Berlineaton’s Defence Practice

Our Vision – A world of courageous endeavours.

Our Mission – Berlineaton serves alongside visionary defence leaders striving to build stronger futures for their organizations, and Canada.

Our Value Proposition

Grounded in our vision and mission, we bring the following value to every defence engagement:

  • One of Canada’s most comprehensive teams of military and security advisors, combining expertise in leadership, digital transformation, AI, strategy, and covert operations.
  • A made-in-Canada team of CMC-Canada certified consultants with 30 years of experience and excellence, serving clients across sectors and across Canada.
  • Objectivity with the needs of Canada in mind, acting as trusted advisors with one purpose: to advise and empower our defence clients.
  • A broad network of powerful, experienced, and visionary leaders in the defence community and beyond, providing insights into the strategies, activities, and focus of technology vendors, system integrators, and other partners.
  • A Canadian veteran-owned and -operated firm, combining firsthand military experience with strategic and advisory expertise.
  • A proven track record of success, recognized for integrity, professionalism, and trusted relationships.
  • Embedded capabilities that strengthen defence clients from within and ensure lasting impact.

Our Approach

Berlineaton enables and supports complex change – not by leading it, but by working alongside visionary leaders as trusted partners and confidantes, ensuring they lead and own the change. Each approach is customized to the client’s needs and generally follows this flow:

  • SCAN – Assess the current environment and define the desired end state.
  • DECIDE – Select the course of action and align leadership and resources.
  • ACT – Execute with discipline and deliver tangible results.
  • ADAPT – Review outcomes and adjust to stay on mission.

Our Services

Berlineaton’s services offered to defence clients include:

  • Data Governance
  • AI Strategy
  • Transformation Advisory
  • Governance
  • Implementation Advisory
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Assurance
  • Strategy Development & Execution
  • Process Improvement
  • Leadership Development
  • Facilitation Services
  • Executive Coaching

Our People

Berlineaton is proud to be aligned with a team of uniquely qualified and highly regarded, mission aligned professionals.

David Anderson, BGen Ret is a defence and digital transformation expert for Berlineaton. David’s vast military career included many of the most prestigious postings and challenges, including leading the Canadian Armed Forces Digital Transformation, at the Pentagon as the Liaison Officer between the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Canadian CDS and held multiple overseas command positions.

Joshua Caul, MBA is the CEO of Berlineaton. He has over a decade of experience in Digital Transformation having led and delivered programs worth over $1B across two of the world’s largest firms, holding executive-level roles. In addition to his understanding of digital transformation, he’s a 12-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. His awards include Commanders Commendation while deployed CFT150 and a CDS individual recognition for research related to cultural transformation.

Richard Eaton MA, FCMC is a founding partner of Berlineaton. He is a skilled senior consultant with over 30 years experience in a wide variety of sectors. Richard holds a Masters in Leadership, is a Lean Six Sigma blackbelt and a Certified Management Consultant and enjoys helping his clients build internal capacity to lead ongoing organizational improvements. Richard has over 40 years service as an Infantry Officer in both the British and Canadian armies where he specialized in mountainous, arctic, airborne and commando roles, and led troops on operations in Northern Ireland.

Paul Westlund, PhD is the CEO of C.E.C. Analytics and brings deep understanding for the collection of latent data, the processing and strategies to deploy the data, through AI to inform intelligence. He holds a PhD. In Chemical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Chemistry from McGill. Paul as worked with the US Navy and has deployed his technology internationally on 5 continents. Paul is Berlineaton’s resident expert on AI strategy in Defence and Security.

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  • I have engaged Berlineaton over the years to support a few different initiatives. I have found they bring very strong skills and tools in the areas of strategic planning, change management, facilitation, problem solving, project management, engagement management and team building.

    Associate Deputy Minister,

    BC Government

  • I have had the opportunity to work with Berlineaton on various occasions over the last 17 years.  During this time I have always been impressed with their professionalism, organizational skills, and project management. 

    Ed Hoffman, Regional Director,

    BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy

  • "Berlineaton’s facilitation enabled our team to make meaningful improvements, ensuring better service accessibility for those who need it most."

    Executive Director,

    Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction

  • Overall, I would highly recommend Berlineaton for anyone seeking superior results in the field of facilitated, team-based process improvement that blend a focus on more task focused business results with the team, and overall people, engagement required to promote higher levels of ownership and execution success.

    Executive Director,

    BC Government

  • Berlineaton’s dynamic, appreciative, invigorating approach to continuous improvement was well received by my staff. Equally importantly, we have received encouraging feedback from our Ministry’s Executive, as well as our Health Authority clients who are excited to partner with us on this journey.

    Executive Director,

    BC Ministry of Health

  • We appreciated the opportunity to come together to provide input about our future direction. It was a great collaborative environment where people were comfortable sharing their thoughts.

    IaTS Team Member,

    Pacific Blue Cross

  • I had worked with the Berlineaton team, in the past and knew that their values, style, and approach would fit and add significant depth to my project team. Berlineaton have a strong understanding of our people and business built on previous experience consulting in our mills. Their values and principles of people-centered leadership are also very aligned with the values of our organization. They worked with us on the Pulp EDGE project to ensure that we continue to integrate the many critically important aspects of people-driven process improvements and change leadership into the Pulp EDGE project.

    Sotirios Korogonas, General Manager, Business Transformation,

    Canfor

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