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Purpose is a powerful accelerator for articulating visions, outcomes and priorities in way that mobilizes stakeholders to the ‘why’ of their work. It also substantially enables building high performing boards and leadership excellence through clarity of work, vision and the change mandate. With focused intent, we work to harness that power to create engaging, personally vested and mission impactful facilitated engagements. We approach facilitation as an opportunity to create immersive experiences that embolden the purpose of the organization. We design experiences with intent and a focus on engagement. Below are highlights from recent engagements we’ve facilitated that illustrate these objectives in the facilitated experience we designed.
The experiences highlighted below are of Your Crescendo engagements:
Annie E. Casey Foundation Atlanta Civic Site Vision 2020 Strategic Articulation
Currently developing the strategic articulation site for the Atlanta Civic Site that will set the stage for the foundation’s investment strategies in the City of Atlanta. Additionally, we provide leadership coaching for the Atlanta Civic Site Director through Finding Your Forte. Designedandfacilitatedameetingwithkeystakeholderstosupport the development of a two-generation focused data strategy. The post-meeting deliverable included a strategic articulation map to visually depict delivery of efficient family-centered programs and services that are informed by a proficient approach to data collection, sharing and understanding. Developed a toolkit to help the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Family Centered Community Change sites develop a clear articulation of key outcomes (The Why) that align with the needs of children and the appropriate strategies and services (The How) required to achieve those outcomes.
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.
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Bottom Line Bottom Line helps low-income and first- generation-to-college students get to and through college. We helped their development articulate its go-to-market strategy for fund development, pursue (and win) grant opportunities and develop a pitch deck.
National Black MBA Association Under the direction of the incoming CEO, we developed their strategic articulation map focused on their purpose through facilitated sessions with leadership. We continue to be engaged to lead and coordinate implementation of their strategic plan.
Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative We led Atlanta Wealth Building Institute’s board and leadership through a two-day retreat experience. As an organization, AWBI is focused on closing the black wealth gap in Atlanta through empowering entrepreneurship and systemically strengthening access to capital for black entrepreneurs. We designed and delivered this strategic planning experience to mobilize a strong, working board to empower their new executive director and set her up for success.
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Impact Church – Strategic Articulation
We led Impact Church on a several-month engagement to articulate its strategic plan in addition to its brand strategy and guidelines. This engagement created a leadership / staff roadmap tool in addition to a marketing and branding guideline. Staff and leaders always carry and reference their strategic articulation map in making key decisions and staying focused on what they’ve chosen to make priorities. Vision Construction Once our strategic articulation was completed, we needed to build the implementation plan. Having led the implementation through consulting, we needed to transfer ownership of the plan to the client to continue without our support. To prepare them for this key transition, we created a vision construction experience in the space of one of the city’s most prominent commercial builder’s offices and provided construction hats and cold pack lunch pails (that they continued to use as a reminder of the experience).
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.
Historic Westside Gardens
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City of Atlanta - Fulton County Land Bank Authority As an approach to level set new board members with old on how landbanks work, we had board members play an equity version of Monopoly with members having the opportunity to be the ‘land banker’.
National Society of Black Engineers Currently leading the facilitation to guide NSBE student and staff leadership through a several month exercise to articulate its strategic path forward. As an organization, they are focused on movement building to continue to make black engineer a household name in homes and communities of color and beyond.
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
We were part of a team engaged to define the strategic articulation for Transformation Alliance focused on equitable transit-oriented development through mobilizing a group on non-profits and creating cohesive synergies to combat racial inequity in Atlanta with regards to transit and development.
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ATLANTA FOOD & FARM – STRATEGIC ARTICULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING
We facilitated the development of Atlanta Food and Farm Strategic Articulation. We also led the development of their implementation plan and delivered project management training to their team.
Contact: Kwabena Nkromo, Executive Director
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