Your Crescendo Proposal - Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative

TRANSFORMATION ALLIANCE In an effort to create an immersive experience connected to their purpose related to equitable transit-oriented development, we had members take MARTA to our strategic planning session. We also featured only vendors in the community neighborhoods they served including

SLAM! ACADEMY ATLANTA In a high stakes team building and strategic plan development retreat, a soon-to-launch charter school had a contentious relationship between its board (mostly African-American) and the foundation/funders (mostly Latino) that provide the blueprint for the school. By starting with connecting their purpose to the school mission allowing them to more meaningfully get to know each other and then work together to plan the strategic articulation’s implementation.

ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS While leading delivering of key district strategic initiatives in the midst of a cheating scandal, the leader and the strategic program and project delivery team found themselves working through abysmal morale. We facilitated a series of Finding Your Forte starting with the key leader and then her team. This energy carried over into the entire district when the new superintendent embraced StrengthsFinder as a strategic thrust to ‘Focus on What’s Strong instead of What’s Wrong’. This helped them navigate beyond the scandal, and now every teacher and staff knows their strength from StrengthsFinder and the use them in everyday education processes and support.

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FINDING YOUR FORTE ATLANTA WEALTH BUILDING INITIATIVE BOARD RETREAT | OCTOBER 2019

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