As arts organizations mature, expand, and sometimes contract, an outside perspective can assist in making smart choices for a prosperous future.

Strategic planning isn't magic, but it is necessary. Arts groups must regularly consider strategies for growth, assess threats and opportunities, and analyze their programs' effectiveness. Otherwise, your organization risks neglecting its strengths while missing current or impending problems. Hiring an objective strategic planning consultant allows you to focus on what's most important -- your programs and constituents -- while asking essential questions:

• "Does our mission statement truly reflect our organization's purpose and values?"
• "Are we serving our constituents to the full extent of our capabilities?"
• "Should we direct more attention to highly effective programs?"
• "Are there programs that have outlived their usefulness or that don't speak to our mission?"
• "Can we adjust our administrative processes to make the organization more efficient?"

While the strategic planning process can be arduous, it doesn't have to be painful. By investing sustained thought and effort, creating a strategic plan makes an organization stronger, more aware of its potential as well as its limits.

Using a combination of exercises such as a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis, along with honest discussion involving all of the organization's stakeholders -- employees, board members, artists, audiences -- Ryan Tranquilla can help lead you through the crafting of a plan ideally suited for your organization.

References available upon request. Please contact for rates and information.

Contact:

ryan@ryantranquilla.com

310-895-4197