Defence · Energy & Critical Minerals · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Based in Ottawa, Serving All of Canada

An all-female leadership
team for SMEs at
inflection points.

We consult and advise growing companies through five advisory lines: executive, operational, partnership, marketing, and financial. Project by project, alongside your leadership team, with other experts from our ecosystem brought in when a project demands it.

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Who We Are

A consulting firm.
Working alongside your leadership team.

Altevere provides executive leadership and advisory expertise to SMEs through flexible, project-based engagements; bringing the right senior-level experience to the business at the right time to address leadership, operational, and strategic needs, without requiring a permanent executive hire.

Our all-female team brings senior expertise across a range of disciplines, including CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Partnership, Chief Marketing, and other executive leadership functions. We work alongside SME leadership teams to provide the expertise, perspective, and capacity needed to navigate specific challenges, opportunities, and stages of growth.

99.7%of Canadian employer businesses are small or medium-sizedISED Canada
$1Tin new investment Canada's national plan aims to unlock over five years
1consulting agreement for each project, with one firm accountable for the result

On every project, our senior executives collaborate across disciplines and share what they know, so you benefit from the experience of the whole team. We start by diagnosing what is holding your business back, scope the project around your growth goals, and stay accountable for the result.

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"Our team has already done the work your company needs next. We bring that experience alongside your leadership team, and we stay accountable until the job is done."
Laura A. Gray, Founder & CEO, Altevere

What We Offer

Our services.
Five advisory lines.

Inflection points are the moments a business changes shape: a leadership transition, a push to scale, a capital raise, a new market. Our all-female team meets them through five advisory lines, each delivered as a defined Altevere project alongside your leadership team and accountable to the firm. See each advisory line →

01
Executive Advisory
Chief Executive Officer
For the moment leadership changes hands or the next stage needs clearer direction. Strategic leadership at the top of the business: direction-setting, culture, board relationships, and the hard calls that shape where the company goes next.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
StrategyVisionBoard Relations
02
Partnership Advisory
Chief Partnership Officer
For the moment growth depends on relationships you do not yet have. We build strategic partnerships and the investor, channel, and referral relationships that open doors a founder cannot open alone.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
Strategic PartnershipsCapital IntroductionsRelationships
03
Operational Advisory
Chief Operating Officer
For the moment growth outruns your systems. We build the systems, process discipline, and team accountability that turn strategy into something that ships, and the commercialization strategy that gets it to market.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
OperationsSystemsCommercialization Strategy
04
Marketing Advisory
Chief Marketing Officer
For the moment the market has to understand you. We sharpen positioning and brand and put a go-to-market plan behind them.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
PositioningBrandGo-to-Market
05
Financial Advisory
Chief Financial Officer
For the moment capital decisions get serious: a raise, a loan, or a sale on the horizon. We build the financial model, the capital strategy, and the investor-ready numbers that hold up under scrutiny.
Delivered as an Altevere mandate, opened with our Relationship Capital Audit. Altevere leads the engagement and is accountable for the outcome.
CapitalFinancial ModelingInvestor Readiness

Our Process

How We Engage.

One consulting agreement for each project, one point of contact, and one firm accountable for the result: Altevere.

01
Intake
The Relationship Capital Audit produces your first relationship map.
02
Mandate
A defined scope, led by Altevere, under one retainer.
03
90-day check-in
We show what moved from fragile to strong.

Why Altevere

Consulting built
to solve SME growth.

Altevere is one team of senior CxOs. You engage us on a defined project, the right executive leads it alongside your leadership team with the whole Altevere team behind her, and we stay accountable for the outcome.

01
Senior experience, applied
Every member of our team has held senior executive roles and solved the problems our clients bring us: executive, operational, partnership, marketing, and financial leaders, working as one team on your project.
02
Diagnosis before delivery
We start with the Relationship Capital Audit, then scope the project and the expertise best placed to lead it.
03
One accountable provider
You are not managing contractors. You hold one consulting agreement for each project, one point of contact, and one firm accountable for outcomes: Altevere.
04
Supported behind the scenes
Every executive is supported behind the scenes by our confidential team, so you engage only the expertise you need and still benefit from the experience of the whole team.

Begin the Conversation

Tell us the problem.
We will scope the project.

Tell us what is holding the business back. We will tell you honestly whether it is a project we can solve, and what solving it would look like.

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