Strategic & Program Planning
We help clients, collaborators, and partners identify and deliver unique contributions to their constituent communities and broader fields, supporting them to meet their goals in ways that align with their underlying values. Our strategic or program planning and design processes are often oriented around helping organizations and teams align values with actions. We offer skills around structuring the right process based on the organization’s goals, facilitating board and committee meetings, analyzing ecosystem and user research, coaching leadership, and more.
Select Strategic & Program Planning Projects:
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
2023–25 Strategic Plan
We supported NHSCA to complete a values-focused strategic planning process that has become the foundation for their work. It combines elements of SOAR analysis and Real-Time Strategic Planning. Elements included a retreat, focus groups, interviews, a survey, regular meetings with leadership, and workshops with staff. The process culminated with plans for internal and external use, as well as screening criteria for future strategy creation and implementation.
NEWHAB
Strategic Inquiry Process
We completed a strategic planning process with NEWHAB (Network for Energy, Water, and Health in Affordable Buildings) staff, which included selecting and convening a committee made of NEWHAB members, conducting an ecosystem scan, analyzing survey data, and developing a shared set of principles to guide future program implementation that are still in use.
The High Line
Friends of the High Line Design & Development
Danya founded and Directed New York City’s High Line park’s Department of Public Programming, Education, and Community Engagement. She grew the Department from one to fifteen employees (completing many plans in the process), and in the process co-designed and managed K-8 public school partnerships, hundreds of award-winning family and community programs, and worked with national experts to advise the design team on a child-led playspace.