After thirty years of strategic management consulting, we have found that organizations that incorporate strategic planning and management processes outperform organizations that don’t.

We’ll help your organization by:

• Delivering structured appointments with a team of professionally certified planning professionals
• Engaging with your team to customize a planning process that meets your organization needs
• Facilitating robust team discussions
• Documenting all input about your strategy initiatives
• Delivering in-depth post-session collaboration
• Providing helpful strategic tools and resources
• Strengthening your team’s strategic management competency
• Our promise is simple: we will help your organization to focus, make better decisions and grow.

We realize the same solution doesn’t fit every situation. LBL has carefully crafted our own proven framework known as the Strategic Management Performance System for each consulting assignment.

Running a successful non-profit organization or association requires a team of smart, committed leaders at the board and executive levels. Too often, an organization’s board members lack essential skills for the organization to function at an optimal level.

LBL’s governance consulting provides practical solutions for transforming your organization’s board members into high-functioning, strategically focused leaders. Our certified governance trainers guide your leaders and board members through the complexities of developing effective governance practices that lead to effective organizations.

As a founding member of the International Association for Strategy Professionals Certification Program, LBL has been at the forefront of business strategy developments for over 30 years. With that experience and insider knowledge, LBL has created training programs that are effective at producing competent strategy professionals. Whether you’re looking to pass your IASP exams or just interested in advancing your career, our training programs will help.

Mastering Strategy Certification For All Sectors

Improve performance by mastering the complete strategic management process

Mastering Agile Organizational Design Certification

Construct organizational components and align the design with the strategy. 

Strategic Foresight and Scenario-Based Planning

Scenario-Based Planning provides a framework for planning in uncertain times by giving organizations a structured way to think about the future. 

Strategic Thinking in the 21st Century

Align day-to-day decisions to your organization’s strategic direction. 

Strategic Agility & OKRs

This one-day interactive workshop is designed to cultivate agile decision-making, with a special focus on utilizing OKRs. 

International Association for Strategy Professionals Exam Preparation

Online IASP Certification exam preparation course.

The Mastering Strategy: Strategic Management Performance System Certification Program, offered in association with the George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, part of the College of Professional Studies is an intensive, hands-on Continuing Professional Education program designed for professionals who are looking to build their skill sets in the management of strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation.

This program equips you with the skills you need to help your organization and yourself succeed by:

• Imparting the full strategy management process into your everyday decisions
• Learning effective strategic planning, implementation and evaluation practices
• Learning how to lead strategic planning efforts
• Bridging the gap between planning and execution principles and practical tools to guide agile planning and decision making.
• Preparing you for the International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP) certification (if applicable)

As a founding member and Registered Education Provider for the International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP), we stay at the forefront of strategy education, training, professional certification, and consultation services.

Many organizations overlook basic strategy execution principles daily. In fact, only 9% of companies are rated as excellent at execution, and only 11% of managers believe that all their company’s strategic priorities have the financial and human resources needed for execution success. Gaps in the company’s performance often trace back to leaders and key managers not thinking strategically. Here’s how LBL Strategies will help your leaders think and act more strategically in just one day. We help our clients focus, make better decisions and grow by instilling the ability to think and act strategically

Addressing the Types of Leadership Issues

Do you often see strategy meetings veer off topic? Are your team members engaged and aligned with the organization’s strategic direction? Is budget dictating your strategy? Are there external opportunities and threats that are being ignored? We’ll cover each of these specific problems and more in this introduction to strategic thinking tools and exercises. All organizations face these issues, but not all organizations address them. The one-day program will provide you with the ability to understand how strategic thinking guides day-to-day operational work — and, in turn, leave you with tools, exercise, and 10 key questions to help you think and act strategically.

Addressing Strategic Leadership Questions

Implementing your strategic goals into all aspects of your business is a challenge. We’ll work through common questions regarding integrating strategy into the business and provide a clear path for how to best move forward.

Results

The goal of Strategic Thinking in the 21st Century is to encourage strategic thinking at all levels of your business by providing you with an understanding of the impact strategic thinking has on organizational alignment, execution and performance. Ultimately, you’ll walk away with the ability to ask the right strategic questions in each business situation you face moving forward, resulting in better strategic decisions and a healthier overall business.

The Mastering Strategy: Strategic Management Performance System Certification Program, offered in association with the George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, part of the College of Professional Studies is an intensive, hands-on Continuing Professional Education program designed for professionals who are looking to build their skill sets in the management of strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation.

This program equips you with the skills you need to help your organization and yourself succeed by:

• Imparting the full strategy management process into your everyday decisions
• Learning effective strategic planning, implementation and evaluation practices
• Learning how to lead strategic planning efforts
• Bridging the gap between planning and execution principles and practical tools to guide agile planning and decision making.
• Preparing you for the International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP) certification (if applicable)

As a founding member and Registered Education Provider for the International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP), we stay at the forefront of strategy education, training, professional certification, and consultation services.