Smith brings 50 years of experience advising governments, Indigenous organizations, corporations, non-profits, economic development entities, and community leadership on Indigenous business management, Aboriginal law and policy contexts, cultural competency, and practical organizational change.
Finance Leadership
Victoria Wang
Chief Financial Officer
Victoria Wang brings CFO/controller-level financial strategy and operations support to TAG’s finance, accounting, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, controls, compliance, and decision-making needs.
Her finance profile includes 37 years of executive finance experience, master’s-level education, CPA and CFM-level expertise, senior finance credentials, and disciplined reporting, forecasting, controls, and compliance leadership.
Risk Leadership
Tom Grace
Chief Risk Officer
Tom Grace brings executive risk, governance, compliance, controls, cyber/privacy, crisis, contract, project, and reputation-risk advisory support to TAG’s risk-informed decision-making.
His risk profile includes 29 years of enterprise risk experience, master’s-level education, senior professional credential-level expertise, and practical support for identifying, assessing, controlling, escalating, and reporting material risks.
Professional presence with disciplined financial and risk follow-through.
TAG’s advisory work is built around humility, accountability, clear language, financial discipline, risk awareness, and delivery. The firm supports leaders who need strategic advice, board-ready reporting, executive finance discipline, risk controls, and decision support that respects governance, compliance, community-defined outcomes, and long-term trust.
- Distinctions-based First Nations, Métis, and Inuit awareness
- Board-ready financial summaries, analysis, and budget models
- Cash flow, internal controls, compliance, and audit readiness
- Risk registers, escalation frameworks, and crisis readiness
- Executive finance reporting, forecasting, and governance support
Contact
Bring shape to the next decision.
Tell TAG what kind of support you are looking for. Public inquiries route through the company inbox so the next step can be reviewed and coordinated properly.