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The Critical Questions:

Where do you want your organization to be next year? Three to five years from now?
What will it take to meet your corporate goals and targets?
Are your business initiatives aligned with your strategic plan?
How well is your vision and strategy communicated throughout your organization?
How important is it for your vision and strategy to be communicated outside of the organization?

The Clarus Approach:

Traditional planning models focus on the individual components or business lines within an organization. This approach makes it too easy for an organization to lose perspective and miss the big picture. At Clarus, we take a "systems" approach instead. We make knowledge of the whole organization our primary focus, ensuring that specific initiatives better align with overall organizational goals.
Our process builds buy-in with Boards, staff, and external constituents.
Our strategic planning process often begins with the development of a thought-provoking questionnaire used to facilitate conversation with key stakeholders. Interview results then become the foundation upon which the planning process is built.
We achieve better outcomes by involving those who will implement the strategy throughout the planning process.
Detailed action plans are always an outcome of our strategic planning process.

Our Proven Experience in Strategic Planning:

Conducted a comprehensive strategic planning process for an art-based nonprofit, leading to a board development initiative and internal reorganization.
Conducted strategic planning for the senior management of a large multi-national corporation, moving from crisis planning to forward-looking strategic business planning.
Conducted strategic and capacity planning with neighborhood community center.
Coordinated comprehensive planning process for public school foundation.
Conducted strategic planning and visioning process with environmental nonprofit organization.

"Our projects require timeliness, flexibility and keen political judgment, and the Clarus Group has been essential to their success. Clarus effectively reached out to our diverse stakeholders and helped build strong public-private sector collaboration."

Wendy Jackson

Freshwater Land Trust