Great strategy doesn’t capture consensus. It creates it.
Strategy is an opportunity to chart a course for the future while energizing and engaging your community. Our design-driven process is collaborative, emotionally engaging, and transformational. We help teams identify the needs in their community, think creatively about the the changing world, distill their thinking into strategic insights, and make a concrete plan to get even better.
Strategic plans should be the next chapter in your school's unique journey.
All schools have a unique and compelling story. Our strategic planning process starts with understanding your context, your values, your culture, and the significant events that have shaped you. Then, we chart a course for the future by defining our current human needs — and finding ways to meet them with innovative solutions.
Through an intentional, engaging process rooted in human-centered design, a diverse and interdisciplinary design team from your school will spend a year learning, connecting, and developing a strategic plan with three foundational outcomes: first, an inspiring plan that differentiates your school in your market; second, increased capacity to execute that plan; third, energy and enthusiasm for your future direction.
Strategic Sprints are for schools that need to make a strategic decision quickly, but intentionally.
This is a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous time. Enrollment, staffing, school calendars, safety, pedagogy, and the needs of all constituencies are in flux.
Our Strategic Sprints help schools answer a small, focused set of strategic questions over four 2-hour sessions, so that they can respond quickly to changing circumstances. A Strategic Sprint could help you:
Prepare for multiple enrollment scenarios.
Prepare for evolving staffing needs and develop multiple plans if needed.
Re-think tuition and financial aid models.
Communicate your school's value proposition in a time of uncertainty.
Shrink your offerings strategically without changing who you are.
Request Our Strategy White Paper.
There are many possible paths ahead. Our white paper, “Strategy In A Time Of Flux,” was just updated for 2022 and designed to help schools stay strategically nimble in an era of rapid change. Enter your information below and one of our team members will send you a free PDF of this resource.
“After doing our most recent strategic plan with Leadership+Design, I now see what is possible in a new way. I didn’t realize how much going through the process with a human-centered design lens not only creates more possibilities, but also helped us understand a new way of being together. This new way of being is an intangible benefit that will bring value from this point forward.”
— Client