Strategic Alignment Design Sessions
This isn’t about crafting a five-year strategic plan. It’s about making sure your work is rooted, responsive, and sustainable in this moment. There’s a lot of uncertainty right now, especially in fields like education, reproductive justice, climate, housing, public health, and the arts. Policies are shifting. Funding is unstable. The needs are real and immediate, and teams are doing their best to respond with limited time and capacity.
But even in the middle of all that, the need to pause and align is still there.
How this will help your work
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Align with your team on key strategic priorities that will ensure the sustainability of your organization
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Reconnect on mission, vision, values and purpose to strengthen organizational cohesion and morale
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Provide clarity amidst uncertainty that cuts through noise and distractions to focus on what truly matters to you and your team
About the Design Sessions
What Was
Gain clarity on your organizational identity and align around what matters most
This session grounds your team on shared understanding of where you've been—what's evolved, what’s remained, and who you truly serve. We’ll be aligning on participatory tools and processes that will anchor our design sessions.
After this session, your team will leave with alignment and clarity on who you are as a team and organization.
What Is
See your current landscape with fresh eyes and make space for what needs to shift.
In this session, we map out what’s real right now—your needs, your roadblocks, and your team’s capacity. We explore tensions both inside and outside the organization and use tools to determine what’s possible.
After this session, your team will leave with transparency on needs, roadblocks and capacity.
What Can Be
Leave with a clear path forward and the momentum and energy to act.
Now we imagine what’s possible. In this final workshop, we translate insights into action. Together, we will co-create your near-future direction rooted in clarity, alignment, and collective energy.
After this session, your team will leave with strategic priorities and a plan for execution.
Design Session Formats
We offer two formats to meet organizations where they are. The goals are the same: to help teams reconnect to their purpose, align around what matters most right now, and act with intention in a shifting landscape.
Full-Day Retreat
This full-day strategic retreat offers your team a powerful pause to reflect, realign, and reimagine. We’ll revisit your organizational history and mission, map current challenges and capacity, and co-design a clear strategic direction for the year ahead. Bring your team together for reflection with creative problem-solving to build shared understanding, surface tensions, and move forward with renewed clarity, alignment, and momentum.
Workshop Series
Offered as a three-part series, these strategic design workshops guide your team through a thoughtful progression: reflecting on your past and purpose analyzing your current challenges and needs and shaping actionable priorities for the near future. Each 90–120 minute session is focused and collaborative, giving your team space to align, adapt, and strategize with intention.
Deliverables from our time together
Strategic Vision Document
Your guiding document for moving forward based off all your team’s creative and collaborative work and discussions. This will include alignment on organizational identity, current challenges, tensions, and needs and key strategic focus areas
Priority Matrix
A customized team-matrix helping teams make decisions by identifying trade-offs and opportunities. A tool to help focus time and attention strategically and effectively.
Twelve-Month Roadmap and/or High-Level Implementation Plan
Your game plan from turning strategy into action and implementation. This roadmap will list key initiatives or milestones, as well as roles for getting things done.
Session Notes and Insights
We will cover a lot during our time together! We want to make sure you have all the rich insights and ideas that come from it. Having this resource will also provide future team members with context on your strategy moving forward.
Limited Offer
Limited Offer
We usually charge over $50,000 for our strategic planning engagements, but know that it may be difficult for organizations to make that financial and time investment currently. To meet the needs of organizations doing powerful, essential, and mission-drive work, we’re offering this at a significantly reduced rate of $10,000 until the end of the year.
If you’re ready to feel more aligned and energized and want more details about how we can support you, contact us. We’d love to be a part of your next chapter.