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Consulting & Media · Human-centred by design

Move forward with a clearer plan

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 BLUE SQUARES method

Start with what needs to change

A useful engagement begins with a shared understanding of the problem and a practical way to address it.

  1. 01

    Clarify

    Define the issue, the audience and the decision that needs to be made.

  2. 02

    Align

    Connect priorities with the people, processes and responsibilities behind them.

  3. 03

    Build

    Develop the skills, tools and content the work requires.

  4. 04

    Communicate

    Make the direction understandable and give people a clear next step.

Work with BLUE SQUARES

A focused assignment or support across several priorities

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.

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New, returning or already working together

Bring 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 need

Paid Consulting and Media work is separate from Hope Imperative’s editorial decisions.

From Hope Imperative

Issues that affect everyday life

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Working couple reviewing household bills beside groceries, depicting food insecurity in Canada.

Equity & Well-being

Canada needs a way out of the food bank line

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.

Maxx Kochar
Reconciliation beyond September 30: Canada's unfinished promise of clean drinking water

Infrastructure & Communities

Reconciliation beyond September 30: Canada's unfinished promise of clean drinking water

Canada has made measurable progress in lifting long-term drinking water advisories in First Nations communities. Yet thousands of households remain affected, and a proposed federal water law has raised questions about Indigenous rights, funding and accountability. Ahead of September 30, the evidence offers a practical examination of what reconciliation requires beyond public commemoration.

Maxx Kochar
Maxx Kochar, journalist and photographer

The person behind the work

Maxx Kochar

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 work

Our foundation

BLUE SQUARES | psycolourgy

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.

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, from no poverty and zero hunger to peace, justice and partnerships for the goals.
BLUE SQUARES uses the SDGs as a framework for examining organizational priorities and public-interest issues. Explore our SDG coverage.