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A Client Executive will reach out within 1 business day with facilitator profiles matched to your planning challenge.

What The Drivers Model addresses

• Establishing a clearly defined strategic direction the whole organization can follow.
• Making the plan specific, measurable, and actionable — not a shelf document.
• Aligning the entire organization with the priorities of the plan — not just leadership.
• Engaging all key stakeholders in the process — ensuring genuine buy-in, not compliance.
• Agreeing on planning definitions, decision rights, and process up front.
• Ensuring the plan addresses the real business issues — not symptoms or surface-level goals.

Who benefits most

• Executive teams where leadership needs to participate — not manage the room.
• Organizations that have tried internal planning and produced plans that went unused.
• Nonprofits and government agencies that need structured stakeholder engagement.
• Companies preparing for a major transition — new leadership, merger, or market shift.
• Teams that need a plan built on real consensus — not the highest-paid person’s opinion.

Leadership Can’t Stay Neutral

The CEO or executive team needs to participate in the conversation — not manage it. An external facilitator owns the process so leadership can be fully present as contributors.

Plans That Go Unused

Your last strategic plan ended up on a shelf. The problem usually isn’t the ideas — it’s that the process didn’t produce real ownership. A skilled facilitator fixes that at the source.

Divided Leadership or Hidden Conflict

There’s disagreement on priorities that isn’t being surfaced openly. An external facilitator creates the safety and structure for honest dialogue — without the politics.

Major Transition Ahead

New CEO, merger, funding change, or market disruption — moments of significant change require a structured planning process that builds alignment from the ground up.

High-Stakes Multi-Day Retreat

You’re bringing the full leadership team or board together for an annual planning offsite. The investment is significant — and you need the session to produce concrete outcomes, not just conversation.

Stakeholder Complexity

Your planning process requires input from multiple departments, board members, funders, or community stakeholders. Balancing those voices and reaching alignment is exactly what skilled facilitators do.

Describe Your Planning Challenge

Tell us your organization type, scope of the planning effort — full org, department, or board — group size, format, and timeline. Takes 2 minutes.

We Match You

A Client Executive identifies 2–3 facilitators whose sector experience, methodology fit, and approach align with your planning goals — not just calendar availability.

Choose & Book

Review profiles, ask questions, select your facilitator. We handle introductions, logistics, and pre-session design support through to your planning session day.

Brandon Allen

CMF™

Transformative · Results-Driven · Engaging

Master of transformation — facilitating the gap between uncertainty and results. Helps leadership teams build and execute strategic plans that move organizations into action with genuine buy-in and follow-through.

Dorothea Brennan

CMF™ · IAF Platinum Award

Experienced · Insightful · Nimble

Award-winning facilitator with deep experience in strategic planning, decision-making, and complex stakeholder environments. Her planning sessions are known for producing the kind of alignment that sticks long after the offsite ends.

Diana Gurwicz

CMF™ · Wharton MBA

25+ Years · McKinsey Background

Specializes in organizational strategy, executive alignment, and facilitating leadership teams through complex planning processes. Uses a data-informed approach to surface the real issues and build plans that drive measurable results.

Nadine Doyle

CMF™

Humorous · Authentic · Nimble

Helps organizations think better together. Equally comfortable with 5-person executive leadership teams and 100-person national planning summits — fostering authentic dialogue that produces decisions people own.

Leigh Ann Rodgers

IAF CPF · INIFAC CVF

Energetic · Flexible · Optimistic

20 years of experience helping organizations develop and execute strategic plans. Has facilitated planning sessions for Chick-fil-A, CDC, and organizations across corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors.

Neerja Arora Bhatia

OD Consultant · 20+ Years

Dynamic · Transformational · Certified

Expert in organizational strategy, cultural transformation, and facilitating executive planning sessions. Known for creating the psychological safety that allows leadership teams to surface what’s really holding the organization back.