Strategic Planning

At its core, strategic planning is simply about clarifying the change you wish to make in the world, and then creating a plan for achieving it. MAG consultants specialize in guiding clients through clear, rigorous, and jargon-free strategic planning processes designed to produce robust organizations and powerful strategies for change.

Our services include:

Thinking and planning strategically
Defining long-range goals/measures of success
Clarifying focus, priorities, theory of change
Providing ongoing coaching and assistance to leaders as they implement new plans
Developing strategies to maximize the value of diversity

Client Testimony

"Our MAG consultant was willing to get in the trenches and do the work with us, not just leaving us with a pile of challenges...And nearly three years later, the plan we came up with is still very much internalized within the organization and is very much a part of our work." -Shari Silberstein, Equal Justice USA

"MAG led us through our strategic planning process with rigor and honesty and love...[Their] willingness to invest in us has encouraged others to invest in us and [their] faith in us has been reassuring and energizing." -Nadia Mortiz, Young Women's Project

PUBLICATIONS

Strategic Planning that Makes a Difference A concise and clear approach to planning.

CASES

Creating a Cohesive, Effective, and Diverse Culture A major human rights organization powerfully realigns its strategy and enhances cohesion and diversity.

Comprehensive Strategic Planning A funder's request to diversify its funding sources becomes a powerful opportunity to realign strategy for a national service provider.

Center for Reproductive Rights unifies organizationally and develops responsive strategies to domestic and international changes.

Land Trust Alliance refines its strategic plan and fosters a whole series of new successes and leaders.

SisterSong finds its shared vision as a collective and restructures itself to take the steps toward realizing it.