In any strategic planning project, our task is to help the organization leaders and staff develop a blueprint that will guide their organization for several years. The organization’s ideas, values and activities must be knit together into a coherent strategy. We help by guiding the organization through a systematic process of addressing fundamental questions and meaningfully engaging key stakeholders. This two-page brief provides an overview of our approach to strategic planning at each stage, including initial scoping to creating a strategy to planning for start-up to scaling up efforts.