About Us

Your Partners in Problem Solving

Our Vancouver, B.C.-based strategy advisory firm solves complex and sensitive problems using a hands-on approach, analytical techniques, and customized solutions that deliver lasting value for our clients.

Our Mission

Helping clients solve their toughest challenges through expertise, innovation, passion, curiosity and trust.

Our purpose

To create a positive, lasting impact for our clients, our team and our communities.

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Meet the Team

Our Experts

Our team of problem solvers have diverse backgrounds in business, finance, economics, math, computer science, engineering, and the social sciences, and decades of experience in the public and private sectors.

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Our Values

What Drives Us Forward

The way we work with each other and our clients reflects our seven core values and are what we feel distinguishes us in the market.

Create Lasting Value

We build customized solutions that are precisely what our clients need. We also build capacity in our clients by sharing our methods. We seek to leave a lasting impact.

Seek Truth

We believe lasting value comes from comprehensive understanding. Seek first to understand, question conventional wisdom, push through to find the truth, think independently, and build bullet-proof analysis.

Earn Trust

We cultivate trust through personal connection, one individual at a time. We grow that trust through genuine caring and making others’ priorities our priorities.

Stay Hungry

We are hard-wired to rise to new challenges and pursue our curiosities. We are motivated to pursue excellence for its own sake. Taking personal responsibility comes naturally to us.

Unleash Potential

We feed our people’s passion for growth through personalized development opportunities in positive learning environments.

Remain Humble

We prefer to let our work do the talking. We have a healthy respect for what we don’t know, and are ready to adapt to new information. We believe by helping our clients we are part of something bigger than ourselves.

Win Through Teamwork

Ideas are not hierarchical, and no one has all the answers. To get the best from one another, we create avenues for dialogue that are timely, direct and responsive to build awareness, mutual understanding, and knowledge.

The Deetken Difference

Why Work With Us?

Deetken’s hands-on approach, analytical rigor and emphasis on client collaboration make us a valued partner to our clients on any project.

    Our Expertise
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    our sister company, deetken impact

    At Deetken Insight, we are proud of our shared history and close affiliation with Deetken Impact, a respected Canadian impact investing firm that is driving positive environmental and social change across Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, Deetken Impact oversees 5 funds with $145 million in assets under management, having catalyzed 61 investments in 18 countries. 

    To learn more about Deetken Insight’s affiliation with Deetken Impact and our shared history, click here. To learn more about the origin of the Deetken name, click here.

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    Contact us to learn how Deetken can create lasting impact for you.

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