Strategic Visioning & Strategic Planning Workshop
A visual and participatory approach to co-creating a shared future for your organization.
Why Strategic Visioning & Strategic Planning?
People want to work toward something bigger than themselves—and leave the office knowing they’ve made real progress. Our Strategic Visioning & Strategic Planning Workshop helps your leadership team connect purpose to performance, so vision isn’t just an aspiration but a roadmap you own together.
This leadership workshop is a visual and participatory approach to co‑creating a shared future for your organization. It’s a hands‑on, visually driven process that ensures everyone not only shares the same vision but also owns the path to get there. By the end, you’ll walk away with a compelling, visually rich strategic portrait that aligns everyone around priorities and lays the groundwork for execution.
Strategic Visioning & Planning Workshop
Our Strategic Visioning & Strategic Planning workshop is a highly interactive, visually driven process that helps organizations align around a shared future—either in person or virtually. Using best-in-class materials and visual guides, a facilitator guides your leadership team through a series of structured, high‑engagement conversations to map current realities, paint a vivid picture of the desired future, and co‑create strategic action plans and communication frameworks. Participants see decisions materialize before their eyes, gain clarity on priorities, and leave with a compelling roadmap and the collective buy‑in needed for successful execution.
What You’ll Accomplish
Your team will partner with an expert facilitator to:
- Establish Group Norms
Set clear agreements for respectful dialogue, decision‑making, and collaboration. - Reflect on History
Celebrate past wins and mine lessons from challenges to inform your next steps. - Map the Current Landscape
Surface strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with large‑format visuals. - Envision the Ideal Future
Paint a vivid picture of success 1–3 years out—your collective “North Star.” - Identify Strategic Drivers
Define and prioritize the critical themes that will propel you toward that future. - Backcast to Today
Translate your vision into action by setting near-term milestones, metrics, and assigning owners. - Commit to Momentum
Build accountability with a clear strategic roadmap and a follow‑up rhythm.
Deliverables
- Photographic Record: Full‑color images of all workshop graphics
- Strategic Roadmap: A distilled document outlining your vision, drivers, milestones, and governance model
Ready to turn hindsight and foresight into strategic insight, planning, and execution?
Contact us to customize your Strategic Visioning & Strategic Planning Workshop and give your team the clarity, alignment, and momentum they need.
Onsite or Virtual Team Experiences
We offer both an onsite, in-person event and a live, virtual team experience. Workshops range from a 4-hour half-day to a two-day full retreat. The virtual format is perfect for a smaller group of leaders on a budget. This leadership team experience is an engaging, hands‑on workshop that uses visual facilitation and collaborative exercises to co‑create an inspiring, shared vision for your organization—and empowers every participant to own the roadmap that brings it to life.
Appreciate your prework and passion
Chris, thank you so much! It was a fun day. We had great feedback on the session for our marketing leadership team. We were all so appreciative of your pre-work and passion in the Leadership and Team StrengthsFinder event! Emily, Senior Vice President, Starbucks Marketing USA; Kyndra, Vice President, Global Marketing, Starbucks Rewards & Partnerships
Tangible. Relatable. Actionable.
It was a great session. I had almost every single leader on my team comment to that effect. I think we’re making progress on getting folks to work together and see the best in their colleagues’ actions. Today was another step on the path to making this team really hum! I thought you did a fantastic job of making our team training tangible, relatable, and actionable. Thank you again for your time. Travis, Senior Vice President, ISG Sales, Global Business Operations Dell Computers EMC
Executive Leadership Coach, Former Business Dean, Award-winning MBA Instructor
Dr. Christopher P. Meade brings more than 25 years of experience to his role as president and chief training officer at Leadership Alive, Inc. ® Christopher holds a PhD from the University of Idaho in Adult & Organizational Learning with a concentration in leadership. He also holds two master’s degrees and a certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School. He is an author and has published five books and a recipient of the CEO Today Management Consulting Award.
A former business school dean and award-winning MBA instructor, Christopher has coached and trained over 10,000+ leaders and led and facilitated team trainings for 500+ teams and organizations Many of his clients reflect some of the nation’s top-tier firms, all of whom have placed their trust in his professionally prepared, dynamically delivered speaking presentations and facilitated training engagements.
Some of his clients include Apple, Nike, Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, NFL Detroit Lions, Facebook, Salesforce, Instagram, Sony PlayStation, Cisco, Federal Reserve Bank, Johnson & Johnson, U.S. Departments of Treasury, Commerce, Justice, and Defense, Providence Health, Citibank, US Olympic Committee, NBC Universal, Abbott Laboratories, United Healthcare, Marvel, Home Depot, Hewlett-Packard, University of California Berkeley, Emory University, Code.org. and Children of the Nations.
Chris speaks regularly at leadership events and team training events on Leadership throughout the United States. He has been a guest lecturer in 15 cities throughout China. He spends his time speaking, training, teaching, writing, and leader-building.