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93: Doing Strategic Planning Differently with Beth Saunders

93: Doing Strategic Planning Differently with Beth Saunders

Update: 2025-12-09
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Beth is passionate about making missions happen. Throughout her consulting career, Beth has helped nonprofit leaders connect people and programs to mission and goals. Her MapMoveMeasure™ framework is a guide for elevating stewardship and increasing supporter engagement. 

Beth's customers say working with her introduces fresh perspective and new ways of thinking about their work. And they always gain clarity, strategic direction, and alignment. Beth's consulting practice reflects her life experience. Studying abroad, earning her MBA, taking a mid-career detour to volunteer and travel, leaving her corporate job to serve in AmeriCorps VISTA and ultimately leading her own consulting practice have contributed to Beth's commitment for connecting passion with purpose. 

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"Planning strategically is how I reframe strategic planning. I often see strategic plans that have a high level strategy or big goals at the top and dive very quickly into the execution of it. So it's a little thin on strategy and quite robust on operations. That is actually leapfrogging right over the opportunity for a leadership team to really sit in that strategic thinking space."

 

"Planning strategically from my perspective starts with a very clear, well articulated vision statement that is supported with outcomes the organization can actually achieve."

 

"Every strategic plan has vision in it. And the way to make your strategic plan more strategic is to really build out that vision within your accountability and within your capacity to think about a roadmap of outcomes."

 

"Be clear not only on your vision, but your roadmap of getting there. Not the work to do, but the change you're making along the way."



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93: Doing Strategic Planning Differently with Beth Saunders

93: Doing Strategic Planning Differently with Beth Saunders

Naomi Hattaway