Universities
We help departments, faculties, and central offices plan student consultations, improve governance processes, and work with student leaders in a way that is clear, realistic, and credible.
Consulting for students, by students
Strategy and governance advice for campus-facing work.
Kite Strategy works with students' unions, universities, and organizations that need to understand student governance, student politics, and campus decision making.
About Kite Strategy
We understand how student organizations actually work.
Kite Strategy is a student-led advisory practice founded by Dominic Shillingford and Amir Moghaddam. We help clients make sense of student governance, campus politics, non-profit rules, and the practical details that often decide whether a plan works.
Our work sits between strategy and operations. A university may need a better way to consult students. A company may want to approach students' unions without wasting their time or misunderstanding their role. A students' union may need cleaner bylaws, a better committee system, or a neutral chair for a difficult meeting.
Who we support
Advice for organizations that work with students.
Companies
We advise organizations that want to engage students or students' unions. That can include stakeholder mapping, campus norms, risk assessment, and practical advice on how to approach student groups.
Students' unions
We support executives, boards, councils, and committees with strategy, governance reviews, meeting support, policy drafting, and bylaw updates.
Solutions
Strategy work with real governance knowledge behind it.
We can help with a focused memo, a full governance review, a meeting that needs independent support, or a set of documents that needs to be cleaned up and made usable.
Strategic consulting
We help clients define the decision in front of them, identify the people affected by it, compare options, and turn loose ideas into a workable plan.
Governance consulting
We advise on board structure, executive roles, committee mandates, decision rights, accountability, member consultation, and the habits that make governance easier to run.
CNCA and ONCA advice
We work with the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, and the way those rules interact with students' union bylaws and university practice.
Bylaw and policy development
We draft and revise bylaws, policies, terms of reference, standing rules, officer descriptions, election procedures, and other internal governance documents.
Chairing and meeting design
We provide independent chairing, agenda planning, procedural advice, and meeting design for boards, councils, committees, and general meetings.
Minutes and records
We prepare minutes and decision records that are clear enough to use later. The goal is simple: people should be able to tell what was decided, who is responsible, and what comes next.
How engagements work
Clear scope, useful documents, and practical next steps.
Understand
We start with the decision, the people involved, the documents already in place, and the constraints that cannot be ignored.
Build
We prepare the material the work needs: recommendations, options, draft language, meeting plans, governance maps, or decision memos.
Follow through
We help move the work into practice through revisions, meetings, adoption processes, stakeholder communication, and records.
Meet the team
A partnership focused on student governance and strategy.
Kite Strategy is led by Dominic Shillingford and Amir Moghaddam. Our work draws on student leadership, governance drafting, meeting procedure, and hands-on experience with campus organizations.
Dominic Shillingford
Partner, strategy and governance
Dominic works on governance structure, policy drafting, meeting procedure, and organizational strategy. He is a University of Toronto mathematics graduate student and has served in graduate student governance, including as UTGSU Vice-President Internal. His work has included Board and AGM planning, bylaw and policy development, caucus and course union oversight, referenda processes, student group recognition, records systems, and housing-related advocacy. He helps clients turn unclear institutional problems into clear options, usable documents, and practical next steps.
Amir Moghaddam
Partner, student engagement and operations
Amir works on student engagement, stakeholder relationships, advocacy strategy, and implementation. He is a University of Toronto biomedical engineering graduate student, Vanier Scholar, Connaught Public Impact Fellow, and President of the UTGSU. He brings experience in student advocacy, public-facing communication, and turning campus needs into practical initiatives.
Start a conversation
Need help with strategy, governance, policy, or meetings?
Send a short note about your organization, the problem you are trying to solve, and the kind of support you are considering. We can help narrow the scope.