UW Global Business Brigades

Consulting that travels with the communities.

We are a student-led consulting club at the University of Waterloo, partnering with cooperatives, clinics and nonprofits across Latin America and Canada. Every engagement ends in a measurable outcome, not a slide deck.

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A small, deliberate way of working.

We are not a case competition. We are a working consulting practice operating inside a student club, with the rigour that demands.

Listen first

Each engagement starts on the ground, with the partner, not a hypothesis. We spend the first week in interviews and observation before any analysis lands on paper.

Structure with discipline

Our consulting program borrows from the same frameworks used at top strategy firms, taught through six weeks of casework before anyone is staffed on a live engagement.

Hand over the work

We do not ship recommendations alone. Every deliverable is paired with a transfer plan so the partner can run it without us in the room.

Two engagements we are proud of.

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Healthcare · Honduras
Asociación Salud Rural
2025

Rebuilding the supply chain for three rural clinics

Mapped procurement bottlenecks across a 60 km clinic network and rebuilt the ordering cadence around a shared inventory baseline.

Outcome — Reduced stock-outs of essential medicines by 41% over the following quarter.

Financial services · Panama
Coopera Microfinance
2024

Designing a credit scorecard for first-time borrowers

Built a lightweight risk model and an in-person onboarding script tailored to applicants without formal credit history.

Outcome — Pilot cohort showed a 17% lift in approval rates with no increase in 90-day default.

Looking for a partner on a real problem? We staff a new cohort every term.