Everyone in the room has a different definition of success.
Most organizations don't fail for lack of ambition. They fail because they can't align the room around what matters most. We facilitate a process that surfaces the real priorities, builds shared conviction, and produces a plan your people will actually move on. Because they helped build it.
The plan is rarely the problem. Alignment is.
Organizations rarely stall for lack of a good idea. They stall because the room was never aligned on what matters most. Our process builds the shared conviction that makes a plan executable. Here's what changes when the room aligns.
- Competing priorities resolve into a short list everyone can name.
- The board and the staff leave with the same definition of success.
- Every imperative has an owner, a timeline, and a measure.
- The people who execute it helped build it, so they move on it.
- Alignment outlasts the engagement, because the team built the muscle.
The Coraggio difference
"Other firms hand you a report. We surface where to focus, and stay until the organization can carry it forward."
How clients describe working with usGet Clear. Get Focused. Get Moving.
Three phases, one discipline. We diagnose what's real, design around what the room just named, and stay through the hardest part: making it move. The phases are iterative, not linear, so what surfaces in execution feeds back into focus.
Get Clear
Diagnostic ClarityDeep stakeholder engagement and proprietary assessments surface where the real opportunity lives, and what's in the way. We name the unsaid before we recommend anything.
Get Focused
Directional ClarityWe turn vision into imperatives and measurable objectives. The plan emerges from the clarity, built by the people who will carry it, so they own it from the start.
Get Moving
Operational ClarityImplementation toolkits and a steady cadence keep the plan in motion. This is where most firms stop. It's where we stay, through the part that's actually hard.
From a true picture to a plan that moves.
A strategic plan is a leadership process, not a document exercise. We facilitate at any scale, from a 12-person executive team to a 300-plus community convening, and the quality of thinking does not change with the size of the room.
- Stakeholder engagement and constituency alignment
- Large-scale facilitation, up to 300+ participants
- Vision, mission, and values articulation
- Data-driven strategic roadmaps
- Priority-setting and resource alignment
- Measurable objectives and KPIs
- Competitive positioning and market analysis
- PESTLE and situational assessments
What you walk away with.
Stakeholders aligned. Direction clear. People ready to move, because they built it together.
A plan you both own
A strategic plan the board and the staff both stand behind, not a document one side wrote for the other.
Imperatives with owners
Clear priorities, each with an owner, a timeline, and a measure. Direction you can act on Monday.
An organization ready to execute
A design that can actually carry the plan, with the decision rights and structure execution requires.
Alignment that outlasts us
A process that builds your team’s planning muscle, so the next plan is one you can lead yourselves.
We've been in your room before.
The work follows the same shape across sectors. The texture is different. Pick the world you work in. The risks, the proof, and the way we earn trust change with it.
The risk: vocal stakeholders and a public board.
"My board meeting is 40% shorter. We're talking about decisions, not status."
What a destination leader tells us a year in.
- State & regional tourism offices
Resilience work we built is now in use across a network of state tourism organizations. It holds up to divided stakeholders and lodging-tax scrutiny.
- 27+ state tourism offices served
We speak tourism, so you won't have to explain the politics. When scale calls for it, we bring specialist depth through Miles Partnership.
The risk: public records and political turnover.
"The plan outlasted the council that adopted it. That's the bar."
What a city or county leader measures by.
- Defensible, transparent process
We design engagement to survive sunshine laws, a public-records request, and a change of council. We handle council one-on-ones and department alignment with care, one chair at a time.
- ICMA-fluent, RFP-ready
Our RFP responses read like a public document, not a sales pitch. The plan holds up to a public-meeting walkthrough.
The risk: defending the budget and protecting a thin team.
"We didn't just write a plan. We changed how we make decisions."
What an executive director tells their funder.
- Business Oregon
We helped design a "Care for our People and Culture" goal with measurable Gallup engagement targets. An aspiration became something the board could hold them to.
- Oregon School Boards Association
A value-driver assessment showed which programs and services mattered most to members. We built the prioritization around what it found.
The risk: accreditation timelines and shared governance.
"This document will hold up to an accreditation visit."
What a community college planner needs to be true.
- Clackamas Community College
An inclusive process across faculty senate, classified staff, students, and community. It produced a publication-quality plan tied to the accreditation cycle.
- Higher-ed-fluent & on schedule
We speak shared governance and we hold the timeline. The inclusive process is the point, and the plan reads as polished for every audience.
A small senior team, with a deep bench.
We're a senior team, and the principals you meet are the ones who do the work. As part of Miles Partnership, we can pull in specialist depth when an engagement calls for it, without the overhead of a big firm or the limits of a small one.
When you need more
Senior attention from our team, plus specialist depth from a global network when it helps. You won't manage a roster of vendors to find the people who actually know your work.
global staff
organizations served
Led by specialists, not generalists.
Andrew Leary and Colleen Floyd lead Strategic Planning at Coraggio. You work with them directly, and they stay in the room from the first listening session to final handoff. We don't hand you off to a junior bench.
The organizations that lead with courage outperform the organizations that lead with caution.
Coraggio Group · Bold Strategies. Brave Leaders. Bright Future.Andrew Leary
Andrew leads with conviction. He ties every plan to the mission it serves and the people it grows, and he holds the work to a standard of excellence, not adequacy. He is the voice that keeps a strategy true to why the organization exists.
Colleen Floyd
Colleen is a deeper thinker than she lets on. She works from context and precedent, asks the question behind the question, and turns a complex room into a clear path. She wants the work done excellently, and it shows.
Get the room aligned on what matters most.
Start with a conversation. We'll help you name the real priorities, then design a planning process that fits your people and your timeline.