Our Signature Seminar:

3 Keys to Making Strategy Matter

Strategies don’t belong on shelves.

Inspire your team with an engaging presentation to learn a smarter approach to strategic planning that creates REAL results and lasting impact.

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Put Your Strategy Into Action

Don’t just check the box with your next strategic plan. Move the needle.

Gain key insights and tips on making strategy an impetus for lasting change for your program, organization, or mission. This 60-minute seminar distills presenter David Wagner’s 15+ years of strategy consulting, coaching, and mission-driven leadership into ready-to-use practices. A great resource if you:

  • Need a forward-looking plan, but worry a traditional “strategic plan” will just end up gathering dust on a shelf (like so many do),

  • Are considering a new strategy for your program or organization,

  • Plan to start, or have already started, a strategic planning initiative, or

  • Have a great strategy, but you’re concerned about your team following through to put it into practice.

With this engaging seminar, learn how to:

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Create a Compelling Vision

Learn how to engage key stakeholders in crafting a compelling and achievable vision for your program or organization.

Grasp new ways to:

  • Eliminate confusion and uncertainty about your mission.

  • Tap into the knowledge and passion of your diverse stakeholders.

  • Embrace both long-term, enduring goals and near-term outcomes.

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Build a Comprehensive Action Plan

Gain practical tips on how to develop a comprehensive roadmap to guide your team and realize your vision.

Learn how to construct an action plan that:

  • Aligns day-to-day efforts with long-term objectives.

  • Assigns clear accountability for significant, measurable outcomes.

  • Demonstrates feasibility with experience-based budgets and milestones.

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Lead Everyone Forward Toward Lasting Impact

Get ready-to-use methods that build commitment, get your team pulling in the same direction, and generate results.

Gain meaningful tips that will help:

  • Root board oversight and executive decisions in strategic goals.

  • Create a culture that fosters team commitment your strategy.

  • Incorporate ongoing feedback to keep your strategy relevant and evergreen.

Learn from a Dynamic Speaker and Established Leader

David has helped dozens of organizations activate their strategies and produce lasting mission outcomes. Bring his insights and dynamic speaking style to your program or organization.

  • 15+ years of experience facilitating strategy development and partnering with nonprofit and government leaders to implement their strategies.

  • 10+ years of first-hand leadership experience crafting innovative solutions and inspiring teams to commit to a shared direction.

  • Trusted by leaders in healthcare, education, public policy, technology, and more.

Learn more about David and his unique approach to smarter strategic planning.

Free for a limited time! David will tailor this seminar for your team.

Get the benefit of David’s experience-tested insights customized to focus on your team’s current needs. Not sure where to start with strategy? Is your strategic planning effort already underway? Have a strategy, but aren’t sure how to put it into action? Whatever your situation, David can focus this seminar on the right topics to meet your team right where they are.

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  • Portrait of David Wagner provided by Bill Rice