Reaching Alignment Without Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is dead! Long live strategy. Increasingly, the nonprofit sector is abuzz with the idea of eliminating the traditional multi-year strategic plan, and its associated high price tag and significant investment of time. While traditional plans might go the way of the dodo due to increasing awareness of the rapid changes of our sector’s environment, the need to thoughtfully assess organizational strengths and challenges and unearth blind spots remains. In addition, with an emerging workforce that demands new levels of decision-making engagement and transparency, the need to codevelop and articulate an organizational North Star becomes all the more important. Join this 90-minute exploration for nonprofit professionals and board members of where the sector goes from here in terms of defining strategy, including a look into the key tools and flexible frameworks that can keep your organization aligned without being tied to a plan that is outdated almost as soon as it is finalized.

Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this opportunity if there is not adequate registration.

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More about our facilitator:

Eileen Garcia (she/her) has spent her career working in support of the social impact sector, including over a decade of experience as the lead executive of a nonprofit. She has served as CEO of Texans Care for Children and as the Executive Director of the Texas State History Museum Foundation. She has also worked in Austin for The Children’s Partnership, Texas CASA, and Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas; and served on various nonprofit boards.

She provides training and guidance to leaders and organizations to help them understand and advance equity in service delivery and operations. Her expertise includes individual coaching, strategic planning, organizational development, mergers, nonprofit administration, coalition building, advocacy, media relations, board member engagement, and supporting organizations through new stages of growth and change.

Eileen is committed to elevating unheard voices and supporting organizations that strive to do good. Eileen believes it is her role as a consultant to help an organization better understand itself and its communities so it can more effectively move forward in its mission. She is passionate about helping organizations look more closely at who they are and consider the impact they are having in all facets of their operations.

Eileen holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of Notre Dame, a Masters in teaching from University of Portland, and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. She also earned a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University.