Strategic planning can be one of the most powerful tools an organization has. It creates shared understanding across leadership, staff, and governing bodies about who an organization is, where it’s going and why. It surfaces the values and priorities that should be driving decisions and it builds internal alignment that makes an organization more focused and better positioned to serve its community with intention. When an organization knows its own story and can articulate its unique role in the larger work of community wellbeing and self-determination, everything else becomes clearer.

Our approach begins where it should: in the future our communities are already heading. We invite organizations to think in generations, to ask what our Ancestors built so that we could be here, and what we are building so that those who come after us will have what they need. From that expansive place, we work back toward the present, identifying where the organization stands, what it carries, and what its unique role is in the larger story of community wellbeing and self-determination.

Our kinship and relational thinking shapes our approach, not only relationships among people but the organization’s relationship to land, to community, and to the non-human relations that have always been part of how Indigenous peoples understand their place in the world.

Our process wraps up through helping organizations build culturally grounded visuals and narratives that tell the truth of who they are. And because a plan only lives if it is used, we produce concise, accessible documents alongside guiding questions and implementation work plans designed for day to day use. Leadership should be able to pick up the plan in the middle of a hard decision and find their way back to what matters.

Current Projects Include:

• Strategic Plan Review and Renewal
• Organizational Vision and Values Development
• Generational and Community Centered Strategic Planning
• Governing Body and Leadership Planning Retreats
• Staff Engaged Planning Processes
• Culturally Grounded Visual Storytelling and Narrative Development
• Implementation Planning and Workplan Development