Finding Your North Star
Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Leadership Teams
Strategic planning can be incredibly powerful — if done right.
Yet most strategic plans fail before they are even completed. Why?
In Finding Your North Star™, master-consultant and author Gary Romano shares his strategic planning system, built upon 30 years of experience facilitating strategy development with organizations nationwide.
As Gary reveals his planning secrets and expertise, you’ll learn how to:
Select the right planning team
Easily identify the best opportunities for your organization’s success
Create strategy that keeps you on course
Seamlessly react to unforeseen changes in your world
Write a plan that will get off the shelf and into your hands on a day-to-day basis
Whether your organization is large or small, Gary provides you with the tools you need to realize your vision and full potential through the proven Finding Your North Star™ strategic planning system.
“Finding Your North Star is a fantastic resource for developing an actionable path forward while remaining true to your mission and vision. I love that Finding Your North Star’s approach really leaves you with a strategic plan that is designed FOR your organization BY your organization.”
About the Author
Gary Romano, MURP, SHRM-CP, is an award-winning strategist and experienced advisor for nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs, driven by the vision that no child will grow up in poverty.
In 2009, Gary founded Civitas Strategies to provide mission-driven organizations with the high-quality, cost-effective consulting services needed to improve outcomes for families and children.
He leads Civitas Strategies’ innovation projects, including the organization’s three hallmarks: Lean Recruitment™, their targeted recruitment system; Luminary Evaluation Group, their program evaluation spin-off; and Finding Your North Star™, strategic planning and planning for systems change and collective impact.
Gary Romano on The Nonprofit Show — “Finding Your Nonprofit’s North Star”
“Finding Your North Star demystifies how an organization can effectively plan and how important it is for a strategic plan to come from the whole team. The process in Finding Your North Star makes the team approach not only possible, but realistic. ”