Re-Envisioning Strategic Planning

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

10:00am - 11:30am CST - Webinar

Virtual Training: $25

About this session: With the upheaval of 2020 and our cultural ecology in flux, many nonprofit organizations are considering embarking on a new strategic planning process. But does the traditional model of developing a 3 to 5-year plan still work for nonprofit organizations? Or is that horizon too long for the current pace of change and arising challenges and opportunities?

What if there were another alternative? This session is an invitation to think differently about the traditional strategic planning process. In lieu of the more traditional 3 to 5-year plan model, a strategic framework is a rolling action plan that is ambitious, actionable, and responsive. The strategic framework centers internal stakeholders around your organization’s core purpose, values, and resident knowledge. Learn how building a strategic framework can become one of your organization’s internal core competencies.

Who Should Participate:  Everyone

About the Presenters:

Kristin Patton (she/they) is founder of Ensemble Consulting. Working at the intersection of art making, community building, and supportive policies and practices, Ensemble envisions and supports a world in which a thriving arts and culture sector is the backbone of a society evolving in generative, equitable and sustainable ways. Representative clients include About Face Theatre, the Arts Work Fund, HOW, Media Burn Archive, Silk Road Rising and UrbanTheatre Company. 

Kristin brings over thirty years’ experience helping leaders of arts organizations, nonprofits, philanthropies and corporations come to shared understanding around core purpose, then align and lead operations, programs, and planning from that powerful center. Specialties include organization and board development; governance; planning; and change management. Kristin has consulted and presented with the Arts & Business Council, Arts Alliance Illinois, Chicago Cares, Digital Nonprofit Chicago Club, Arts DuPage, and the School of the Art Institute. Prior to founding Ensemble, Kristin was vice president and secretary of investment firm, Sahara Enterprises, where she provided leadership in corporate governance, communications, client relations, strategic planning, operations and corporate giving. She also served as longtime arts program consultant and board secretary at Woods Fund of Chicago. Kristin holds an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and earned her BA from Lewis & Clark College. She is certified in group process facilitation through DePaul University, an affiliate of ARTS Action Research, and member of the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits. Kristin began her career as a professional theater and opera stage manager. 

Logan Jones (he/they), associate facilitator of Ensemble Consulting, is a Chicago-based artist and managing director of About Face Theatre. Logan has frequently collaborated with multiple theatre companies while utilizing his artistic and technical skills, impressive organizational capabilities, and highly collaborative working style. He has worked with Ensemble Consulting as facilitator and project manager on various leadership transitions and organizational development projects since 2015. As a stage manager and production manager, he has helmed multiple productions for About Face Theatre, American Theater Company, The House Theatre of Chicago, Windy City Playhouse, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 13Exp, and the American Music Theatre Project, among others. Logan has a BA in theatre and BA in modern languages from Kansas State University.