Who We Are
Built around consequential institutional work.
Quentin & Dundee is an independent institutional strategy and growth firm. We work with organizations, leaders, families and capital partners when an objective requires more than isolated advice or isolated execution.
Our work can begin with strategy, fundraising, communications, research, audience development, partnerships or a specific institutional challenge. The starting point changes. The objective remains the organizing principle.
01 / The Model
The problem determines the team.
Traditional service firms are usually organized around what they sell. Q&D is organized around what the client needs to accomplish. A mandate may require researchers, strategists, fundraising specialists, media operators, creative partners, analysts, institutional advisers or sector experts working together. We build the engagement around the mandate.
02 / Why Q&D
Advice without execution is incomplete. Execution without strategy is expensive.
We believe important institutional work requires both. Q&D connects strategic thinking with implementation and then connects implementation with evidence. That creates a continuous system in which action produces information and information improves the next action.
03 / Our Mission
Institutions for a stronger tomorrow.
Institutions shape education, discovery, health, culture, community, opportunity and public life. Our work is designed to help strong institutions become more capable of fulfilling that role.
Our Approach
Understand deeply. Build deliberately. Execute relentlessly.
We do not begin engagements by selling a predetermined solution.
Principles
How we work matters.
01 — Objective before service
Begin with what must be accomplished.
02 — Institutions keep control
Whenever possible, clients should retain ownership of their accounts, data, donor relationships, systems and institutional assets.
03 — Measure what matters
Reach and activity are not substitutes for outcomes.
04 — Build institutional memory
Each initiative should make the organization more capable than it was before.
05 — Respect the institution
Governance, reputation, compliance and stakeholder trust are strategic assets.
06 — Use specialists
The best team depends on the mandate.
07 — Say less. Know more.
Precision is more valuable than presentation theater.