We Serve As:

Consultants and Advisors for Leadership

For more than thirty years, Dewar Sloan has served Leaders at Every Level as they take care of today — and get ready for tomorrow. We provide counsel and support for leaders as they engage in decision making, forward planning, risk management, and problem solving.

We’re clearly focused on results.

Our Partners

Daniel Wolf advises executives, boards, and Strategic Teams at the intersections of strategy, governance, and structure. His discerning approach to guidance is based on a series of principles he first brought together in the book: Prepared and Resolved: The Strategic Agenda for Growth, Performance, and Change. These and other core themes have helped to earn the confidence of our client base with clear information and sound alternatives for planning and decision making at every level.

With a background in Marketing and Product Development, Dan’s perspectives have been informed by dynamic corporate and consulting experience. His sense of the evolution of customers, competitors, and conditions of the marketplace is built on personal exposure in many sectors. His sense of the organizations of today and tomorrow is shaped by experience with strategy formation, integration, and execution. His evolving work on “Lean and Legal” governance focuses on efficient board practices and leadership.

Daniel Wolf

Founding Partner

Julie Anstandig Wolf

Founding Partner

Julie Anstandig Wolf is a strategic advisor whose focus is the connection of organizational models, change management, and operational excellence. For the clients of Dewar Sloan, Julie brings a distinctive approach to the challenges of growth, performance, and change. Her focus on the strategic readiness of organizations is one that helps leaders at every level adapt and respond. She has been the research engine for much of the subject matter expertise produced by the firm.

Julie’s perspectives and ongoing research have been shaped by her formal education in Economics and Political Science, broad corporate and consulting experience, and her unique sense of the many tensions of today’s organizations. She has a unique grasp of the operational and compliance aspects of management, along with the relational and cultural aspects of leadership. A quiet and deliberate agent of progress, Julie is a steady guide who brings clarity and focus to our work.

The Dewar Sloan Team serves in consulting assignments, management and governance education, executive development conferences and strategic planning retreats.

Publications

Daniel Wolf is the author of Prepared and Resolved, Boards and Strategy, and Strategic Teams and Development, three books which are highly regarded for shaping an organization’s journey of growth, performance and change.

Prepared and Resolved

This strategy book explains the practical Strategic Agenda used by evolutionary companies as they adapt to challenges and opportunities. He The book breaks down the myths and constraints that can often disable the work of leadership and management.

Boards and Strategy

This book helps prepare boards and executives for the “next normal” in governance and shares a more effective approach to creating strategic and economic value. It tackles the issues of structure and strategy in a manner that is well-balanced and focused on results.

Teams and Development

This book explores the natural challenges of strategy direction, integration, and execution from a practical team perspective. It serves to define the structural factors and talent sets that transform Strategic Teams into value drivers and cultural assets.

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