Strategic Facilitation

Strong outcomes start with strong leaders.

Meetings, especially ones with high expectations such as strategic planning, often result in wasted time and no meaningful outcomes. SN’s experienced facilitators can turn those meetings into collaboration sessions where attendees are energized and leave the meeting with legitimate next steps and a plan of action.

Having an unbiased third-party facilitator lead your most important meetings can revitalize your entire firm. Plus, you benefit from SN’s deep understanding of how AE firms run, the challenges they face, and the opportunities for success. We would love to help you make strategic decisions more quickly and with greater confidence.

Types of Facilitation

Leading the Charge by Fine-Tuning the Focus

Each firm is unique, so we always approach each facilitation with a fresh set of eyes and ideas. Partnering with you, we customize each session to ensure the focus is on your goals and vision. Your facilitator will lead your team through each step, carefully navigating to keep everything and everyone on track.

  • Strategic planning retreats
  • Planning meetings
  • Marketing & sales planning sessions
  • Project-specific pursuits
  • Branding & value message programs
  • SWOT/SOAR/STEEP analysis
  • Data gathering via surveys and interviews
Benefits of Strategic Facilitation

Turn Your Vision into a Reality

At SN, we’re upfront about the fact that we live and breathe the AEC industry. It’s that commitment and command to your industry’s nuances that makes it possible to produce results that are the complete opposite of generic. We get into the nitty-gritty so that you have specific, actionable steps that make sense to your firm and your goals.

  • Receive AEC specific problem solving and insight
  • Leverage hard trends to capitalize on disruption
  • Establish accountability for greater success
  • Develop your future view and the steps to get there
Featured Success Story

Strategic Business Development Retreat

After facilitating a strategic business development retreat for a 50-person design firm, we aggregated ideas and recommendations into a marketing and business development plan focused on growing the firm’s three business units using lower-cost tactics while creating points of differentiation, enhancing the corporate brand, and increasing name recognition in their target markets.

Leading the Charge by Fine-Tuning the Focus

Each firm is unique, so we always approach each facilitation with a fresh set of eyes and ideas. Partnering with you, we customize each session to ensure the focus is on your goals and vision. Your facilitator will lead your team through each step, carefully navigating to keep everything and everyone on track.

  • Strategic planning retreats
  • Planning meetings
  • Marketing & sales planning sessions
  • Project-specific pursuits
  • Branding & value message programs
  • SWOT/SOAR/STEEP analysis
  • Data gathering via surveys and interviews

Turn Your Vision into a Reality

At SN, we’re upfront about the fact that we live and breathe the AEC industry. It’s that commitment and command to your industry’s nuances that makes it possible to produce results that are the complete opposite of generic. We get into the nitty-gritty so that you have specific, actionable steps that make sense to your firm and your goals.

  • Receive AEC specific problem solving and insight
  • Leverage hard trends to capitalize on disruption
  • Establish accountability for greater success
  • Develop your future view and the steps to get there

Strategic Business Development Retreat

After facilitating a strategic business development retreat for a 50-person design firm, we aggregated ideas and recommendations into a marketing and business development plan focused on growing the firm’s three business units using lower-cost tactics while creating points of differentiation, enhancing the corporate brand, and increasing name recognition in their target markets.