Tawâw Strategies

The hardest part of public policy isn't having the courage or the idea. It's the implementation: building the internal alignment, navigating the power dynamics, and sustaining the change after the announcement.

That's the work Tawâw Strategies was built for.

Enter founder and chief strategist Andrea Reimer - two decades in elected office, governance roles in complex organizations, and community organizing taught her that good policy fails not from lack of vision, but from a lack of power literacy. When leaders can't read a room, they can't build the relationships or see the gains they've won. Even the best policies don't grow in that soil. She founded Tawâw Strategies in 2020 to close that gap.

Since then, we've worked on almost 100 projects with more than 40 clients — First Nations, local, provincial, and federal governments, crown corporations and health authorities, labour unions and non-profits, philanthropic foundations and more. The work varies but the through-line doesn't. Clients leave with not just a strategy, but the internal capacity to execute it and protect it.

The leaders we work with aren't short on ideas or even courage. They're short on maps. Helping them build and navigate those maps — and seeing how much more effective they are when they do — is why we do this.

Our work includes:

• Power literacy training
• Power analysis
• Complex facilitation
• Campaign strategy
• Leadership development
• Policy development
• Public speaking and panel moderation

Tawâw Strategies works with people, governments, and organizations who have a bold idea and need to understand how power actually works to move it.