Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Achieving Strategic Clarity
Program Overview
Achieving your mission is hard when you're trying to do everything. In this program, your leadership team will define your organization’s impact goals and learn how to make difficult decisions with confidence by getting clear on who you serve and what activities will create the most impact.
Who: Nonprofit leadership teams
Format: Online with structured team discussions and coaching support
Price per team: $15,000
Next session: AUGUST 2025; Enrollment opens on April 15
Program Benefits
Nonprofits that participate in this program are:
- More effective and efficient in how they allocate resources—time, talent, and dollars
- More confident when making difficult decisions
- Better equipped to explain their vision and strategy to their funders
In this program, your team will:
- Get clear on your impact goals by creating an intended impact statement
- Map out how your organization will achieve its goals by creating a simple, yet powerful, theory of change
Who Should Participate?
This program is designed for nonprofit senior leadership teams of three to six leaders—which is often the CEO/ED and their direct reports.
Top reasons organizations participate:
- You’re doing too much—you need a way to say "no" in order to focus your work
- You want to ensure equity is central to your impact goals
- You’re preparing for a strategic planning process
- You want to revisit your basic understanding of who you are as an organization in response to a changing world
Why Do This Work as a Leadership Team: Getting clear on your organization’s impact goals is only effective if your leadership team is bought in. Your leadership team’s alignment on strategy ensures that senior leaders collectively hold the strategic vision and are all moving toward the same goals when making decisions and setting priorities. This program teaches your leadership team critical strategic management skills that you can continue to use over time.
How It Works
Your team is in the driver’s seat and can choose the pace that is right for you. Expert Bridgespan coaches provide support for your team’s point person, or project lead, via email, weekly check-ins, and one-on-one coaching at critical points throughout the program. Your total time commitment through the self-paced process will be about 25 to 30 hours per person over approximately 12 to 18 weeks.
Get Started
Step 1: Complete the Request More Information form at the bottom of this page to get started or email us.
Step 2: A member of the Leadership Accelerator team will contact you within seven days to schedule a discovery call. We’ll ask you about your organization and team size.
Step 3: If we agree that the program is a good fit, we’ll send you an enrollment form!
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Related Resources
The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that strives to make the world more equitable and just. Since 2000, we have had the privilege of advising and collaborating with many of the world’s most extraordinary social change leaders including philanthropists, nonprofit and NGO leaders, and impact investors.
We are passionate about helping social change leaders find solutions to economic and social barriers that perpetuate inequities and prevent individuals, families, and communities from having access to opportunities they need to thrive. We use rigorous research to gain insights that help our clients solve problems and achieve their goals.
Our services include strategy consulting and advising, sourcing and diligence, and leadership team support. We take what we learn from this work and build on it with original research, identifying best practices and innovative ideas to share with the social sector.
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