Strategic Planning

For over a decade, Cormier Associates has been helping communities and organizations plan their futures using a planning technique called Future Search.

Future Search is a proven participatory planning process that makes it possible to reach consensus among diverse viewpoints by creating new ways of talking, listening, and coming to agreement on an issue, a vision, or a plan. Based on principles that embrace diversity of ideas and the ability to dialogue, Future Search has been used successfully throughout the world - in businesses, communities, healthcare, colleges, non profits and the government - for revitalizing spirit and creating social, technical, and economic breakthroughs that typically are not possible to achieve with traditional planning methods.

In addition to Future Search, we also use a variety of planning methods that offer the economy and creativity that come from large group interventions. These include Open Space and Fast Cycle Change, as well as customized options that tailor the principles of large group design with our expertise in facilitating these types of meetings.

These are some of the issues we have tackled in our large group interventions:

Community Accessibility in Leon Nicaragua
Departmental Redesign at Warner Lambert
Creating Safe Schools in Springfield, MA
Homelessness in Northampton MA
Strategy Prioritization For Bunker Hill Community College
Community Planning in Door County WI
Strategic Planning For the Northampton Chamber of Commerce,
Process Redesign for the City of Los Angeles Regional Transit Authority
Natural Resources Sustainability for Connecticut
Strategic Prioritization for Warner Lambert Consumer Healthcare
Client Centered Service Framework for Regina Saskatchewan
Strategic Planning For the Institute for Community Living
Visioning For Hampden-Wilbraham School District