2011-2026 | CELEBRATING 15 YEARS
Clarify Strategic Direction
When the path forward feels foggy
Your mission has never mattered more. But lately, the way forward feels less certain than it used to.
Maybe your last strategic plan has expired, or it lives in a drawer no one opens. Maybe your organization has grown, your funding landscape has shifted, or the world your mission responds to looks different than it did three years ago. Maybe your board and staff hold different visions of what comes next, and every planning conversation stalls before it starts.
You are not alone, and you are not off track. Every organization doing serious work reaches moments when the old map no longer matches the terrain. What you need is not more effort. You need clarity: a shared understanding of where you are going, why it matters, and how you will get there together.
That is what this engagement delivers.
Facilitated strategic planning
Clarify Strategic Direction is a facilitated planning engagement that guides your organization through a complete strategic planning process: from deep listening and honest assessment to a clear, actionable plan your whole team owns.
We serve as your neutral guide and skilled facilitator. We design the process, hold the space for courageous conversations, surface the insights hiding in your own community, and shape it all into a living plan built for the next three to five years. You bring the mission, the knowledge, and the heart. We bring the structure, the perspective, and the steady hand.
Nonprofits, foundations, cultural institutions, and mission-driven teams ready to align board, staff, and community around a shared multi-year direction.
Multi-organization alliances that need a plan honoring every partner's voice while committing to collective priorities and shared accountability.
Advocacy and movement campaigns that need strategy sharp enough to win and durable enough to sustain the people doing the work.
SELF-ASSESSMENT
Is this the right moment for your organization?
Not every organization needs an outside partner to plan. But there are moments when an experienced, neutral guide changes everything. If any of these sound familiar, it may be time to talk.
Your plan has expired, or never existed
Big decisions, no multi-year framework to guide them.
Leadership is in transition
A new director needs a level playing field to set direction.
Board and staff see different futures
A neutral facilitator can name tension without taking sides.
You are entering a new chapter
Growth, a merger, or a shifting landscape demands a fresh look.
The funding ground is moving
You need a plan strong enough to inspire the next investment.
Your coalition is drifting
Partners agree on values but not on priorities.
You are too close to see clearly
Unexamined assumptions and blind spots shape decisions.
The urgent keeps eating the important
Your team works hard, but reactive, and everyone feels the drift.
Checked two or more? You are exactly who this engagement was designed for. Unsure? That is worth a conversation too.
WHAT YOU GAIN
Three things every strong plan requires
Fresh perspective
When you live inside the work every day, it becomes hard to see it whole. We bring outside eyes shaped by fifteen years alongside movement organizations, asking the questions no one inside the room thinks to ask. Like the dragonfly, we help you see from every angle.
Objective insight
We have no stake in old debates and no seat in existing hierarchies, so we can hold up an honest mirror. Through interviews, listening sessions, and landscape analysis, we gather what your board, staff, and community actually think, then reflect it back with care and candor.
Focused alignment
A plan only works if the people who must carry it out believe in it. Our facilitation builds genuine consensus, surfaces disagreement early so it strengthens the plan, and leaves your team able to articulate the same direction in their own words. Not a document. A shared commitment.
HOW IT WORKS
Our path to clarity
Every engagement is tailored, but the arc is consistent. Most full planning processes run four to eight months from first conversation to board-approved plan.
“Dragonfly helped me navigate the balance between consensus-building and decisive leadership at NARAL. Their team fostered authentic collaboration, guided conflict resolution, and challenged my blind spots when needed. Working with Dragonfly made me a stronger leader and helped NARAL become a more impact-driven, equitable organization.”
Ilyse Hogue, Past President
NARAL Pro-Choice America
EXAMPLE
Frequently asked questions
CONTACT
Let’s Start the Conversation
Ready to clarify your vision, strengthen your team, or lead change with confidence? Let’s start the conversation. Share your goals with us, and together we’ll create a strategy that drives lasting impact.
Move through change with
grace and impact
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