About
StreamCore NexWave started in a spare room in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood in the spring of 2018. Charlotte Stanton had spent the previous twelve years watching organisations spend significant money on technology projects that delivered partial results, and she had a clear theory about why: the strategy work and the implementation work were almost always handled by different people who had not spoken to each other carefully enough. She left her last employer in February of that year with two retained clients and a very specific idea of what she wanted to build.
The first two years were deliberately small. Charlotte took on three to four engagements at a time, worked without subcontractors, and kept detailed notes on every project. A turning point came in late 2019, when a mid-size logistics company in Mississauga brought her in to review a warehouse management system rollout that had gone badly wrong. The vendor had delivered the software on schedule. The problem was that nobody had mapped the existing paper-based processes before the transition, and the new system had been configured around assumptions that did not match how the warehouse actually operated. Charlotte spent four months untangling it. That engagement shaped the diagnostic methodology that StreamCore NexWave still uses today.
Charlotte Stanton spent twelve years in enterprise technology consulting before founding StreamCore NexWave in Toronto in 2018. She held senior advisory roles at two mid-size Canadian firms, where she led digital transformation projects for clients in financial services and municipal infrastructure. A graduate of the Rotman School of Management, she spent a formative two years embedded with a Crown corporation modernising its data architecture before deciding to work independently. Charlotte is a methodical reader of technical documentation and keeps a running notebook of process failures she has observed in the field, which she draws on when diagnosing new client situations. She lives in Toronto's west end and cycles to client sites when the weather cooperates.