SKC facilitates strategic conversations that are interactive, rooted, and, dare-we-say, enjoyable. They help get you to where you need to be… even if you don’t know what your exact destination is yet.

Let us lead your organization, social enterprise, or business through a strategic conversation process.

We’ll explore:

  • What is - setting the context and discussing the complexity

  • What if - identify new ideas and possibilities

  • What works - what is realistic, what achieves the best outcomes?

  • What next - how do we move forward?

SKC has developed sequential strategic conversation tools that can help you have the discussions you need to clarify your goals, plans, and aspirations.

The sessions can be one to three days long. (Half-day sessions are available as well, but are limited in the depth they can explore.)

These conversations will be realistic, rooted in the complexity of our world, and avoid simplistic solutions. Consultant Sean Kelly has been in the environment and community development sectors for a long time and knows that solutions are rarely easy or straightforward.

Our approach is that organizations need to explore insight before determining solutions and actions. We believe it’s better to have rough answers to the right questions than detailed answers to the wrong questions.

Sean and his team will guide you through these strategic sessions using unique discussion tools that we have created, including:

S.A.G.E. conversations: Situate. Articulate. Generate. Engage.

C.O.I.N. exercise: Constraints. Opportunities. Improvements. New ideas.

Yeah, we like mnemonic devices!

3-N’s exercise: What are you doing for Nostalgic reasons? What is Noteworthy? Where are you a No-Show?

6-C’s process: Six discussion areas, each with tailored activities to focus the conversation and get to actionable steps: Context. Conjecture. Constraints. Choices. Connections. Convergence.

We are also experienced in using other traditional strategic planning tools such as SWOT, PESTEL, Problem & Solutions Tree analysis, Parallel Thinking, etc.

Schedule a meeting with us to learn how we’ve used our strategic conversation process with other organizations — and how it can help yours.