Located 20 minutes west of Calgary, Alberta Canada
About Cornerstone Consulting Inc.
Cornerstone Consulting Inc. is an Alberta-based enterprise architecture and transformation advisory firm helping executives, CIOs, sponsors, and architecture leaders reduce transformation risk, strengthen architecture governance, and align strategy with execution.
Cornerstone has been providing independent, customer-side advisory for organizations undertaking complex ERP, SAP, Oracle, digital transformation, and enterprise modernization initiatives since 2010. Its role is to help leaders see risks, dependencies, trade-offs, architectural impacts, and decision implications before they become expensive commitments. Cornerstone positions itself as a confidence layer for executive sponsors and architecture leaders, independent from implementation partners and focused on protecting business outcomes.
Led by Darin Paton, Cornerstone brings more than 25 years of experience across enterprise architecture, business architecture, ERP transformation, governance, operating model alignment, and executive advisory. The firm helps organizations translate strategic intent into practical architecture, governance, roadmap, and delivery choices that teams can execute with clarity and discipline.
Cornerstone’s approach is practical, independent, and outcome-focused. Rather than adding unnecessary bureaucracy, Cornerstone helps organizations establish the right level of architecture structure, decision discipline, standards, guardrails, and governance to improve delivery outcomes while keeping momentum.
At its core, Cornerstone exists to help leaders make better transformation decisions. The firm supports clients by clarifying what must be true, what risks need to be addressed, what decisions must be governed, and how business, data, application, security, integration, and technology choices need to align to achieve measurable business value.
About Darin Paton
Darin Paton is the Owner of Cornerstone Consulting Inc., an Alberta-based enterprise architecture and transformation advisory firm serving organizations across complex business and technology change.
With more than 35 years of experience, Darin has worked across hands-on delivery, enterprise architecture, business architecture, ERP transformation, SAP and Oracle initiatives, architecture governance, and executive advisory. He helps organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution by bringing structure, clarity, and decision discipline to complex transformation environments.
Darin works with executive sponsors, CIOs, business leaders, architects, and delivery teams to reduce risk, improve alignment, and strengthen confidence in major decisions. His work focuses on clarifying business outcomes, assessing architecture fit, identifying dependencies, surfacing trade-offs, validating assumptions, and ensuring that transformation programs remain connected to measurable value.
His advisory style is grounded in practical experience, independent thinking, and a strong commitment to stewardship. Darin believes architecture should not exist as paperwork or theory; it should help leaders make better decisions, protect investment, guide delivery, and enable organizations to move forward with greater confidence.