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Operational Advisory

The Million-Dollar Audit.
One week. Seven figures found.

Led by a C-suite executive who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty — on the manufacturing floor, in the contracts, the schedules, and the supply chain — to extract real savings and process improvements. We find the cost, the risk, and the fix, in the time it takes most firms to schedule a kickoff call.

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$55.5M
Total annualized cost savings, 3-yr
126%
Gross profit growth, YoY
23%
COGS reduction
James Afara, P.Eng.
James Afara, P.Eng. — Founder
Chief Operating Officer | Professional Engineer | Board Member | Business Strategy & Negotiation
About

An operator first, an advisor second.

Trained as an engineer at Western University and licensed as a Professional Engineer, James has spent twenty years inside operations, not observing them from the outside — from the plant floor at Maple Leaf Foods, through executive roles at SteriPro Canada and Entourage Brands, to leading full operational turnarounds under real pressure.

That background is what the Million-Dollar Audit is built on: an engineer's discipline applied to the P&L, and an operator's instinct for where the real cost is hiding.

The arc — from the floor to the boardroom
Shop Floor
Plant Operations
Executive Leadership
Boardroom
Quarterly Earnings Calls
How it works

Three stages. One week to plan, execute, and deliver.

No lengthy discovery phase, no six-week ramp-up. The review runs on your operation's actual numbers, from day one.

01 / ASSESS

Walk the floor, read the ledger

On-site and financial review of procurement, headcount, COGS, and vendor terms — the places savings actually hide.

Days 1–2
02 / DIAGNOSE

Rank the findings by dollar impact

Every finding is sized, sourced, and sequenced — so leadership knows exactly what to act on first.

Days 3–4
03 / EXECUTE

Hand over a plan you can run

A prioritized action plan with owners and timelines — plus, when needed, the interim leadership to see it through.

Day 5
Sectors

Range across regulated, high-stakes operations.

Different industries, the same discipline: engineering rigor applied to the P&L.

01
Strategy & Corporate
02
Healthcare & Life Sciences
03
Food & Beverage
04
Injection Molding
05
Heavy-Duty Industrial Manufacturing & Painting
06
Agriculture & Medical Cannabis
Experience

Twenty years, built from the ground up.

Chief Operating Officer

Entourage Brands Corp.

Led a full operational turnaround under real distress — cost reduction, gross profit growth, and a resolved eight-figure regulatory exposure.

Chief Development / Business Officer

SteriPro Canada

Executive leadership across sterilization services, driving operational and commercial performance in a regulated, quality-critical environment.

Foundation years

Maple Leaf Foods

Built a career in one of Canada's largest food operations — a first-hand education in process discipline, throughput, and food-safety-grade execution.

Internships

Accuride & Ipex

Started on the plant floor — industrial injection molding, industrial metal painting, and industrial rim painting. The hands-on foundation behind every process-level finding in an audit today.

Services

Solving the problem in front of you.

No fixed packages, no one-size-fits-all retainer. Engagements are built around what the business actually needs, with flexible payment terms — including options tied to the savings and results delivered.

SVC / 01

The Million-Dollar Audit

A one-week operational review that identifies seven-figure savings opportunities across cost, headcount, and procurement — with a prioritized plan to act on them.

SVC / 02

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

Vendor consolidation, contract renegotiation, and supply chain restructuring to bring cost of goods in line without compromising quality or supply.

SVC / 03

Operational Turnarounds

Hands-on leadership through a distressed or underperforming operation — the same work behind the results above, applied to your business.

SVC / 04

Fractional & Interim Executive

Short-term operating leadership for businesses navigating a transition, a gap, or a growth phase that needs an experienced hand at the wheel.

SVC / 05

Audit Readiness

Getting a regulated business genuinely ready for an external, financial, or compliance audit before it arrives — the records, the process discipline, and the answers a regulator or auditor will actually ask for.

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Practical AI, Built on Your Data

A crawl-walk-run approach to AI adoption, not a wholesale overhaul. Crawl starts with the low-risk wins — scheduling, reminders, and automation that cut out repetitive manual data lookups. Walk connects internal AI tools directly to your own data, so answers come from your business, not the open internet. Run embeds custom tools into the day-to-day workflow once the foundation, and the trust, is there.

Get in touch

Let's find what's hiding on the floor and in your numbers.

Available for engagements across strategy, healthcare, food & beverage, and cannabis operations. Reach out to start with a short conversation about where you are today.

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Worked with
Maple Leaf Foods
SteriPro Canada
Trillium Health Partners
Women's College Hospital
Pembroke Regional Hospital
Johnson & Johnson
Entourage Health Corp.
Manitoba Health Authority
Nova Scotia Health Authority
Colourific
Accuride
Ipex