THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK
Decades of experience.
One shared mission.
The Stratcolab team brings over 30 years of hard-won, cross-sector expertise.
At Stratcolab, the practitioners you meet in the first conversations are the same ones who lead your engagement from start to finish. No hand-offs. No surprises.
THE LEAD TEAM
The people you'll work with - and what they bring.
"Resilient organizations don't just survive disruption — they're built to learn from it, adapt through it, and emerge stronger on the other side."
ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY · RESILIENCE STRATEGY · CAPACITY BUILDING · UTILITY SECTOR
Dave is a highly skilled practitioner and facilitator of agile leadership and capacity building. With more than 30 years of experience creating agile and engaged organizations, he has led work across aligned vision, collaboration, assessment, facilitation, and coaching — from organizations serving twelve million people to those serving fewer than twenty-five households.
MANAGING PRINCIPAL
Dave Siburg, MPlan
David Siburg does not arrive as an expert who dispenses solutions. He arrives as a practitioner who has spent a career of learning, from a small water cooperative in rural Washington, from community leaders in Namibia, from executive directors navigating organizational crisis, from faith communities wrestling with mission drift, from public servants trying to serve equitably under resource constraint. He has led and failed, rebuilt and succeeded, and carried humility as a professional asset through all of it.
He believes that the people experiencing any given situation are the experts. His job is to help them surface what they already know, name what they cannot yet see, and build the relationships and strategies they need to move forward together. He is, in the deepest sense, a capacity builder, not because he brings capacity to organizations, but because he helps organizations discover and deploy the capacity they already have.
If you are a community, a non-profit organization, a faith community, or any organization animated by a commitment to the common good, and you are asking hard questions about your direction, your culture, your sustainability, or your ability to serve your mission in a changing world, David is the kind of practitioner who will walk alongside you through the questions, not offer you premature answers.
"He spent many years managing adverse consequences. Now he concentrates on preventing them."
SECUIRTY & RESILIENCE · HOMELAND SECURITY · INSIDER THREAT · CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Nick is the consummate pracademic — he teaches, conducts research, and always looks to apply theory in practical and useful ways. With 30+ years leading, teaching, and researching water security and homeland security initiatives, he brings an unusually deep combination of field experience and academic rigor to every engagement.
PRINCIPAL
Nick Catrantzos, MA-CHDS
He has taught principles of homeland security and emergency management online for a business school of the University of Alaska. And in 2017 was selected for the founding cohort of an experimental think tank initiative, Hsx: Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security, Naval Postgraduate School.
Formerly head of security for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, he contributed to three post-9/11 national water security panels organized by the Environmental Protection Agency, developing many of EPA’s security guidelines (i.e. “features for an active and effective security program”), and ultimately earning the 2007 Boyd Award of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies for “extraordinary personal service in the drinking water field and in the industry’s efforts to develop tools to secure the nation’s water supplies.” During this period, he also served on the board of the California Utilities Emergency Association, a leading model of the public-private partnership (co-located with CalEMA offices in Rancho Cordova).
Nick has served as a Senior Security Consultant for Triad Consulting and Security Design Group, developing risk assessments, crafting security policies, and writing security business plans for a number of large water utilities. He has also directed operations for two international security consultancies, Control Risks and Kroll Associates, as well as for a smaller security consulting firm. Nick also led public sector vulnerability assessments under ManTech Security Technologies with diverse utilities and other critical infrastructure providers.
In 2009, he graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School’s Homeland Security Master’s Program where he won top writing honors for his thesis on insider threats to critical infrastructure.
In May 2012, CRC Press published his textbook, Managing the Insider Threat: No Dark Corners. Prior to this work, the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) commissioned and published his research report, Tackling the Insider Threat. Additionally, Nick’s work has frequently appeared in best practices volumes (Security Business Practices Reference: Professional Practices for Security Managers Seeking to Improve their Organizations, by ASIS) in national or ANSI standards on facility physical security (2009) and workplace violence prevention and intervention (2011).
Nick earned a Lifetime Designation of Certified Protection Professional in 2011.
Earlier in his career, Nick served as an intelligence officer and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for outstanding service to two government agencies. He was later recognized by Lockheed corporate headquarters for applying his intelligence skills to locating company hostages trapped in Iraq, delivering daily threat briefings to operating companies in the build-up to the first Gulf War, and debriefing Lockheed hostages upon their safe return.
He spent many years managing adverse consequences. Now he concentrates on preventing them.
"Lasting change is possible through community development and community organizing together — one alters the physical infrastructure of a place, the other builds the relationships and leaders who make change stick."
URBAN PLANNING · COMMUNITY ORGANIZING · LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT · EQUITY
Thomas has spent a couple decades pairing community development with community organizing — two disciplines that are too often practiced in isolation. His work brings together people's experiences, identities, and stories to build stronger relationships and more capable leaders, while creatively imagining what communities can make possible for themselves.
PRINCIPAL
Thomas Francis-Siburg, AICP, MURP, MSW
Thomas has worked with domestic and international government, nonprofit, and faith-based organizations — from informal settlements in Namibia to Somali refugee youth and low-income African American families in Minnesota, to parish outreach programs in Washington State, to resilient infrastructure planning in the Florida Keys.
Thomas holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota, and is an AICP-certified urban planner. He is a credentialed professional who leads with the belief that communities already hold the knowledge and capacity to transform — and that the work is to build the conditions where that power can emerge.