Orion Global Advisory – Plan. Prepare. Prosper.

SERVICES

Custom-designed solutions for public and private sector clients working in cross-cultural contexts worldwide. We don't do "one size fits all." We create what you need and deliver it on-site, wherever you are around the globe.

SITE & MARKET EXPANSION

We provide tailored advising for entities expanding their operations into the Middle East and North Africa region. Our services extend far beyond generic write-ups and PowerPoint presentations in your organization's boardroom — we help you explore and assess expansion into new foreign markets through custom-designed, fully guided exploratory trips.

PHILANTHROPIC ADVISING

We conduct research and due diligence on prospective grantees in the Middle East and North Africa region for U.S.-based philanthropists and grant-making foundations. Our decades of experience in the international humanitarian sector, coupled with our knowledge of local languages and cultures, enable us to provide highly effective and personalized advising.

CROSS-CULTURAL TRAINING

Orion Global's multicultural and multilingual team equips clients with the practical skills and culturally specific knowledge needed to facilitate respectful and effective social and business interactions across cultures. Whether you are heading to the Middle East for a short business trip, expanding a humanitarian program into Central Asia, or preparing to relocate your family abroad for several years, we empower you to carry out your mission more effectively, safely, and successfully.

HIGH-RISK ENVIRONMENT TRAINING

No two contexts in the field are ever the same, and our training courses reflect that reality. Our instructors bring a broad range of experience—including foreign service, humanitarian aid, special operations, and intelligence—and are uniquely qualified to understand and assist you. Our primary goal is to help clients feel confident in their ability to handle new, unfamiliar, and high-stress situations anywhere in the world. Ultimately, we aim to make you self-reliant—secure in your own knowledge and competencies, rather than dependent on outside assistance.

Real-world experience, to inspire and guide.

Orion Global team members each bring a unique set of experiences and lessons learned from having spent our entire adult lives in careers focused on making the world a safer, more just, and more peaceful place. Our expertise does not come from behind a desk or in a classroom, but through decades of real-world experience operating in urban slums and refugee camps, political hotspots, and conflict zones worldwide. We understand deeply and viscerally the challenges faced in these contexts and are confident in our ability to help others overcome and thrive. Our multilingual, multicultural team is comprised of humanitarian aid workers, former diplomats, decorated U.S. Military and Intelligence Community veterans, and others. This holistic makeup uniquely qualifies us to assist in planning and preparation as well as the resolution of emergent situations in ways few others can.

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LEADERSHIP

J.D. Pitts

Founder & Principal Advisor

J.D. Pitts is Founder and Principal Advisor for Orion Global Advisory, a firm specializing in equipping clients to operate successfully in cross-cultural contexts worldwide. Prior to founding Orion Global, J.D. lived for 15 years in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Yemen, and Mauritania. While there, his professional experience included both the education and business sectors, as well as over a decade of deep involvement in humanitarian work ranging from small, grassroots operations to large-scale, UN-managed operations.

J.D. has academic degrees in Arab and Islamic studies, is proficient in multiple dialects of Arabic, and has successfully been advising and training expatriates relocating to and working in the Middle East and North Africa region since the early 2000s. J.D.'s diversified work experience across multiple sectors, intimate knowledge and deep understanding of Arab and Islamic culture, and proven track record of overcoming the challenges of living in a new country and culture in order to thrive professionally and personally uniquely qualify him to advise and train in ways few others can.

Originally from Northeast Tennessee, J.D. is equally happy and at home in large Middle Eastern capitals, small town Appalachia, and the Pacific Northwest where he currently resides.

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+1 910.742.0163

Worldwide

info@orionglobaladvisory.com

PLAN. PREPARE. PROSPER.