Contoural - About Us

Why Companies Choose Contoural

Independence
Contoural does not sell or resell any products, takes no product referral fees, nor provides any discovery services such as matter specific document identification, document collection, or document review. Our advice is based solely on the needs of our clients, and not driven by the sale of products.
Cross-Functional Expertise and Approach
Contoural bridges the gap between Legal, Privacy, Records Management, Compliance, IT, Information Security, and other major stakeholders, including various business functions. Our consultants have expertise in these areas, allowing us to work effectively with different groups within an organization, create consensus, and drive projects through execution.
Global
Contoural has developed programs across the globe. We have developed programs for information governance operations in more than 150 countries across the world. We understand local requirements and can integrated these into a global program. We have delivered services in-country across the world.
Innovative Thought Leadership
Contoural is a recognized industry thought leader in records management, information governance and privacy. We are frequent presenters at numerous conferences and webinars, and produce award-winning articles, white papers and guides.
Experience
Contoural has both deep industry-specific and broad, general experience across a wide variety of organizations. Contoural engagements are supported by our common methodology framework, which leverages our extensive client experiences and the subject matter expertise of our seasoned consulting staff – who average more than 25 years of experience in their respective fields.
Target Maturity
We help our clients target the level of maturity for their program, based on legal and regulatory requirements, litigation profile, size, location, complexity, risk tolerance, and cost appropriate for their organization.
Flexibility
Every organization is different, with varying compliance requirements, litigation profiles, size, culture, business need, geography, IT infrastructure, operational constraints, and many other factors. Contoural’s approach is to adapt best practices to each client’s unique circumstances and way of doing business today. We offer our services in flexible, customized, discrete projects.
Transparency
Contoural is transparent and detailed in proposing and executing engagements, outlining all the steps involved and the impact of these activities. Many clients participate side-by-side in our engagements, leveraging them as skills-building opportunities.
Focus on Execution
Compliance, defensibility, and value for all Information Governance programs are the result of successful execution. Contoural’s approach is to concentrate on helping our clients achieve their desired end-state, while helping them avoid pitfalls before realizing program benefits. Our engagements are designed to build consensus around program goals, capability maturity recommendations, strategy, and approach, to maintain momentum, and create stakeholder “wins” along the way.

Our Team

Our team is composed of highly experienced professionals, including attorneys, compliance officers, records managers, information technology professionals and change management experts and organizational development, with an average of fifteen years of experience in their specific field. Many of our consultants previously held positions at corporations and law firms, and include litigators, compliance officers and CIOs across many different industries. We typically approach an engagement with fewer, more experienced team members as this is a more efficient and cost-effective approach.