Deepening Organizational Alignment, Understanding, and Strategy for Mission-Driven Leaders
Strategic advisory and inclusive planning for nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions navigating complex change.
Lotus Economics, LLC is a strategic consulting firm based in the Los Angeles region. It builds on decades of mission-driven and place-based work to support the community and the institutions that contribute to a thriving region.
We help mission-driven organizations understand and meet the needs of their community using strategic planning as a learning and alignment tool. We have experience co-creating successful strategic frameworks for some of Los Angeles’ most prominent philanthropic, arts, and educational institutions.
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Areas of Practice
Strategic Planning
When boards, staff, and community partners are not fully aligned, even the most dedicated teams can struggle to deliver on their mission. We design and facilitate multi-stakeholder engagements that bring diverse perspectives to the table, providing the space and structure needed for substantive discussions about the future.
This collaborative approach helps build the internal alignment necessary to develop an implementable strategic framework that clearly communicates your organization’s vision, mission, and priorities. Leaders can use the framework to guide their decision-making and future operational plans.
Targeted Discovery & Insight
Inclusive planning approaches can generate a wealth of data and complexity, the breadth of which can prove overwhelming and stall progress. We specialize in analyzing and distilling qualitative stakeholder input gathered through interviews, workshops, and discussions into clear context documents that allow nonprofit leaders to understand their strengths, the critical issues they face, and help them make decisions informed by the wisdom of their stakeholders.
Facilitating Key Discussions
Having an external partner to help structure important conversations allows leaders to prepare and then fully participate in these discussions. We can help design and facilitate retreats, key input workshops, and strategy meetings to generate ideas or clarify a path forward in a way that respects participants’ time and perspectives.
With so many demands on critical resources, leaders need to deploy the valuable time and efforts of their stakeholders, board members, and staff in a way that is most effective at furthering their mission. Surfacing misunderstandings and misalignment in a facilitated conversation can help these key parties focus on their shared goals.
Executive Advising
Lotus Economics can serve as a confidential "thought partner" to help navigate organizational change by drawing on cross-sector experience working with other leaders creating new norms and developing implementable solutions.
Place-Based Economic Research and Policy
Clear, thoughtful research and policy analysis can help persuade stakeholders to become your partners in pursuit of meaningful change. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, analytical tools, and more than a decade leading place-based economic research at think tanks, Lotus Economics can develop briefs, profiles, and studies that help inform better decision–making.
Get in Touch
Please contact us to schedule a 30 minute conversation to discuss how we could help you address a challenge facing your organization.