A business with no clear roadmap or strategy can easily lose its direction and fall into serious problems. With time, mistakes will pile up, opportunities will start missing, and employees can become deeply frustrated and disengaged. As a result, productivity drops, stress rises, and even the most promising business can struggle to move forward and grow.
This is exactly where UVIDI Management Solutions comes in. Led by Dragica Grbavac Robinson, President and Managing Director, UVIDI brings Strategy, Change, and Risk together in a way that creates measurable value. The focus is not just on planning but on execution—making sure strategies turn into results, change strengthens performance, and risks are managed before they become setbacks.
Under Dragica’s leadership, UVIDI has guided organizations to:
- Increase decision-making speed and confidence.
- Align people, processes, and systems for greater effectiveness.
- Reduce costly delays by addressing risk early.
- Build cultures where teams understand their role and act decisively.
Proprietary tools like the Risk Delta System and Capabilities Accelerator System (CAS) make complexity simple, turning challenges into opportunities and helping businesses grow with resilience.
Why UVIDI Exists
“Uvidi” means “Insight” in Croatian. The name reflects the company’s mission: to illuminate what feels complex, uncover hidden opportunities, and give leaders the clarity to act.
UVIDI was born from a pivotal moment in Dragica Grbavac Robinson’s career—taking a bold risk that challenged the status quo, only to realize how fear of uncertainty can limit progress. That experience shaped her philosophy: businesses don’t just need plans—they need insight, confidence, and the courage to move forward.
Since 1994, UVIDI has helped organizations simplify complexity, embrace change, and deliver tangible results.
Achievements that Speak Through Outcomes
UVIDI’s work has left a mark across industries and continents.
Key highlights include:
- Executive Education in Strategy, Change, and Risk: Programs developed by Dragica have trained leaders for over 20 years, turning knowledge into action in high-stakes environments.
- Corporate Partnerships Across North America, Europe, and the Middle East: UVIDI has strengthened governance, aligned strategy with execution, and enhanced resilience for financial institutions, mining firms, and more.
- Industry Influence: Dragica Grbavac Robinson has shaped industry thinking on operational risk, corporate governance, and strategic execution through conferences, publications, and advisory work.
Each achievement is tied to a simple outcome: giving clients the tools and confidence to act decisively, no matter how complex the challenge.
Real Stories, Real Results
These examples highlight how UVIDI’s work goes beyond frameworks and theory:
Tech Expansion Case
A technology company wanted to enter the financial services space but lacked the right processes. UVIDI worked with them to realign their strategy, restructure decision-making, and create a culture of shared accountability.
- Outcome: Faster product launches, higher-quality solutions, and a workforce energized by seeing how their contributions mattered.
Global Mining Client
Operating across three international sites, including high-risk regions, this company faced capability gaps that were slowing progress. UVIDI assessed both systems and people to design a better structure.
- Outcome: Productivity rose, burnout dropped, and leadership gained visibility into risks before they became crises.
In both cases, success came from the same principle: align people, processes, and systems under one strategic direction.
What Sets UVIDI Apart
Where many firms treat strategy, change, and risk as separate issues, UVIDI integrates them into one cycle of performance:
- Strategy sets the direction.
- Change builds the ability to adapt.
- Risk ensures resilience along the way.
This integration is powered by proprietary tools:
- Risk Delta System: Makes risks visible early so action can be taken before damage occurs.
- Capabilities Accelerator System(CAS): Gives leaders a clear picture of how well their people, processes, and systems are aligned.
- Risk Tolerance: Helps boards and executives make balanced, informed decisions.
These frameworks are not just theoretical—they’ve been tested in boardrooms, across industries, and in real-world projects. They give leaders something invaluable: clarity, confidence, and results.
Growth and Impact
UVIDI has steadily expanded, serving clients across financial services, mining, healthcare, technology, utilities, and municipalities. A dedicated core team of 15 professionals, supported by 12 contract experts, delivers solutions across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Future Plans
UVIDI is currently not planning for acquisitions but is focusing on building collaborations through its Certified Partner Network. This program will certify independent consultants, boutique firms, and larger corporate partners to use UVIDI’s proprietary tools, which have been developed over the past 20 years. All licensed partners will receive full training, ongoing support, and regular updates to ensure lasting value.
Client Testimonials
The following testimonials showcase the tangible impact of UVIDI’s expertise, highlighting how Dragica’s guidance has helped clients achieve measurable success and strengthen organizational performance:
“Our Board and Executive team wanted to put in place enhanced controls in our operational areas using risk assessments and risk management tools. We turned to Dragica. Not only was she responsive and supportive in our needs, she led our management team through a tailored approach. The tools and techniques that we learned with Dragica Grbavac Robinson were an excellent foundation.”
Barry Delaney, SVP, Corporate Secretary & Risk Services, Envision Financial
“I had the pleasure of working with UVIDI on 2 important projects for RBC Financial. The largest of these was to provide solutions for a series of outstanding high-impact changes in the industry and to take advantage of the technical advances. Dragica’s skills and business knowledge were a great asset, particularly through the process of developing a test lab and action plans to execute our strategy. She had the initiative, competency, and capability to lead the program.”
Peter Broster, Vice President, RBC Financial
“Dragica has acted as a channel expert and representative of our company, speaking at international conferences, participating on our behalf at industry forums regarding our direction and the industry’s needs. She worked with our internal subject matter experts to understand our internal strengths and how these will be integrated with overall processes and a technology solution. We are executing her recommended strategy with great effect.”
Mike Dufton, President & CEO, Volaris Group/Vencora
“Using the UVIDI Tools provides excellent perspectives for how to discover where operational risks lie in your organization. The CAS framework and methodology provide the strategic & operational alignment graph and inter-relationship. It is taking a theoretical approach to risk management with practical application and making it useful. Enterprise approach to risk management is most helpful!”
Senior Risk Advisor, Barrick Gold
“Using the alignment approach helped me to understand how it can be applied to see the sources of risk in our work, and most worthwhile for creating potential scenarios related to our industry. It is most useful to understand how to take away the complexity of some gaps that may be overwhelming. It supplements an excellent structured thought process to identify and work through risk (model).”
Vice President, Tembec Inc
Set Clear Objectives and Track Success
Dragica Grbavac Robinson emphasizes a few key principles that emerging leaders and professionals can follow to navigate complex business environments successfully:
- Focus on outcomes, not just activity. Know what success looks like before diving into tasks, and pay attention to the process along the way.
- Keep it simple: 3–4 clear goals. Define them well and understand exactly when you’ve achieved them.
- Let effectiveness guide you. Don’t just tweak broken work—fix the flow, decision-making, and clarity first, then think about automation.
- Treat strategy, change, and risk as one team. Strategy shows direction, change helps you adapt, and risk keeps you honest. Align them on the same rhythm.
- Invest in the capabilities of people who will design the systems to drive results.
- Make your processes transparent and evidence-based. Boards will expect it; operational speed, ecosystems, and excellence win the day.
- Lead with integrity. Trust is your growth engine and cheapest capital. Shortcuts may look easy, but they multiply risk; integrity builds your brand.
- Protect thinking time. Give yourself and your team space to reflect—calm leaders make better decisions.
These principles create a practical framework for making smarter decisions, managing risk well, and growing sustainably.
Dragica’s Media Presence
Dragica Grbavac Robinson has been a prominent voice in thought leadership and public engagement:
- Her last major interview before COVID was with Bloomberg on Iran at the Dawn of Foreign Investment Opportunity.
- She was a partner at Delta-Arjan Advisory, exploring investment opportunities in Iran (firm no longer operating).
- She’s spoken at major conferences, including the Casualty Actuarial Society (ERM Symposium 2012; CANE 2013) and McMaster World Congress 2004, on operational risk and corporate governance.
- Between 2005 and 2015, she regularly led workshops and spoke at The Conference Board of Canada on risk management.
- Her work has been published in PMI, The Canadian Manager Magazine (CMM), and since COVID, she shares insights globally on Uvidi.ca, Medium, and Substack.
- As Global Program Director at the Schulich Executive Education Centre, she led executive programs, developed faculty, chaired advisory boards, and earned recognition in healthcare and utilities through the Ontario Hospital Association and MEARIE Group.
Simple Yet Powerful Mantra
Dragica Grbavac Robinson’s guiding principle is: “What fires together, wires together.”
This means that repeated, coordinated actions build lasting capabilities. When people, processes, systems, and decisions work in harmony, new habits and results naturally form.
She explains it in boardrooms as:
“Pair key activities that drive performance so they can be repeated, reinforced, and scaled.”
This method helps reduce delays in decision-making and increases overall effectiveness, though how it’s applied can vary by organization.
Dragica Grbavac Robinson’s 5 Impactful Business Mantras
- Balance is Leadership: Protect your time and capacity to maintain performance and prevent burnout.
- Clarity Builds Resilience: Know your strategy, adapt to uncertainty, and anticipate risks.
- Effectiveness First: Focus on doing the right things, build capabilities, then optimize.
- Unify Strategy, Change, and Risk: Integrate these to make smarter decisions and enhance performance.
- Integrity Compounds Success: Lead with honesty, protect human capacity, and align people and systems.
