Consulting & Media · Human-centred by design
Make informed decisions, strengthen your team and communicate your work with confidence. BLUE SQUARES brings strategy, leadership development and media support together around your organization’s priorities.
For businesses, non-profits, public-facing organizations and the people who lead them.
The work we do
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Define the problem, agree on priorities and give people a practical direction to work toward.
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Bring roles, processes and communications into line with what your organization needs to deliver.
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Help leaders communicate with confidence and equip teams with tools they can use.
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Develop clear, credible content that helps people understand what you do and why it matters to them.
Explore this serviceThe BLUE SQUARES method
A useful engagement begins with a shared understanding of the problem and a practical way to address it.
Define the issue, the audience and the decision that needs to be made.
Connect priorities with the people, processes and responsibilities behind them.
Develop the skills, tools and content the work requires.
Make the direction understandable and give people a clear next step.
Work with BLUE SQUARES
Start with the work you need to accomplish. Choose an hourly assignment or a block of 10, 20, 30 or 40 hours, with scope and priorities agreed together.
Compare packages & ratesBring a new challenge, revisit an earlier project or share the next priority on your list. You do not need a finished brief or a package choice to begin a conversation.
Tell us what you needPaid Consulting and Media work is separate from Hope Imperative’s editorial decisions.
From Hope Imperative
Equity & Well-being
People experiencing homelessness describe lives shaped by uncertainty, isolation and the daily search for somewhere safe to stay. Their experiences also show what helps: affordable housing, practical support and relationships that allow them to regain control over their lives and begin planning beyond the next night.
Equity & Well-being
A shelter bed addresses an urgent need. Building a stable life takes housing, accessible care, sufficient income and continuing support. Canadian research offers evidence of what works, while exposing why a move into housing cannot be the final measure of success.
Equity & Well-being
Food insecurity reaches beyond Canada’s lowest-income households. This Hope Imperative analysis examines pressures on middle-income families, the limits of food banks and what research reveals about income supports. It asks how public policy can help households consistently afford the essentials.
The person behind the work
Journalist, photographer and organizational adviser
Maxx leads Hope Imperative and BLUE SQUARES Consulting and Media, drawing on more than 30 years of organizational experience. His work connects an understanding of people and systems with clear communication and practical judgement.
Hope Imperative is published by BLUE SQUARES. Editorial decisions remain separate from commissioned client services.
Meet Maxx & read his workOur foundation
BLUE SQUARES is the public-facing brand of psycolourgy, a federally registered Canadian not-for-profit corporation. Its human-centred foundation connects strategy and communication with quality of life, equity and meaningful progress.
