Workshops & training
Taught by someone
still doing the work.
Training is not a third practice here — it is the same expertise delivered in a different format. Cybersecurity and AI governance, go-to-market, and the federal market-entry work that sits between them.
In English or in French, for professional associations, accelerators, and universities. Every session is built from live engagements, and none of it teaches a client’s material.
Three audiences, one body of work
The subject matter is the same. What changes is the room — and a session built for a room of consultants is not the session a room of founders needs.
Professional associations
Member-facing professional development
Sessions built for practitioners who have to advise a client on Monday. Every topic produces something reusable — a matrix, a template, a roadmap, a one-page brief an executive committee can sign.
Two to two-and-a-half hours, single or multi-session evening delivery, with shorter webinar variants. English or French.
Accelerators and incubators
Working sessions, not lectures
Ninety minutes in which founders put their own company through the exercise rather than watching someone else’s case. They leave with something written in their own hand — and often the answer is “not yet”, which is the point.
Ninety minutes, cohort-sized, in person or remote. English or French.
Universities and executive education
Graduate and executive teaching
Course delivery in information-systems management and strategy, AI for executives, and adjacent subjects — taught from current engagements, with assessments framed as client-grade deliverables students can put in a portfolio.
In person, hybrid or asynchronous, on the institution’s own term structure. English or French.
For professional associations
Nine topics across three groups, each producing something a member can use on their next engagement. Single or multi-session, in either official language.
Cybersecurity and AI governance
- Generative AI governance — designing, governing and auditing an AI programme, and mapping a use case to the framework that actually applies
- Helping technology clients pass ITSG-33, CCCS Cloud Medium at Protected B, or a federal authority to operate
- Post-quantum readiness — explaining the risk to an executive, inventorying cryptographic exposure, and sequencing a migration
- Compliance for software vendors — SOC 2, ISO 27001 and the Canadian federal profile on one comparison, and where a client should start
Practice building and go-to-market
- Productized consulting — turning repeated engagement patterns into fixed-fee methodology with quality gates
- Sales acceleration for advisory practices — discovery, qualification and a lead-scoring model that fits one service line
- Business-to-business go-to-market for technology clients — scoping and leading a full engagement, deliverable by deliverable
Federal market entry and transformation
- Federal market entry for technology vendors — from supplier registration and clearance sequencing through to the authorization that gates production
- Digital transformation in regulated industries — why programmes stall with a regulator in the room, and the governance designs that survive
For accelerators and incubators
Four ninety-minute working sessions. Founders run their own company through the exercise, and leave with a decision rather than a summary.
Can you source it?
A go-to-market diagnostic
Go-to-market usually breaks in one of three places — the wrong buyer, a claim that cannot be sourced, or a price set on build cost rather than value. Ninety minutes establishes which, using the founder’s own company, and ends with one change committed for that week.
Accelerator and early scale-up, with a product in market and real customer contact.
Found by the machine
Demand generation when buyers ask an AI
Buyers increasingly ask an assistant instead of visiting a website. Founders audit their own company live — and the session is candid that almost none of the ranking mechanism is documented by anyone who operates it, so it teaches what can be observed rather than what is claimed.
Any stage with a live website and an active demand-generation motion.
Is defence actually your market?
A dual-use reality check
A filter rather than an encouragement. Most founders who hear “dual use” are being distracted rather than finding an opportunity, and the session ends with a written go, not-yet or no on their own company. Most honest answers are one of the last two.
Any founder who has said the words “we could be dual use”.
What is actually required right now
The cyber compliance landscape, Canada and the United States
Every founder selling into government or defence eventually gets the same email asking what their security posture is. Founders resolve their own obligation in the room — which regime reaches them, which does not, and what the honest written answer is.
Any founder asked about security by a customer, a procurement officer or an investor. No compliance background assumed.
The teaching record
Stated with its dates, because the most relevant part of it has ended and a reader is entitled to know that without asking.
A four-course federal curriculum, in both official languages
Instructor at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security from April 2023 to November 2025 — approximately 2,000 federal public-service learners across four courses, delivered in English and in French. That engagement has ended; Sagentix has no affiliation with the Centre or with the Communications Security Establishment, and delivers none of their courses.
Still doing the work being taught
The sessions are built from live engagements rather than from a curriculum written once — AI governance and post-quantum programmes, cloud authorization at Protected B, and full go-to-market builds. Method is taught; client material never leaves the engagement.
Bilingual by default, and cleared
French is native and English fluent, so a francophone cohort is a delivery option rather than a special arrangement. A Government of Canada Secret clearance is held, which matters where course material touches regulated or sensitive cases.
Material with a stated shelf life
Two of the compliance sessions carry an explicit re-verification date because the underlying regimes are moving — one programme is suspended pending review, another has levels still in development. Sessions are re-checked against primary sources before delivery rather than re-run from last year’s deck.
What these sessions are not
- Represent, speak for, or deliver courses on behalf of any government body
- Reuse a prior employer’s or client’s course material
- Teach client engagement content — method only, never the client
- Certify or accredit participants
- Deliver vendor product training
Sagentix Advisors Inc. is an independent firm. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any government department or agency, and it delivers no government body’s curriculum.
Questions programme chairs ask
Usually in the first email.
Are you still with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security?
No. That instructor role ran from April 2023 to November 2025 and has ended. Sagentix is an independent advisory firm with no affiliation to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security or the Communications Security Establishment, delivers none of their courses, and speaks for neither. The role is listed here because it is the delivery record behind the training practice, not because it is current.
Can you deliver in French?
Yes, and not as an afterthought. The facilitator is natively bilingual and delivered a four-course federal curriculum in both official languages. Any session on this page runs in English or French, with the workbook and facilitator materials in the language of delivery.
What makes these different from a conference talk?
The accelerator sessions are working sessions rather than lectures — participants use their own company as the case and leave with something written in their own hand, usually a decision rather than a summary. The association workshops are built for practitioners who have to advise a client on Monday, so every one produces a template, a matrix or a roadmap the participant can reuse.
Do you teach content from your client engagements?
Method, yes. Client material, never. Sessions are built from the shape of live work — how an AI governance stack is layered, how a control baseline is tailored, how a go-to-market engagement is scoped — with the client, their data and their findings left out entirely. The same boundary applies to any prior employer or contract: no course material, no assessment content, no third party’s intellectual property.
How long is a typical session?
Association workshops run two to two-and-a-half hours in a single evening, or across two evenings for the multi-session topics, with shorter webinar variants available. Accelerator working sessions run ninety minutes. University teaching follows the institution’s own term structure.
Tell us who is in the room.
The session changes with the audience, so the useful first conversation is about who is attending, what they are expected to do differently afterwards, and how long you have. Topics can be combined, shortened to a webinar, or built to a brief.