STRATEGIC PLANNING
ALIGN YOUR VISION
PLAN WITH PURPOSE
Strategy that reflects your mission, your team, and your reality.
If you’ve ever felt like your strategic plan doesn’t reflect the reality on the ground, you’re not alone. A&O helps teams get out of the weeds and into shared direction. Our planning process clarifies your priorities, builds internal buy-in, and turns ideas into reality.
/ WHO IS
IT FOR?
Mission-driven organizations navigating change, growth, or complexity. Teams who want a realistic, participatory process that centers clarity and usability.
/ WHAT WE
OFFER
We tailor every planning process to fit your culture, goals, and timeline. Our approach draws from the Nonprofit Lifecycles* model and starts with a thorough discovery process. We use inclusive inquiry methods like document review, interviews, surveys, and structured facilitation to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities.
Conversations are focused. Plans are actionable. Tools are easy to use.
Create strategy that reflects both mission and reality
Facilitate inclusive sessions that prioritize clarity and trust
Turn input into decision-ready direction
Deliver a roadmap you can explain, implement, and adapt
Navigate group dynamics and tough conversations with care
Coach leaders through role changes, growth, or complexity
*Susan Kenny Stevens, Nonprofit Lifecycles Stage-Based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity (Wayzata, MN: Stagewise Enterprises, Inc., 2002)
/ WHAT YOU’LL
ACHIEVE
A shared sense of purpose to move your organization forward with a detailed implementation plan with defined goals, milestones, roles and responsibilities, timelines, and measures of progress.
Kind Words About A&O
“Proven professionals with significant nonprofit experience, the A&O team demonstrated a perfect balance of relating and achieving, guiding us to creating a vision and plan that will take Paige’s Butterfly Run to the next level.”
Ralph L. Simone / President of the Board / Paige’s Butterfly Run
