Leadership

Churchill Sinclair brings together two complementary strengths honed in the real world, not career consultants: Government-side power and insight, and business-side execution and growth.

Together, we give clients:

  • Access to real political and regulatory intelligence
  • A commercial lens on how to turn that access into results
  • The ability to distill your business objectives into government strategy, and impactful communications campaigns that get results

Hon. Zach Churchill

Partner & Managing Director of Government Relations

Hon. Zach Churchill is a former senior cabinet minister and opposition leader with over 14 years of experience delivering large, complex government programs and navigating high-stakes political and regulatory environments.

He has led some of Nova Scotia’s most demanding portfolios, including Health and Wellness, Education and Early Learning, Municipal Affairs and Emergency Management, Communications Nova Scotia, and Natural Resources. In those roles, he was responsible for multi-billion-dollar systems, province-wide service delivery, and hundreds of active files

His leadership includes:

  • Directing the province’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout and health-system response
  • Expanding cancer care and diagnostic capacity
  • Launching Nova Scotia’s universal pre-primary program
  • Coordinating hundreds of millions of dollars in multi-government infrastructure funding

Zach leads Churchill Sinclair’s work in:

  • Government relations and lobbying — helping clients coordinate engagement with ministers, departments, agencies, and political leadership to move files forward strategically and responsibly.
  • Structuring funding pathways — aligning projects with federal and provincial programs, agencies, and decision-makers to unlock capital.
  • Navigating regulatory risk — anticipating pressure points, managing approvals, and reducing exposure before issues escalate.
  • Managing political exposure — assessing stakeholder risk, sequencing engagement, and protecting projects from avoidable controversy.

His network spans federal and provincial departments, funding agencies, senior civil servants, and political leadership across parties and jurisdictions — giving clients faster access, clearer intelligence, and fewer surprises.

Jordan Sinclair

Partner & Managing Director of Strategic Communications

Jordan Sinclair is a strategic communications leader and entrepreneur specializing in startups, innovation, and high-growth companies. He brings deep experience helping organizations clarify their story, build credibility, and operate confidently in public, investor, and government-facing environments.

His leadership experience includes:

  • Extensive corporate communications experience as Vice President and Chair of the Disclosure Committee for the world’s most visible cannabis company, Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED, NASDAQ:CGC)
  • High stakes communications including navigating hyperscaling to a $20 billion valuation in the lead-up to cannabis legalization and extensive experience supporting M&A with strategic communications
  • Crisis communications experience including product recall, shareholder class action, and corporate restructuring
  • High Profile federal government spokesperson for contentious issues including the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan
  • Stakeholder Advocacy Campaigns fighting unfair taxation on medical therapies
  • Brand PR collaboration with internationally known celebrities from the sports world to the silver screen

Jordan leads Churchill Sinclair’s work in:

  • Corporate and project messaging
  • Media and narrative strategy
  • Issues and crisis communications
  • Executive positioning