Principal Consultant

Matt O'Grady

Seasoned and award-winning communications professional. Graduate of the Queen’s School of Business and SFU’s Master of Publishing program.Former Executive Editor of Canadian Business, B.C. Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail and, most recently, Editor-in-Chief of BCBusiness.Recognized by the National Magazine Awards and Jack Webster Foundation for his writing. As a long-time journalist, Matt knows how to connect with the nation’s top business and political leaders.

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Principal Consultant

Kevin Keystone

Senior project strategist with twenty years of professional experience. Graduate of the University of British Columbia and Harvard Divinity School.Recruited and led award-winning teams for UBC, Coast Capital Savings, and BC's 2SLGBTQIA+ community centre.Recognized by the American Jewish Press Association's Simon Rockower Award for Journalism. Kevin works with local and international clients in technology, mediation, and communications.

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Strategy

This is fundamental to what OAK does: we understand what your audience wants and map out how to deliver it.We help you reinvent current communications products—from annual reports to website copy—or deliver captivating new ones, from keynote speeches to thought leadership.With over 15 years of local and national media experience, we can counsel you on how to reach the widest possible audience—or target the more exclusive niche.

Project Management

We practice modern project management—grounded in the arts of organization and leadership but with a mastery of technology and technique.Software design and development has brought much to the world of project management—Notion, Slack, Google Workspace, design sprints—which we leverage and bring to you.We help you design and chart your project path of least resistance, and then resource and execute it to your precise specifications.

Content Creation

Once a project has been properly defined and mapped out, we get down to business. Local, regional and national awards foundations have recognized OAK principals for the quality of their writing.We deliver the exact product you require with both precision and panache.And we have the ear of top leaders, from major media organizations to the nation’s top employers, to make sure your message is heard.