Strategic Planning Simplified: The Clarity Method: A Refreshingly Simple, Flexible, and Practical Ap

Strategic Planning Simplified: The Clarity Method for Nonprofits

You've been asked to lead your nonprofit's strategic planning process-and you're feeling more nervous than ready. Maybe you're not a consultant. Maybe this is your first time. Maybe you're wondering where to even start.

Take a breath. You're in the right place.

Strategic Planning Simplified: The Clarity Method is a refreshingly practical guide for nonprofit leaders who want to build a meaningful, actionable strategic plan-without the overwhelm. Designed especially for executive directors, board members, and staff who are handed the task of "figuring it out," this book gives you everything you need to lead a smart, inclusive, and focused planning process-step by step.

You don't have to be an expert. You just need a structure that works.

Inside this book, you'll discover:

• How to gather honest, useful input from stakeholders without holding a single retreat

• A flexible planning timeline that fits real-life nonprofit schedules

• A simple, powerful method to sort priorities and uncover group alignment

• How to facilitate a strategic planning meeting with confidence-even if you've never done it before

• Tools to turn ideas into a living, one-page plan your team actually uses

This guide also includes the story of Alex Morgan, a fictional but deeply relatable new Executive Director navigating her first strategic planning process. Through Alex's story, you'll see what the method looks like in action-complete with real-world challenges, quiet breakthroughs, and a few coffee-fueled late nights.

This method respects your time, honors every voice, and leaves you with clarity-not confusion.

This is not corporate. This is not complicated.
It's strategic planning, simplified.

By the end of the book, you'll have more than just a plan.
You'll have the confidence to lead.