Credentials
In business since 1999
PMP — Project Management Institute
Registered Neutral — Georgia ODR
FINRA Certified Arbitrator
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Consulting
Executive Facilitation
$3,500 – $8,000 / day

Leadership teams consistently underperform in their own strategic planning and alignment sessions. When the facilitator is also a stakeholder, political dynamics distort outcomes, dominant voices crowd out dissent, and agreement is performed rather than reached.

Pactus Advisory provides executive facilitation for high-stakes sessions where neutrality and structured process produce better outcomes than internal facilitation.

Typical engagements

  • Annual strategic planning offsites — aligning leadership on priorities, resources, and accountability
  • Leadership team retreats — addressing dysfunction, rebuilding trust, and clarifying roles
  • Board and governance sessions — facilitating difficult decisions with clarity and documentation
  • Cross-functional alignment workshops — IT vs. business, sales vs. operations, finance vs. delivery
  • Merger and acquisition integration — aligning two organizational cultures and leadership teams
  • Post-conflict team rebuilding — restoring working relationships after significant disputes

What's included

  • Pre-session stakeholder interviews and agenda design
  • Full-day facilitation with structured process and decision documentation
  • Post-session summary with agreed outcomes, owners, and timelines
  • 30-day follow-up to assess implementation and accountability
Ideal for

Organizations with $5M–$500M revenue facing strategic misalignment, leadership team conflict, or cross-functional disputes that internal meetings haven't resolved.

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Consulting
Project Recovery Consulting
$5,000 – $15,000 / month

Most project failures aren't technical. They're governance failures, scope disputes, vendor conflicts, and stakeholder misalignment that accumulate until recovery becomes crisis management. By the time leadership acknowledges the problem, options are limited and costs are mounting.

David Kennedy's most complex engagement: restructuring a $160M cost / $120M revenue distressed technology project — replacing governance structures, renegotiating scope and delivery terms, and aligning client and vendor interests to achieve full financial and operational recovery.

What we fix

  • Technology implementation programs over budget, behind schedule, or delivering no value
  • Vendor relationships that have broken down into conflict and legal posturing
  • ERP, CRM, and SaaS deployments with near-zero adoption despite significant investment
  • Fixed-price contracts where scope dispute has stalled delivery and escalated costs
  • Government and enterprise delivery programs facing contract termination risk

Our approach

  • Rapid diagnosis — identify root cause (technical, organizational, or contractual) within 2 weeks
  • Governance restructuring — replace failing oversight with clear accountability and decision rights
  • Vendor renegotiation — restructure contracts, scope, and delivery terms to reflect reality
  • Stakeholder realignment — rebuild trust between client and delivery organization
  • Recovery execution — sustained engagement through stabilization and delivery restart
Ideal for

Organizations with technology projects in distress, vendor relationships in crisis, or delivery programs where internal escalation has failed to produce resolution.

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Consulting
Fractional Dispute Officer
$2,500 – $6,000 / month

Growing organizations generate disputes — with vendors, clients, partners, and internally. Most handle them reactively, without consistent process or governance, until they become expensive legal or operational problems.

A Fractional Dispute Officer is a retained part-time engagement that builds the organizational capacity to prevent, manage, and resolve conflict before it escalates — at a fraction of the cost of internal headcount or legal fees.

What we manage

  • Vendor and supplier escalation protocols — structured process for handling delivery failures
  • Client dispute early warning — identifying and addressing dissatisfaction before it becomes a claim
  • Internal conflict framework — HR-independent process for resolving cross-functional disputes
  • Contract dispute management — monitoring and managing scope, billing, and performance disputes
  • On-call resolution support — direct availability when situations escalate unexpectedly

Engagement structure

  • Monthly retainer — 1–2 days of engagement per month
  • Quarterly dispute review — assess active issues, closed cases, and prevention gaps
  • Ad hoc escalation support — available by phone or on-site when needed
  • Annual governance review — update protocols to reflect organizational changes
Ideal for

Organizations with $5M–$100M revenue that manage multiple vendor and client relationships, are growing rapidly, or have experienced recurring disputes that consumed significant management attention.

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Consulting
Conflict Resolution Training
$2,500 – $5,000 / workshop

Most managers have never been trained to identify, de-escalate, or resolve conflict constructively. They either avoid it until it explodes or escalate immediately to HR or legal — both of which are expensive, slow, and damaging to relationships and culture.

Pactus Advisory's conflict resolution workshops build practical, applicable skills that reduce the organizational cost of conflict at every level.

Workshop formats

  • Half-day manager workshop — conflict identification, de-escalation, and resolution basics
  • Full-day leadership workshop — advanced negotiation, mediation techniques, and governance design
  • HR team certification — structured process for managing internal workplace conflict
  • Executive cohort — conflict management for senior leaders in high-stakes environments
  • Custom program — designed around your organization's specific conflict patterns

Outcomes

  • Managers who can handle conflict at the source before it escalates
  • Reduced HR and legal involvement in routine workplace disputes
  • Clear, documented process for escalation and resolution
  • Better vendor and client relationship management at the team level
Ideal for

Organizations investing in manager development, experiencing recurring team or departmental conflict, or preparing for rapid growth where conflict management capacity will be tested.

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Most engagements begin with a free 30-minute consultation. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest conversation about whether Pactus Advisory is the right fit.

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