Purpose, priorities and plans that people want (and can) commit to.
Macaulay Consulting helps organisations clarify their context, articulate and align on clear purpose, set meaningful priorities and develop practical plans to move forward with measurable outcomes. Working in a human-centred way, Caroline designs and facilitates planning processes that produce strategy people actually understand and commit to, not a document that lives on a shelf.
Every strategic planning engagement is scoped to the organisation it serves. A two-year-old social enterprise needs a different process from a 200-staff hospital and health service, and both need something different from a community-controlled organisation navigating funding change. The structure of the engagement, the people in the room, the depth of pre-work and the format of the deliverable are all built to fit.
Boards, executive teams and leadership groups across:
- Health, education and human services
- Government departments and agencies
- Community sector organisations and not-for-profits
- Private sector organisations with a strong 'for purpose' focus
A strategic planning engagement typically combines:
- Pre-engagement scoping conversations
- Stakeholder interviews, environmental context scanning and research
- Strategic planning workshops
- Theory of change development
What this looks like in practice:
- A board retreat to set a new three-year strategic direction
- An executive offsite to align on priorities for the year ahead
- A facilitated process to refresh purpose and values after a leadership change
- A theory of change workshop for a new program or service
- A series of planning sessions across a multi-team organisation
More than a document.
A well-facilitated strategic planning process produces more than a document. It produces shared understanding among the people responsible for delivering the strategy, clear language for what matters and what doesn't and a practical sense of how to move forward together. Clients describe the experience as both rigorous and energising.
See how Caroline partnered with Growlife Medical to support strategy, culture and implementation through a period of significant growth.
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