How to Put the Strategy Back into Strategic Planning

Chief strategy officers and chiefs of staff help lead planning processes that must meet expectations for broad participation and shared governance. The challenge is to turn that input into focused choices that distinguish the institution, rather than a long list of commitments that leaves priorities and funding unresolved.

Join us to explore how an inclusive planning process can produce a distinctive strategy and guide investment. Drawing on our new research, Strategic Planning Without Compromise, we will examine an approach that helps leaders connect campus participation to consequential decisions.

Participants will explore how to:

• Build a shared understanding of external pressures and the few strategic problems their institution must solve
• Distinguish ongoing institutional improvement from choices that can change the institution’s future
• Engage campus stakeholders in testing strategic choices and connect those choices to funding before publishing the plan
• Assess meaningful results and establish when to adjust course

Whether launching a new planning cycle or revisiting an existing strategy, participants will identify where to start and how EAB’s planning resources can support their next steps.

Session

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Attendance is limited to chiefs of staff and heads of strategy.

• Tuesday, December 8, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time