Strategic Planning & Management Consulting Services

Empowering leaders to think, plan, and act strategically

How We Help

Proven Success

Our proven Strategic Management Performance System (SMPS) is designed to equip you with the tools, insights, and methodologies needed to succeed in today’s fast-evolving landscape.

Industry-Certified Expertise

Our consultants are internationally certified in strategic planning and management, ensuring that your organization receives expert guidance at every step.

Customized Strategic Planning and Management

We develop a strategic planning process tailored specifically to your organization’s needs and objectives.

Collaborative Facilitation

We engage your team in robust discussions, helping you align around a shared vision, establish balanced set of strategic outcomes, and prioritize key initiatives.

Building Strategic Competency

Through our workshops, consultations, and ongoing support, we strengthen your team’s ability to think, plan, and act strategically.

Comprehensive Strategic Toolkit

We provide you with practical tools and methodologies to enhance your strategic management capabilities.

Who We Serve

LBL Strategies has facilitated successful strategic planning, strategic management, and foresight engagements for public, private, and nonprofit organizations across diverse industries. Our clients include government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and nonprofits.

For our Government Clients:

Explore Our GSA Schedule Offerings and Capability Statement

As a Veteran-Owned Small Business and GSA Schedule holder, we make it easy for government organizations to access our training and consulting services. Download our Government Capability Statement to learn how we can support your strategic initiatives.

Government Capability Statement

Our Six-Phase Proven Process

At LBL, we carefully tailor our proven framework, the Strategic Management Performance System to each consulting engagement. This ensures that leaders stay engaged and collaborate effectively at the appropriate strategic level throughout the process. We are happy to customize your engagement around any, or all, of the following phases:

  • Phase 1: System Initiation

    Engage leadership to understand the current situation from several perspectives. Assist leaders with developing and communicating a recommended approach for meeting the strategic planning and management needs of the organization.

  • Phase 2: Environmental Assessment

    Gain strategic foresight from diverse stakeholders by carefully assessing the external and internal environments faced by the organization, then prioritizing where to focus and why.

  • Phase 3: Strategy Formulation

    Set a longer-term strategic direction and formulate a high-level strategy for success.  Define the customer, owner, partner, and employee value propositions.

  • Phase 4: Strategic Planning

    Write the strategic plan to achieve the strategic direction.  Identify key drivers of success and translate them into a balanced set of strategic objectives. Develop a strategic operating plan, including KPIs and/or OKRs. Decide what legacy items to sunset. Prioritize initiatives to move the strategy into action.

  • Phase 5: Strategy Execution

    Transform the operating model to align with the new strategy. Cascade the strategy and strategic objectives down into and across the organization.  Align key stakeholders behind the strategy.  Implement the strategic operating plan.

  • Phase 6: Performance Management

    Measure performance, learn from experience, revisit assumptions, intensify stakeholder engagement, adapt, and govern strategy.

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Contact us to learn more about how our Strategic Management Consulting Services can help your organization thrive in an uncertain future.