b'BUSINESS RECOVERY INDIGENOUSBy Andrew BrooksBUSINESS RECOVERYSuperior Strategies diversified its service offering to cope with theA d d r e s s i n g t h eslowdown in its consulting and project management businessc o n n e c t i v i t y i s s u e , i m p r o v i n gIdB efore COVID you neverof the lockdown measures adopted in the would have caught meearly days of the COVID-19 pandemic a c c e s s t oon a Friday afternoon,last spring. Michael Jacobs says as c a p i t a l a n dthe interview begins. CIPS, located on the Curve Lake First s e e k i n g n e wbe gone on the road travellingNation near Peterborough, Ontario, or finishing up my weeks worth ofdidnt escape the financial shock as p a r t n e r s h i p smeetings. Now Im in the office everyone project after another was put on dayand thats a big support for ahold in March and April. It was prob-c o u l d m e a nconsultancy like ours. ably mid-May before First Nations started a b o o m f o rAsCEOofCambiumIndigenousto figure out how they were going to get ProfessionalServices(CIPS),whichback to work, so we lost a lot of revenue. I n d i g e n o u sprovides Indigenous consulting andBut we had cash in reserve, and we knew professionalengagementservices,wed be fine once things opened back e n t r e p r e n e u r s Jacobs directly experienced the impactsup. So we werent worried, Jacobs says. 40A CCAB PUBLICATION2021'