Service-disabled veteran-owned Denver, Colorado Cleared

Strategy your organization can actually execute.

Strategy, change management, strategic communications, and program management for leaders across civilian agencies and the national security community.

  • Navy Intelligence Officer
  • Georgetown MBA
  • PMP
  • Active TS/SCI

Services

Four services, one accountable partner

Strategies usually stall on people problems: leaders drift out of alignment, the workforce resists the new way of working, and schedules slip without anyone raising a flag. We cover the work that decides whether a plan takes hold. Most engagements start with program management support and grow from there.

Strategy

Clear plans and priorities leadership can act on, with measures that show whether it is working.

  • Strategic plans
  • Roadmaps
  • Decision briefs
  • Performance measures

Organizational Change Management

Getting a new system, policy, or reorganization adopted by the people who have to use it.

  • Change impact assessments
  • Adoption plans
  • Training rollouts
  • Resistance management

Strategic Communications

Messaging that earns buy-in from senior leaders, the workforce, and oversight bodies.

  • Leadership messaging
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Internal campaigns
  • Senior briefings

Program and Project Management

Structure, visibility, and steady hands to keep complex programs on schedule.

  • PMO setup and support
  • Integrated schedules
  • Risk registers
  • Governance

About

The person who scopes your work delivers it

I started my career as a Naval Intelligence Officer, briefing senior leaders who needed clear answers on short timelines. That work taught me the skill I've built on ever since: taking complex, competing information and turning it into a decision someone can act on.

After the Navy, I spent more than seven years in federal strategy consulting, first at Booz Allen Hamilton and then at Deloitte Consulting. I built a five-year strategic roadmap of 13 initiatives for a federal agency. I advised a federal Chief Information Officer through an organizational transformation. Most recently, I led the engagement supporting executive-level advisory councils to a Cabinet-level Secretary, and carried that program through a presidential transition without losing continuity.

I founded Potomac & Platte Advisory to bring that experience directly to agency leaders, without the layers of a large firm. I lead every engagement personally, so the person who scopes your work is the person who delivers it.

I'm based in Denver and support clients nationwide, working remotely as an extension of your team, with travel for key sessions when the work calls for it. The firm is named for the Potomac and the South Platte, the two rivers that run through the places that shaped it.

Sam DiSesa
Sam DiSesa, Founder and Principal
  • EducationMBA, Georgetown University
  • ClearanceActive TS/SCI
  • CertificationsProject Management Professional (PMP)Society for Human Resource Management, Senior Certified Professional (SHRM‑SCP)
  • ExperienceDeloitte ConsultingBooz Allen HamiltonU.S. Navy Intelligence Officer

Who we serve

Agencies we know from the inside

We support civilian and national security agencies directly, and as a subcontractor to prime contractors that need a cleared, service-disabled veteran-owned partner.

Department of War

Strategy and program support from a former Navy Intelligence Officer who knows how military organizations make decisions.

Department of Homeland Security

Strategy, communications, and change support for DHS headquarters offices and components.

Department of the Treasury

Program management and executive communications for Treasury offices and bureaus.

Prime contractors

A cleared, veteran-owned teammate for the strategy, communications, change, and PMO work inside larger contracts.

Company data

For contracting officers and primes

Registration details update here as formation and certification are completed.

Legal namePotomac and Platte Advisory LLC
Socioeconomic statusService-disabled veteran-ownedSBA VetCert certification pending
UEIPending SAM.gov registration
CAGE codePending SAM.gov registration
Primary NAICS541611Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
Additional NAICS541618 · 541820Other Management Consulting Services · Public Relations Agencies
Facility clearancePrincipal holds active TS/SCIClassified work performed under a sponsoring prime's facility clearance
LocationDenver, Colorado

Contact

Start a conversation

Teaming on an upcoming pursuit, or need program support now? Reach out directly and we will send our capability statement.

We respond within one business day. For teaming inquiries, include the agency, the solicitation number if one exists, and your expected timeline.