TAG leads the architecture of systems, talent, and performance. AIM strengthens brand, positioning, and market visibility. BIG brings financial clarity, funding readiness, and decision discipline. Together, they help leaders build organizations that are clearer, stronger, and more scalable.
Our purpose
Most leaders are not failing because they lack effort, intelligence, or commitment. They are failing because the systems shaping behavior, decisions, focus, and execution are invisible.
"Performance does not break because people stop caring. It breaks when the system no longer makes the right work visible, repeatable, and governable."
TAG helps leaders design and govern the systems, talent conditions, and leadership rhythms that turn effort into consistent, measurable performance. We respond directly to the structural gaps identified above — making the invisible visible so leaders can govern the conditions that shape results.
We make work, decisions, standards, and information flow visible so leaders can reduce friction and govern execution.
We help leaders build capability, trust, learning, and accountability inside the systems where people actually work.
We design the rhythms, measures, and leadership conditions that make performance more consistent and less dependent on heroics.
These three disciplines work together. Systems without talent development become bureaucratic. Talent development without clear systems creates inconsistency. Performance improvement without both systems and talent development is unsustainable. TAG integrates all three.
TAG operates as a nonprofit because its work is rooted in strengthening leaders, organizations, and communities through better systems, stronger talent conditions, and more predictable performance.
We dedicate 10% of our resources to help underprivileged children get involved in sports — removing barriers to participation, building capability, and creating pathways to athletic opportunity.
When systems are designed well, when talent is developed, and when performance conditions are clear, people thrive.
Sports participation teaches discipline, teamwork, resilience, and systems thinking.
Our commitment extends TAG's philosophy beyond organizations into communities.
Performance does not improve in isolation. TAG, AIM, and BIG are three connected disciplines moving in formation. Each brings distinct capability. Together, they create the conditions for sustainable growth and predictable execution.
We help leaders design the systems, talent conditions, and leadership rhythms that turn effort into consistent, measurable performance.
We help organizations clarify their brand, positioning, messaging, and visibility systems so the right market understands why they matter.
We help leaders build financial clarity, funding readiness, and decision systems that support confident growth and scale.
The leaders guiding TAG's mission — bringing systems thinking, strategic clarity, and community impact to everything we build.
Chris Charlebois
Board Chair
Dave Minchin
Board Secretary
Dave Minchin
Board Secretary
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Abby Shirazi
Chief Marketing Advisor
Orianna Gazzaneo
Chief Financial Officer
Scott McRoberts
Community Impact Advisor
Tyler Childs
Executive Advisor
MEACT Specialists are not consultants. They are architects and integrators. MEACT stands for Mentor, Educate, Advise, Coach, and Train—and that is exactly what they do. They design systems, build capability, and ensure integration happens—not just recommend it. TAG's specialists stay engaged in execution because performance improvement requires more than advice; it requires disciplined design, sustained commitment, and the development of capability inside your organization so you can sustain performance independently.
Abby Shirazi
Brand Architect
Paul Poirier
Systems Architect
Orianna Gazzaneo
Financial Enablement Architect
Scott McRoberts
Grant & Funding Specialist
Samuel Nwafor
Systems Integration Specialist
Our Philosophy
The Key Distinction
Not this
Not blaming people — which is a futile and demoralizing exercise.
But this
But not accepting underperformance or resistance to necessary change — which is organizational suicide.
This is the reality of change. It requires clarity about human nature. And it requires leaders who understand their responsibility to protect the whole.