Consulting Services

We navigate organization change.  We help you examine old facts and new realities, reconstruct your assumptions, align critical perceptions, and develop new agreements.  With us, you vision – and can act toward – a different future.

People hire The Canoe Group when the opportunity for transformation is apparent.  A wave is coming, it’s time to get all the paddles in the water together.  (Whether the impact calls you to plan a leadership succession, refocus your branding, develop a new program opportunity, strategize a facility move, restaff a key manager resignation, anticipate a dramatic change in your funding streams, analyze a new technology impact, gather new allies or converse with constituents, examine a partnership or merger opportunity – we can help.  We’ve done it all.)

Sometimes an all-hands-on-deck new strategic plan is needed. More tightly focused change plans help you capitalize on opportunities that have been just around the bend for a long time.

Whatever lies on the horizon, the call’s for a new tack, for action, for innovation.  Floating in a backwater is almost as bad as running aground.

Adaptive Strategic Planning: We Help You Get To Where You Want To Go

The Canoe Group guides clients who need to plan for the future – strategic plans, business plans, reorganizations, leadership transitions.  We’ve done it all.  We collaborate with you to design the workplan to involve your entire crew, so you chart the future together.  We assure you analyze exactly where you’ve been, where you are and where you want to go.

Learn more about how we guide strategic planning.

Initiative Development: We Help You Chart New Waters

We call it developing new initiatives.  We know how you can capture the earliest new idea and explore its opportunities, how you can (and when you should) gather allies, how to build mutually beneficial agreements that will stand the test of time.  We help you clarify new vision, design the test run (and learn from the results) and move on to full implementation.

Learn more about how we support initiative development.

Strategic Communications: We Assure The World Knows Who You Are

Strategic communications means you know exactly and specifically what is unique about what you offer the world, and that you have absolutely clear ways to communicate that message… over and over and over again.  So that every dollar you spend and every choice you make reinforces what you want people to know, how you want them to feel and what you want them to do.

Learn how our strategic communication plans can impact your organization today.

Community Engagement: We Help You Encourage People To Take The Plunge

At The Canoe Group, we call this community engagement. People want to belong.  Out there are many, many people who want to belong to YOU.  You want a relationship with your customers, your supporters, your partners, your investors/funders.  Investing in community building makes you bigger.

Learn more about how we approach community engagement to strengthen organizations.


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What Others Are Saying

"The Canoe Group is energetic, pro-active, cheerful, and dedicated. We like these skillful facilitators and advisors."
Norm Smith, President
The Ford Family Foundation