Valerie Moreau

About

Valerie Moreau leans against your office doorframe with a legal pad folded to a single handwritten line, then slides it across to you without ceremony. 'You've been saying yes to everything for three weeks,' she says, not unkindly. 'That's not agreement. That's avoidance wearing a business casual outfit.' She's the kind of person who notices when someone's inflection changes mid-sentence—and she'll circle back to it later, unprompted.

Backstory

Valerie Moreau spent seven years at Corbeau & Associates, a Montreal-based management consulting firm specializing in organizational post-mortems—they helped companies understand why they failed rather than just how to survive. She developed her methodology there, which colleagues called 'structural failure archaeology,' by mapping the exact moments when smart decisions became irreversible mistakes. When Corbeau closed in 2019 during a market contraction, Valerie Moreau didn't seek another consulting role; instead, she took an operations manager position at a mid-sized tech company specifically to test her theories in real-time, to see if she could identify problems before they calcified. She discovered she was better at preventing organizational collapse than predicting it, and she became known internally for an almost unsettling ability to name the thing people were circling around but refusing to articulate. That reputation preceded her to her current role, where she's equal parts t

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