Transformative Strategy in Chaos & Complexity
We craft creative, nimble, and authentic strategies that prefigure a vision of love, dignity, and justice for all.
As we navigate the turbulence of fomented chaos and increasing complexity, strategy-making that manages the tension between planning and emergence has become both harder and more necessary. In partnership with you, we craft creative, nimble, and powerful strategic frameworks that both advance our imagined visions and help us live them today. Together, we develop clear strategic directions that support you in navigating complexity, responding from vision in chaos, and continually learning, adapting, and pivoting with purpose, ease, and bold imagination.
We design processes that reflect the organization you are evolving into, confront the hardest challenges at the front, and test a number of ideas you’re already engaging with about your pathways forward, integrating an understanding of how equity and liberation inform and contribute to your mission. Our processes engage with the inner work necessary to notice and address the messy and essential “stuff” that change stirs up within us, and to enable us to take the personal and collective leaps needed to be and do differently.
Our approaches often twine strategy, evaluation, and learning, where ongoing, active learning can enliven and adapt strategies to meet the moment. By creating space to experiment, learn, and incorporate feedback into strategy as it is implemented, we help build a culture of strategic thinking and adaptation that is grounded in vision and impact.
Offerings
- Facilitate strategy development for organizations, foundations, and networks, including clarifying the theory of change and strategic priorities, and creating processes, structures, mindsets, and culture to continually learn and adapt your strategy over time.
- Engage, coach, and assist teams across a broad spectrum of competencies and roles as they design and implement ongoing strategy.
- Develop agreement amongst board, staff, network members, and/or funders around shared values and purpose, in ways that surface and intentionally work with how equity, liberation, and sovereignty inform strategy and ongoing strategic thinking.
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Photo Credit: Jennifer Morrow | CC BY 2.0“Gender Justice is deeply grateful for the support of the [Karl Mathiasen] Fund and for our partnership with Change Elemental and Aurora Commons. During a pivotal moment in our organization’s growth and while awaiting the results of the 2024 presidential election, [Change Elemental consultants] guided our board and staff through a thoughtful and rigorous assessment and planning process. Together, we clarified our role within the broader movement ecosystem, identified the strategies we will prioritize and those we will let go, and addressed the internal work needed to build a stronger, more resilient, and thriving organization and team. The resulting strategic plan is already providing much-needed direction for our team and supporting our fundraising efforts for our next chapter of work.”
Megan J. Peterson, Gender Justice
