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IMPACT ABOVE ALL

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Our clients are leaders in nonprofits, philanthropy and government.

What unites them is a desire to turn their vision of a brighter future into reality. 

We help them think through and unravel their toughest organizational challenges, so they can find clarity, stay relevant in a rapidly evolving world, and maximize their impact.

DISCOVER THE PROCESS

Read our case studies to see how our 5-phase framework is applied and customized to every organization’s specific needs, goals, and desired outcomes.

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LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (LA Plaza) is a museum and cultural center that centers the history of Latinos in Los Angeles through transformative exhibitions, events, and multigenerational experiences celebrating Latinx culture. Emerging from the tumult of the pandemic, LA Plaza was faced with existential questions around their mission, vision, purpose, and identity that would help them determine what their next evolution would be.

Read the case study to discover how Star Insights helped LA Plaza craft not a strategic plan, but a Strategic Framework, that provides the team with essential clarity and acts as a foundation for the future.

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Committee for Greater LA

The Committee for Greater LA was founded at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to produce a report that exposed the inequality present in Los Angeles prior to the pandemic, with the goal of providing a framework for equitable recovery. 

Facing technical challenges, scope changes, and nationwide anti-racism demonstrations, the Committee called on Star Insights to help them overcome these challenges, facilitate discussion, and keep them on track.

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City of Los Angeles Department of Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights)

The Los Angeles Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights) has an ambitious assignment: to reduce bias and injustice while leveling the playing field for the citizens of Los Angeles. As a new department in a change-prone environment, they needed a strategic framework that would help them not only hit their targets, but also clearly present what the department was about and what their strategic priorities are.

Read the case study to see how Star Insights helped deliver a strategic framework that could serve the department through any change, while helping them balance their priorities and hit their targets.

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Heart of Los Angeles

For over 30 years, Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) has been providing high-quality after-school programs to children in Los Angeles.  With decades of experience and lessons learned, HOLA was looking for the best way to expand their impact, and  influence policy to reduce the ever-widening equity gaps that leave young people without access to programs like theirs.

Read the case study to discover how Star Insights helped HOLA create organization-wide mission alignment that has “blown away” their partners and dramatically increased their efficiency by setting out a clear path towards their goals.

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Tournament of Roses

After 135 years, Pasadena Tournament of Roses is still dedicated to celebrating new beginnings and creating joy through their annual New Year’s Celebrations: the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game. However, the world has changed – especially in the last few years. With a volunteer membership of over 900 people and a history steeped in tradition, the Tournament needed a strategic plan that could carry them into the future while preserving the most important parts of their identity.

Read the case study to see how Star Insights helped the Tournament of Roses balance tradition with change, preserving who they are while listening to their hundreds of stakeholders and co-creating a future their community is eager to be a part of.

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

With the 2028 Olympics on the horizon and their existing strategic plan coming to an end, the LA Chamber of Commerce needed a new strategic plan and, in addition, was also facing a crossroads as an organization. They brought on Maria Salinas as CEO to help change how the chamber operated, so that it could stay relevant and keep serving its communities.

Read the Case Study to see how Star Insights worked with the team to build trust and develop a strategic plan that included a new vision and strategic priorities that could carry the Chamber 10+ years into the future.

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Technology Agency Strategic PlanWA Technology Solutions (WaTech)
Olympia, WA

Star Insights partnered with WaTech, the State of Washington’s lead IT agency, to create a three-year strategic plan (2024-2026).

Star Insights and WaTech senior leadership developed and approved an iterative planning process rooted in co-creation. We crafted an inclusive framework to engage critical interested parties through highly interactive workshops and an agency-wide survey. This plan created a future vision for the agency around three goals:

  • Enable Customer Success Through Service Delivery.
  • Learn Together. Build Together. Server Together.
  • Statewide Technology Leadership.

Through our approach, WaTech refined a commitment to serve through a new mission, vision, and set of values that emphasized their role to provide strategic technology leadership and influence how government services are delivered.

Enterprise IT Strategic PlanLos Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA

Our Division Lead was the Strategic Advisor in creating Los Angeles County’s first Enterprise IT Strategic Plan (2018-2023).

This pioneering strategic plan was created in collaboration with and departments and 200+ business and technology leaders and included five strategic goals:

  1. Digital Civic Engagement
  2. Mobility
  3. Data as a Utility
  4. Workforce Empowerment
  5. Transform Procurement

In addition to co-creating the plan, goal teams were launched to support moving from a plan to action, where these department driven teams created objectives, measures, and initiatives that were the foundation for work across a five-year period.

Enterprise IT Strategic PlanState of Washington
Olympia, WA

Star Insights partnered with the State of Washington’s lead technology agency, Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech), to create an Enterprise IT Strategic Plan (2023-2025) for over 100+ state agencies.

This inclusive and collaborative approach involved business leaders, and IT representatives from state agencies, ensuring that all voices were heard. Together, we designed an inclusive framework to engage essential interested parties through existing governance and interactive workshops to generate ideas and recommendations for the plan. Representing agency priorities, the plan emphasizes residents and their experience with government services:

  • Create a government experience that leaves no community behind.
  • Better data, better decisions, better government, better Washington.
  • Innovative technology solutions create a better Washington.
  • Transform how we work. Best workforce ever.

With a focus on action, leading up to the approval of this plan, we established "Goal Teams" consisting of the agency business and IT leaders to deliver on priorities and initiatives connected to the plan.

Planning For Meaningful Change

Are you ready to start paving the way for meaningful change, maximum impact? Download our 5 Keys To An Effective Strategic Plan That You'll Actually Use and create a strategic plan that everyone in your organization will commit to executing.

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