Strategy Consulting
For Conscious Organizations
We work with smart, conscious leaders who need thoughtful counsel to understand their options, capitalize on big opportunities, help their teams work through complex challenges, and find a clear path forward.
You have the answers. We'll help you find them.
A Conscious Approach to Strategy
Customers, shareholders, employees, and executives are asking for a different way of doing business. The old rules of maximizing profit at any cost have given way to a holistic desire to balance short-term profit, sustainable long-term growth, and many other factors, from positive environmental impact to the personal fulfillment of team members to overall social good.
How do you pursue a multifaceted strategy without tying your organization in knots?
A conscious approach to business needs a conscious business strategy.
Conscious business strategy builds on traditional strategic fundamentals like focus and differentiation and integrates them with the awareness, alignment, and intention that are the cornerstones of conscious leadership.
Conscious business strategy is based on a collective awareness of the organization's needs and values, alignment with what matters most to the core stakeholders, and the intentional pursuit of a shared vision of success.
Aware of Identity
Do we know who we are, who we serve, how we create value, and what matters most?
Aligned on Differentiators
Do we understand what makes us different? Do we have the courage to pursue it?
Intentional in Focus
Can we collectively agree on what to do and, equally importantly, what not to do?
We Foster Conscious Growth
Conscious leaders work with us to create purpose-driven, conscious business strategies that unlock growth in their businesses, communities, teams, and themselves.
We help you create growth along three dimensions.
Revenue
We build strategies and campaigns that create significant financial lift for your business.
Impact
We help you do well while doing good in the world.
Fulfillment
We help you make sure your work benefits your soul as well as your financials.
Social Purpose Strategy
We help conscious businesses and teams do good and do well through passionate, mission-driven strategies that build the business and its positive impact on the world.
Purpose-Driven Growth • Sustainability & Responsibility • Development Strategy • Philanthropic Partnerships & Engagement
Why Choose Plenty
Our clients routinely tell us that before hiring Plenty, they chose a large, well-known consulting firm.
Again and again, we hear, "After a year of work and tens of thousands of dollars, all we got was a nice PowerPoint. We need to try something that actually gets results."
It's amazing how many strategic planning engagements end with an expensive slide deck that doesn't reflect the cares of the stakeholders, the needs of the market, or the opinions of the team.
We won't PowerPoint over your problems. Our conscious, experiential approach will surface the real issues, find solutions your team cares about, and build the buy-in along the way that you need to be successful.
Conscious Approach
Focused on Alignment
Head and Heart
Executive-Level Service
Process and Product
Change From the Inside Out
Our Consulting Packages
Our engagements range from affordable one-day workshops to enterprise-wide, multi-year transformations. Every engagement is customized to fit your needs.
Here's where we start.
Meridian
Strategic Planning for Conscious Leaders
Your Consultants
Plenty co-leaders Jennifer Mulholland and Jeff Shuck are dynamic facilitators, strategists, leaders, and published authors. Together, they bring unparalleled expertise in facilitating positive change and unlocking growth for a better world.
Jennifer and Jeff will facilitate your strategic planning and guide you and your organization to envision and reach its best future.
Our Typical Process
Our immersive, proven process ensures you build a great plan – and create the buy-in you need to implement it.
We tailor every engagement to your specific needs. Here's how we approach a typical strategic planning process.
I. Kick-off & Learn
- We'll help you choose a project team.
- We'll introduce the project and align on your goals.
- We'll spend a few days to a few weeks exploring your organization, depending upon the scope of our work together.
II. Analyze & Discuss
- We will conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to help surface insights, challenges, and opportunities.
- This may include mining constituent data, running revenue and expense analytics, interviewing key stakeholders, and deploying proprietary assessments.
III. Engage & Align
- There's no substitute for in-person human connection. Every engagement we conduct features an in-person experience at HeartSpace, Plenty's retreat center in Park City, Utah, or onsite with you.
- We'll share our discovery findings and distill the discovery from your team and
agencies. - We'll use nature and outdoor exploration to help you find the most important insights to apply to your challenge, and inspire you to dream about your company's highest possibility.
- As we go, we'll explore possible alternative solutions, and, most importantly, align on what's next.
IV. Document & Refine
- After the in-person session, we'll document the discussions, decisions, and roadmap in a playbook - a beautiful, informative plan that includes all of the components of your decisions.
- Then, we will refine it together, ensuring buy-in and adoption from key decision-makers like board members, executives, partners, and agencies.
- We also test any financial models we've built and workshop any key operational changes.
V. Implement & Achieve
Finally, we'll help you codify the decisions and direction into your existing plans and budgets or, if applicable, replace your previous strategies with what's been created.
In addition to the experiential deliverables, you can count on at least four written deliverables:
- Discovery Findings. We'll present a set of discovery findings to you.
- Retreat Materials. This is a workbook for you and each project team member to use during our in-person session.
- Draft Playbook. A draft playbook outlining the approach we've agreed on for you to review and use. This may include financial modeling, depending on the core problem to be addressed.
- Final Playbook. A final playbook, integrated into your existing strategic and financial documentation, based on your feedback on the draft.
Strategy Resources
We regularly publish blog posts, podcasts, books, and tools to help guide your strategic planning.
The Meridian Strategy Process
Download a free PDF about our Meridian Strategic Planning Process, and learn more about how you can implement the Meridian framework.
The Plenty Blog
Browse our library of articles about strategic planning, conscious strategy, creating team alignment, and generating purpose-driven growth.
The Five Keys Assessment
Use our Five Keys Assessment for Conscious Culture as a way to reflect on your current organizational culture and how to align it with the strategic results you want.
What Our Clients Say
Read what our clients say about working with us.
Genuine Magic
"There is a genuine magic that happens with Plenty. It’s part curation, part commitment and a lot of releasing. That mixed with the team at Plenty and…
Reason To Believe
"Jeff and Jennifer have created a wonderful space and process that facilitates a team's true ability to explore possibilities and find their purpose t…
I Have Never Experienced A More Meaningful Strategy Session
"Having worked in the corporate environment for more than 10 years, I have never experienced a more meaningful strategy session with a team than I hav…
Clear Path Forward
"Plenty’s Meridian process helped our team define the essence of our program, which resulted in a clear path forward towards our goals. Coming out of …
Leading In This Space
"Team Plenty: Thank you for being a model for what I want to be for others. Your presence, your leadership, your wisdom… all things I truly admire. Je…
One Of The Best I've Attended
"Plenty's Meridian process was truly insightful and inspirational! The approach of focusing on passion, purpose and possibilities was not only uplifti…
Two Parts Strategy Session, One Part Renewing Retreat
"The team at HeartSpace really knows how to encourage groups to productively open their hearts towards purposely guiding their organizations towards t…
Highly Recommend
"I came into the week skeptical of the time commitment and more important things that needed to be done at the office. Leaving the experience totally …
Well Done!
Strategy is such a meaty topic to address for any organization and the pre-work that was done by Plenty through the survey and even speaking to a form…