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Strategic Planning Services

Charting a new strategic direction is one of the most demanding things a leadership team does.  The future of the organization seems to hang in the balance, and everyone has an opinion.

You already have a full plate, and leading strategy discussions is not your idea of fun, but you don't have to do it alone.

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Four Ways We Work with Leadership Teams

Focused Momentum offers three strategic planning consulting services, plus a confidential Executive Strategy Advisor relationship for individual leaders. Each planning service addresses a different scope of challenge, and Founder and Chief Strategist Cecilia Lynch leads each one.

For more than 25 years, Focused Momentum has led strategic planning projects for companies, nonprofits, and academic departments. We know it's more than a meeting. It's about organizational clarity, leadership confidence, and broad buy-in. Whether you need to build a long-term plan, align your team on what comes next, or put a new plan to work, we can help.

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Most Popular Strategy Summit® Build a Strategic Plan Learn More
Implementation Support Put Your Plan to Work Learn More
Strategy Boost™ Align Your Team Learn More
New! Executive Strategy Advisor Thought Partner for Big Decisions Learn More
What is it? A comprehensive strategic planning engagement Project-based support to put a new plan or direction into action A strategy workshop for team alignment A confidential advisory relationship with Focused Momentum Founder and Chief Strategist, Cecilia Lynch
What you get A long-term strategic plan: vision, core strategies, milestones, aligned financial model, near-term implementation plan An implementation roadmap, plus services to close gaps in your ability to deliver on that roadmap where you need outside support Strategic agreements and a Now, Next, Then Alignment Plan™ (30–90 days, six months, 12–18 months) Direct access to more than 25 years of strategic leadership, a confidential strategist in your corner, on your schedule
Typical length 8–12 months to complete 3 phases From 30 days to multi-year Within 45 days, including a 1–2 day in-person workshop 2 months, then based on your needs
Investment For-profit company rate Starting at $85,000 (for-profit) Fees depend on the scope of services Starting at $28,000 for a one-day workshop (for-profit) $5,000 for two months, then negotiated
Best for Organizations setting long-term direction, new leaders, and organizations at an inflection point Organizations with an approved plan or committed direction Teams, departments, boards, and smaller organizations that need near-term alignment, or whose annual retreat no longer produces decisions Anyone in a leadership position facing a high-stakes decision
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Strategy Summit®: Build a Long-Term Strategic Plan

A comprehensive strategic planning engagement that builds your organization's long-term plan with the people who will carry it out, through scalable stakeholder engagement from a few dozen to a few hundred people. Many Strategy Summit® engagements begin in a new leader's first year.

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Strategic Plan Implementation Support services

Strategic Plan Implementation Support: Put Your Plan to Work

Plan approval is where the hard work of implementation begins. We help you build your implementation roadmap and provide the services that turn a new plan or direction into how your organization operates, with bench specialists leading workstreams alongside your project sponsor.

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Strategy Boost strategy workshop process

Strategy Boost™: Align Your Team

A focused strategy workshop that moves a stuck or divided team, department, board, or smaller organization to shared priorities. Every Strategy Boost™ produces strategic agreements and a Now, Next, Then Alignment Plan™. It doesn't change your strategic direction; it gets your team working from the same one.

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Executive Strategy Advisor: A Confidential Thought Partner

A confidential advisory relationship with Cecilia Lynch for CEOs, board chairs, and senior executives facing high-stakes strategic decisions or difficult leadership challenges, without an active consulting engagement. 

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Who We Build Strategic Plans With

Companies

For CEOs, presidents, and the leaders of autonomous divisions: move past the ad hoc decisions that got you this far and build a plan disciplined enough to hold up against bigger, faster-moving competitors. Many of our company engagements begin in a new CEO's first year, when the plan they inherited no longer fits the company they're now responsible for.

Nonprofit & Mission-Driven Organizations

For CEOs, executive directors, and board chairs navigating funding shifts, board alignment, and leadership transitions: we bring the same rigor and discipline to your mission that we bring to company strategy, because nonprofits compete for resources the way businesses compete for customers. A new executive director inheriting an organization mid-transition is one of the most common starting points for this work.

Academic Departments

For physician leaders, department chairs, research directors, and administrative team leaders: a proven process for organizations where patient care, sponsored research, teaching, and administrative priorities must move together. When a new chair or dean arrives with a vision larger than the organization's current capability, the plan has to build both.

Who We Build Strategic Plans With

Companies

For CEOs, presidents, and the leaders of autonomous divisions: move past the ad hoc decisions that got you this far and build a plan disciplined enough to hold up against bigger, faster-moving competitors. Many of our company engagements begin in a new CEO's first year, when the plan they inherited no longer fits the company they're now responsible for.

Nonprofit & Mission-Driven Organizations

For CEOs, executive directors, and board chairs navigating funding shifts, board alignment, and leadership transitions: we bring the same rigor and discipline to your mission that we bring to company strategy, because nonprofits compete for resources the way businesses compete for customers. A new executive director inheriting an organization mid-transition is one of the most common starting points for this work.

Academic Departments

For physician leaders, department chairs, research directors, and administrative team leaders: a proven process for organizations where patient care, sponsored research, teaching, and administrative priorities must move together. When a new chair or dean arrives with a vision larger than the organization's current capability, the plan has to build both.

Who We Build Strategic Plans With

Companies

For CEOs, presidents, and the leaders of autonomous divisions: move past the ad hoc decisions that got you this far and build a plan disciplined enough to hold up against bigger, faster-moving competitors. Many of our company engagements begin in a new CEO's first year, when the plan they inherited no longer fits the company they're now responsible for.

Nonprofit & Mission-Driven Organizations

For CEOs, executive directors, and board chairs navigating funding shifts, board alignment, and leadership transitions: we bring the same rigor and discipline to your mission that we bring to company strategy, because nonprofits compete for resources the way businesses compete for customers. A new executive director inheriting an organization mid-transition is one of the most common starting points for this work.

Academic Departments

For physician leaders, department chairs, research directors, and administrative team leaders: a proven process for organizations where patient care, sponsored research, teaching, and administrative priorities must move together. When a new chair or dean arrives with a vision larger than the organization's current capability, the plan has to build both.

Many of Our Clients Reach Their Strategic Goals Ahead of Schedule

See how companies, nonprofits, and academic departments, many led by someone in their first year in the role, built their plans and put them to work. 
The Structure Was the Strategy
The Structure Was the Strategy

When your strategic plan can’t succeed because your organization isn’t built to execute it

Renowned Worldwide, Supported by Too Few
Renowned Worldwide, Supported by Too Few

When your reputation fills the room but your case for support doesn't

Planning Must Go On
Planning Must Go On

When crisis makes planning feel impossible, but the cost of not planning is higher

New Leader, Big Vision
New Leader, Big Vision

How a first-time CEO aligned a resistant board around a bold new vision

Lost in the Dark
Lost in the Dark

When you inherit a strategic plan that has no stakeholder buy-in

100 Years Young
100 Years Young

When a proud legacy needs a new vision before it can celebrate its past

Which Comes First?
Which Comes First?

When your bold strategic vision is creating organizational chaos 

From Trauma to Transformation
From Trauma to Transformation

When stability isn’t enough: a traumatized organization needs a reason to believe again

If They Grow, We Grow
If They Grow, We Grow

When your market is growing fast — and you're falling behind

The Big Squeeze
The Big Squeeze

When competitive disruption hits from every direction — and you have no response

When Where You Are Is Who You Are
When Where You Are Is Who You Are

When a hidden geographic asset becomes the strategic foundation for everything that follows

Caught Off Guard
Caught Off Guard

When you don't see the threat coming until it's too late to avoid it

The Weight of the Vision
The Weight of the Vision

When what you've taken on is bigger than you understood when you said yes.

Everyone in Their Lane
Everyone in Their Lane

When a strategic plan without divisional alignment is just a document

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Why teams choose us

Why Organizations Choose Focused Momentum

  • More than 25 years of sustained client relationships. We've built strategic plans for companies, nonprofits, and academic departments, and clients come back.
  • A named strategist on every engagement. Cecilia Lynch designs and leads every engagement personally, and stays accountable when specialists from our bench join the work. Every engagement is custom-designed, never an off-the-shelf template or toolkit.
  • Proprietary methods refined over nearly three decades. Our proprietary methodologies include Strategy Summit®, Strategy Boost™, Strategic Focus Market Mapping, Strategic Success Structure and Role Clarity, and Strategic Success Strategy Alignment Planning.
  • A plan your people own. We don't write your plan or run it for you. We guide your leaders and teams as they build and execute it, so the strategy stays in your organization.
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Strategic Planning Consulting Frequently Asked Questions 

Why Strategic Plans Fail, and How to Avoid It

Learn the three most common causes of strategic plan failure and how to address them before your next planning meeting.

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We Make Strategy Possible

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