Strategic Planning Facilitation
“Sessions that are far greater than the sum of their parts”
Strategic planning is an opportunity to involve your team in shaping the direction of your organization. Our facilitation approach prioritizes alignment, clarity, and shared ownership of goals and actions. We work with you to create space for thoughtful dialogue, real collaboration, and focused decision-making. Rather than presenting prepackaged solutions, our facilitators help your group surface insights from within, drawing on its strengths, diversity, and lived experience. The result is a strategic plan that is both actionable and authentically yours.
At Positive Impact Professional Development, we specialize in guiding organizations through strategic planning in a way that balances structure with adaptability. With experience supporting over 110,000 participants globally, our award-winning facilitators provide the tools and perspective to help you build long-term strategies, not just short-term plans. We support teams in staying engaged with their goals beyond the session itself, through implementation, reflection, and adjustment. Whether you’re mapping out a multi-year roadmap or refining priorities midstream, we bring an objective lens and tested process to help move your vision forward.
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What We Facilitate
Great content is only made better by great facilitators
As an Award-Winning Facilitator and the Owner and Founder of Positive Impact, Will empowers people around the world to lead their best life by blending the art of coaching, integrating mindfulness principles with skills learned from over a decade’s experience with one of the top-three best-known brands globally. The result is a meaningful vision and a gratifying journey. Read more about Will’s journey from Coca-Cola to Positive Impact below.
Lindsay was recently awarded the Top Entrepreneur Coach by the Coach Foundation. She is a passionate entrepreneur, guide, and coach. She brings her experience as a director and divisional head, along with an international coaching certification to help entrepreneurs and business leaders achieve the strategic growth, scale and success they strive for. The focus is on building a highly strategic plan, finance model and leadership team to support this growth.
Bringing over a decade of leadership and development experience ranging from improv stages to executive offices, Michael has worked with over 50,000 people across North America in supporting their own personal and professional development.
Jason is a TEDx speaker, author, certified Life and Corporate Coach, counsellor, and hypnotherapist. With training in Suicide Intervention (ASIST), NLP, MBSR, MBCT, psychology, and peer support, Jason tailors his approach to meet each client’s unique needs. Driven by a passion for building more cohesive teams, he focuses on emotional intelligence, effective communication, and self-restoration—the triad of success.
It was a pleasure to work with Will and Positive Impact. I was both inspired and empowered to co-deliver a meaningful offsite. Their positive incite into leadership performance and emotional resilience gave me clear direction and tactical tools I could apply to my workplace right away. I thoroughly look forward to working with Will again.
– Haley Daniels
Olympian and Motivational Speaker
Thanks for your incredible support, kindness, professionalism, and realness.
It was my sincere pleasure and privilege to work with you on our event.
You are a unique and special human, and I’m grateful that our paths crossed on this project, and look forward to the next time.
– Shauna Grinke, MBA, CPHR
Vice President – People and CultureThe workshop was an incredibly valuable experience for our team — the facilitator created an open, engaging environment that encouraged honest discussion and collaboration. The content was thoughtfully tailored to our team’s specific goals, making the session both relevant and actionable. We’re excited to continue partnering with Positive Impact to build on the great momentum sparked in this session.
– Shannon Charbonneau
Account Director
Treetop Marketing and Promotion Inc.
I’m leaving our session with a sense of optimism that I haven’t had in a while. It was time extremely well spent! I am sure that we all feel much closer and more connected.
– Participant
MDA Geointelligence Engineering Leadership SummitThe environment that was created made me feel comfortable to participate and collaborate with my colleagues. It was very well organized. I liked the outcome of the brainstorm sessions and warmup activities.
– ParticipantThe level of engagement and pace of the training was excellent. Like the fact that this workshop was trainer-guided, but participants lead!
– ParticipantFantastic facilitating most importantly Will understood when to let us talk and when to corral us back on track. Excellent value this afternoon.
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Featured Workshop
COMS Communication Styles
COMS Communication Styles draws inspiration from Paul Costa and Robert McCrae’s research on the Big Five Personality Model, introducing how different personality styles prefer to communicate along the spectrums of result-driven vs. interpersonal and reflective vs. assertive.
COMS is an interactive communication styles exploration. Through answering 8 strategically designed questions, you and your team will gain valuable insights into how individuals tend to communicate and interact. By visualising this into a simple but effective grid and delivering an interactive workshop, it can be instrumental in improving team dynamics, reducing conflict, and fostering more effective communication across the organization. Each of the four identified style has its strengths in different contexts. Your team will leave the session knowing with a deeper understanding and appreciation for diverse communication styles as well as how to leverage each approach and adapt their style to maximize impact and drive positive outcomes.
Strategic Planning
This isn’t just another corporate exercise – it’s a chance for you to engage your team in the planning and execution of the organization and an opportunity to align on strategic planning initiatives and actions.
As strategic planning facilitators, we guide organizations through the strategic planning process. We don’t dictate solutions to you, we enable your groups to co-create strategies based knowledge, experience and diversity. We create an environment conducive to open dialogue, innovation, critical thinking, and collaborative decision-making. This role is distinct in that it focuses on empowering your organization rather than imposing external ideas. Our award-winning facilitators are catalysts for transformative decision-making and planning. We do, however, offer guidance and insight into how other organizations operate and offer suggestions you may wish to implement. To us, strategic planning is more than just a single planning session. We work with our clients to help them navigate the strategic plan throughout the months and even years ahead. With our objective lens, we are well-positioned to offer insights into the strategic plan and execution tactics.
Strategic Planning Facilitator FAQs
What is strategic planning facilitation?
Strategic planning facilitation is a guided process where an external facilitator helps your team align on long-term goals and priorities. It includes structured exercises to clarify vision, define objectives, and identify potential barriers. Unlike consultants who deliver a fixed plan, facilitators focus on drawing insights from within your group. This supports shared ownership and stronger follow-through. At Positive Impact Professional Development, our facilitators enable open conversation and collaborative strategy-making.
How is facilitation different from consulting?
Consultants typically analyze your organization and provide a detailed solution or report. Facilitators, on the other hand, guide your team through structured conversations that surface internal expertise and build consensus. This approach strengthens buy-in because your group co-creates the strategy. It’s particularly useful when clarity, alignment, or participation are priorities. Facilitation empowers your team to own the outcomes.
Why should we use a facilitator for strategic planning?
Facilitators offer structure, objectivity, and dedicated space for your team to think clearly. When leaders participate in the conversation instead of running it, better ideas emerge. A trained facilitator helps navigate conflict, maintain focus, and ensure everyone is heard. This leads to more balanced input and stronger decisions. Our team helps groups move from discussion to meaningful, shared direction.
What outcomes can we expect from a strategic planning session?
You can expect increased clarity around goals, alignment on direction, and a list of actionable priorities. Teams often leave with a shared understanding of roles, timelines, and success measures. The session also creates a foundation for better communication and follow-through. Because the work is done together, there’s usually stronger commitment to implementation. We also help teams think beyond the day itself, so the plan stays active.
How long is a typical strategic planning session?
Session length depends on your goals and the complexity of the work. Some teams engage in a half-day session to recalibrate goals, while others commit to a full two-day offsite. We’ll help you determine the right format based on your capacity and needs. Pre-session discovery ensures we use the time effectively. Post-session support is also available if you want help carrying the plan forward.
Who should be involved in the strategic planning process?
Ideally, you include a diverse cross-section of your organization—those who hold authority and those who influence outcomes. This might involve leadership, team managers, or key stakeholders from different departments. Including multiple perspectives helps surface blind spots and creates broader ownership. We’ll help you clarify who needs to be in the room and who should be consulted. Participation drives both quality and commitment.
What happens after the strategic planning session?
After the session, we often help teams translate ideas into ongoing implementation plans. This may include action tracking, milestone check-ins, or team debriefs. Our facilitators can support follow-up conversations or train internal leads to carry things forward. The goal is to keep the strategy alive, not just documented. We also provide frameworks and templates to support progress over time.
Can you help us revisit or refine a past strategic plan?
Yes, we regularly work with teams who need to review or realign existing strategies. This might involve reassessing priorities, updating goals, or engaging a new leadership group. A facilitated approach helps reframe past work and bring fresh perspective. It also makes space for honest discussion about what’s working and what isn’t. Whether you’re starting from scratch or building on past efforts, we can help.
