Tart Strategic Consulting Group Strategic Advisory Services in Food Safety, Regulation, and Leadership
Strategic Food Safety & Regulatory Consulting

Helping food safety leaders navigate complex change and build resilient, adaptive systems that endure under pressure.

We partner with industry executives, regulatory leaders, and national organizations to navigate complex, high-stakes regulatory and systems-level change—where technical fixes alone are not enough.

Most food safety initiatives fail not because the technical solutions are unclear, but because the adaptive work is left undone. Whether you are navigating shifting regulatory expectations, modernizing oversight systems, or trying to align people, policy, and practice across complex environments, we help decision-makers translate complexity into coherent strategy—so improvements actually take hold and endure.

Strategy & Systems Capability Building Change Leadership High-Stakes Decisions
Services

How We Can Work Together

Engagements are customized and typically focus on strategic advising, leadership decision support, and systems-level change—ranging from short-term advisory engagements to longer-term transformation initiatives. Below are the types of challenges Tart Strategic Consulting Group helps leaders navigate.

Strategy & Systems

Food Safety Strategy & Systems Design

Focused on building systems that are not only technically sound, but behaviorally sustainable.

  • Strategic diagnostics and gap analyses
  • Modernization roadmaps and decision frameworks
  • Governance, policy, and oversight design
  • Enterprise-wide alignment and continuous improvement strategies
Capability Building

Workforce & Leadership Capability Building

Capability is not just training—it is shared judgment, confidence, and responsibility.

  • Competency framework design and alignment
  • Learning strategy and systems architecture
  • Train-the-trainer model design
  • Assessment, feedback, and performance alignment tools
Change Leadership

Leadership Advising & Organizational Change

Supporting leaders through the human, cultural, and structural dimensions of change that determine whether improvement actually lasts.

  • Executive and senior team advising
  • Strategic alignment and priority-setting facilitation
  • Stakeholder navigation and authority mapping
  • Culture, accountability, and decision clarity
High-Stakes Decisions

Crisis & High-Stakes Decision Support

Strengthening shared expectations and coordination across complex systems—especially when pressure, hierarchy, and risk collide.

  • Incident leadership and decision advising
  • Multi-agency and cross-stakeholder coordination strategies
  • Decision framing under uncertainty
  • Post-incident learning and systems strengthening
Why Choose Us

Why Organizations Partner With Us

Organizations partner with Tart Strategic Consulting Group when they need clear, credible guidance on complex regulatory, systems, or leadership challenges. We bring nearly 30 years of cross-sector experience helping leaders clarify priorities, align stakeholders, and achieve durable, high-impact outcomes. Our work is rooted in deep technical and regulatory expertise and applied at the leadership level to support sound decision-making in complex systems.

What Sets Us Apart

  • Clear communication that translates complexity into actionable strategy and decision clarity
  • A balanced perspective shaped by experience across government, industry, and frontline realities
  • Strategic advisory support that strengthens alignment, governance, and long-term performance
  • Practical recommendations tailored to your organization’s size, risk profile, and operating context
  • Strong national relationships that connect leaders, ideas, and field-tested best practices
  • A people-centered approach that helps organizations navigate change and sustain improvement
Who We Work With

Ideal Partners & Clients

Tart Strategic Consulting Group is a strong fit for leaders and organizations navigating:

  • Complex regulatory or organizational change where technical fixes alone are not enough
  • Modernization of food safety systems to improve consistency, credibility, and long-term performance
  • Alignment challenges across federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and industry partners
  • High-stakes decisions requiring independent, trusted strategic perspective
Expertise

Areas of Expertise

We advise leaders on complex food safety and regulatory challenges that require systems-level thinking, cross-sector alignment, and durable change. Key areas include:

  • Advising leaders on complex regulatory and governance decisions in retail and foodservice environments
  • Guiding modernization of food safety programs, governance structures, and oversight models with a systems lens
  • Supporting prioritization and strategy for reducing foodborne illness risk across operations and regulation
  • Designing workforce capability strategies and competency systems that strengthen organizational performance
  • Shaping governance, policy frameworks, and decision-support structures that enhance long-term clarity and consistency
  • Facilitating cross-sector alignment and collaboration among federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and industry partners
  • Advising leadership teams through high-stakes events, incidents, and pressure situations with strategic clarity
  • Partnering with executives and senior teams to guide change efforts that strengthen organizational resilience and coherence
Change Leadership Framework

Building Stronger Food Safety Systems Through Change Leadership

This multi-part series examines why well-intended food safety change efforts so often stall—and what leaders must do differently to build systems that endure. Drawing on real-world experience, the series explores the adaptive challenges that technical solutions alone cannot solve. Read the full series below.

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Start the Conversation

Share a bit about your organization, your goals, and where you believe support is needed most. We can then schedule a call to determine fit and next steps.

We typically respond within 1–2 business days.