Senior expertise, directly involved in your mandate
Facultas Advisory is a boutique firm advising financial institutions, institutional investors and medium and large businesses on risk management, governance and resilience. We combine senior judgment with practical implementation.
We define each mandate around the decision to support, the work required and clear deliverables.
Hind Abdo, MBA, CFA
Founder and Principal Consultant
Hind brings more than 17 years of experience across banking, institutional investing and risk management. Her career includes banking supervision at OSFI, operational risk leadership, investment and credit risk, and consulting.
This experience helps her challenge assumptions, connect risk findings to business realities and move work forward across teams.
Through Facultas, she works on enterprise risk management, risk appetite, climate risk and scenario analysis, governance and independent challenge. She holds an MBA and is a CFA charterholder.
Our approach
Listen and understand
We start by listening: what needs to be decided or improved, why it matters and who is accountable.
Set priorities and a clear plan
We examine the evidence, challenge assumptions and agree which improvements matter most, and how to deliver them.
Deliver, then refine
We make recommendations actionable and, where agreed, help implement them and refine the work with client feedback.
Our values
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Integrity
We put our clients’ interests first, report findings honestly and protect confidentiality.
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Independence
Facultas is independently owned and not affiliated with any financial institution, consulting firm or product provider. We disclose any relationship that could affect our advice before work begins.
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Client focus
We shape each engagement around your priorities, context and decisions.
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Commitment to excellence
We bring rigorous analysis, careful judgment and attention to practical detail.
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Positive impact
We aim to leave stronger capabilities, clearer accountability and greater resilience.
Working with Facultas
Hind leads engagements and remains directly involved in the substantive work. Specialist contributions are defined where the mandate requires additional expertise, with roles and accountability agreed at the outset.
Based in Montréal, we serve clients across Canada and support selected international mandates. Services are available in English and French.