About

Stratus, Inc. is a strategic planning consultancy offering customized strategic planning programs to prepare clients to succeed in these rapidly changing times. Stratus’s process designs merge strategic and scenario planning and organizational and individual learning methodologies to achieve high impact transformational experiences for organizations and community groups.

Stratus was founded in 1996 as a boutique strategic planning organization focused on creating transformative processes and strategies for its clients. All processes and approaches are customized to optimally achieve the client’s desired goals and outcomes. Stratus draws from a wide array of strategic planning methodologies in designing each client process that include SWOT analysis, value proposition development, vision and mission statement development, scenario planning, success formula methodology, systems thinking, and three horizons planning. From the beginning, scenario planning has been a core methodology within many of Stratus’ process designs. Often a single component of scenario planning can be shaped to provide a profound learning experience for the client.

Stratus has served the nonprofit, for-profit, and government (federal and state) sectors since its founding. Stratus has extensive experience in higher education; public health and healthcare; scientific research organizations, communities and supporting platforms; and in a wide range of professional, scientific, and community associations.

Our Guiding Principles

EMPOWERING LEADERS

through transference of knowledge and experiential learning of enhanced strategic and decision dialogue tools.

BUILDING BUY-IN & OWNERSHIP OF STRATEGIES

in client organizations through full engagement and highly interactive processes of strategy development.

DESIGNING & DELIVERING HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED PROCESSES & APPROACHES

to optimally meet the needs and desired outcomes that are unique to each client.

COLLABORATING FOR SUCCESS

means ensuring the client is actively involved and engaged throughout the process. This leads to effective learning of the strategy methodologies so clients are comfortable and prepared to continue applying the tools and content they develop in the process.

CREATING COLLECTIVE CONNECTION

through highly interactive workshops, designed in face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid spaces.

BUILDING ADAPTIVE CAPABILITY

within client organizations to better prepare them for this uncertain and highly dynamic time in human history.

ENHANCING THE STRATEGIC CONVERSATION OF LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITIES

accomplished by:

Highlighting and deepening their understanding of the social, technological, economic, political/regulatory, and environmental driving forces reshaping the world in which they operate. (scenario planning methodology)
Creating a set of relevant, divergent, and insightful scenarios on the future that can act as a platform for ongoing strategic dialogue, decision making, and monitoring of the external environment. (scenario planning methodology)
Providing a means to perceive and understand an organization’s distinctive competency and how it can create a differential value proposition from that competency (success formula methodology)
Exploring the strategic implications of those future scenarios on their mission and goals as an organization or community.
Providing a new and more effective language with which to proactively and strategically discuss problems and opportunities.