Our Purpose

A human-first approach to government contracting

RiverNorth partners with government agencies who aren’t afraid to challenge the current in support of their mission, and who want to use IT modernization as an opportunity to shake up the status quo, rethink old ways of working, and build faster and more productive ways of serving their customers.

If you want a yes-man or paper-pusher who’ll build pretty powerpoints, RiverNorth is not for you. 

If you want a partner who will challenge you to think differently about how technology and strategy can meaningfully transform your organization, we’re on the same page.

Watch the video above to hear from a few of our partners at Maven Group and Citizant.

Our Approach

Diving under the surface

Many consultancies can identify and react to surface-level symptoms of a problem.


They bill hours for superficial fixes that never truly address the underlying cause before they set sail for their next adventure, leaving your organization perpetually running into the same problem and attempting to solve it over and over again.

RiverNorth dives deep to identify what’s causing the root obstruction of flow and efficiency for your organization.


We then fix it at the source, which often results in ways of working you never thought possible. In the process, we save our clients and their customers massive amounts of time, money, and energy.

Why We Exist

Fulfillment has a cumulative impact

Our people want to make big, systemic impacts on everyday Americans, and there is no better way to do that than serving government clients.

In truth, we knew who we wanted to be before we knew who we wanted our clients to be. 

We didn’t start RiverNorth to maximize profit. We started RiverNorth to create a home for people who wanted to bring their whole selves to work to solve challenging problems and support worthy causes. Because humans who reach their potential want to help others do the same. 

When we looked for ways to make big, systemic impacts on big, striving populations, we found our home in government consulting. 

“RiverNorth exists to turn the traditional IT consulting and government contracting paradigm on its head. We are industry disruptors, first and foremost. Our goal is to prove that holding employee development, value-based leadership, and a distributed decision-making culture above all else yields better results for employees—and by extension, clients and the business.”


Briana Coleman

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
RiverNorth