John C. Brenke is the managing director of Strat SPA LLC, a consultancy which specializes in
understanding and leveraging complexity to improve organizational strategy. John is a native
Mississippian with 23+ years of demonstrated thought leadership in strategy and business development
functions at Fortune 100 Companies.

John enhances the quality of strategic action by expanding the enterprise’s understanding of its
possibilities. He leverages exhaustive research and innovative analysis to foster input and buy-in of
stakeholders; augments them with a deep sense of history, positive imagination, and persuasive
narratives, and is known for his innovative graphics, compelling frameworks, and the ability to explain
complexity without distorting or simplifying it.

John serves as trusted advisor and complex problem solver to CEOs and senior executives, and is relied
on to transform ambiguously or ill-defined strategy projects into value adding ones, thus maximizing
enterprise’s mission, vision, profits, revenues, and share value.
John formed Strat S.P.A. in 2021. The Strat S.P.A. logo, the winged horse Luna, was John’s imaginary
childhood friend. Strat S.P.A. provides:

➢ Strategy Project Management – Conceives and manages major strategy projects exploring
broad range of issues faced the firm’s top management, including force structure and
corresponding demand, valuations, labor availability, and pricing. Leads teams of high caliber
analysts in managing projects to successful conclusion.
➢ Innovative Frameworks and Graphics – Supports decision makers in understanding complex
possibilities and trade-offs via engaging narratives, presentations, and war rooms.
Accomplished in bounding and summarizing complexity without trivializing or distorting it.
➢ Statistics, Simulations, Data Mining, Quantitative Analysis – Applies a wide range of
quantitative methods to test managerial assumptions on strategic issues. Confirms, refutes or
provides nuance to theories, as well as develop new theories.
➢ Executive Problem Solving – Skilled in reducing “noise” to confront central issues. Incisive
grasp of complex possibilities and trade-offs. Skilled facilitator.
➢ Business Development – Expertise in realizing new business opportunities by holistic
assessment of emerging missions supported by precisely focused qualitative and quantitative
analysis.