What could your community achieve through more collaborative planning?
Raise your community's
social prosperity.
In a time of growing polarization, local councils, boards, and nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in fostering dialogue and bringing people together to achieve common goals.
Social Prosperity is the wealth created when people work together courageously.
Let us help your community or organization unite, embrace its potential, and shape a thriving future.
Elevate your approach to Visioning, Strategic Planning & Community Engagement
Courageous
Embracing complexity takes courage. As civic facilitators, we create spaces for open and inclusive dialogue—bringing people together to tackle even the most sensitive and challenging community topics.
Mindful
Strategic planning begins with understanding. We build consensus on what matters, respect differing perspectives, and guide thoughtful change that honors a community’s history and aspirations.
Purposeful
A strategic plan is a living guide. We help organizations and communities set adaptable goals grounded in their values, ensuring accountability and focus on long-term success, even in times of change.
Expert Civic Facilitators for Collaborative Decision-Making
When facing complex challenges, effective civic facilitation is essential to fostering collaboration and innovative problem-solving. Unlike complicated issues, which follow a clear structure and can be solved with technical expertise, complex challenges involve multiple stakeholders, shifting dynamics, and no single "right" answer.
As your civic facilitator, we guide structured conversations that bring together community members, stakeholders, and partners. Through open communication, active listening, and shared understanding, we help build consensus and drive well-supported decisions.
Whether addressing sensitive issues or planning for the future, we’ll help you navigate complexity with confidence and achieve meaningful, lasting outcomes.
What our clients are saying
“The greatest ambition for a Cultural Plan is to unite a city’s diverse population in a bold and authentic vision of shared desires and expectations. Matt designed and facilitated a series of public meetings, held throughout the city, affording the breadth of our community the opportunity to meaningfully participate in creative and energizing discussions.
Participants evaluated the sessions saying things like, “best public meeting ever” to “fun” and “unexpected”. Matt was able to work magic with rooms ranging from 20 to 200 participants. The meetings were inclusive, respectful and inviting and the insights we gathered from the exercises Matt led were priceless.
Thanks to Matt’s expertly-executed public process, our community’s Cultural Plan won’t just be a list of what we are planning to do – but a place of real connection and excitement for the people of our community who will continue to play a vital role in transforming that plan into reality."
Jody Ulich, President, Arts Council of Fort Worth & Tarrant Counties
"John Little and Matt Lehrman are a dynamic duo of facilitation and we’ve engaged them twice.
First, they were instrumental in elevating a series of public meetings on the complex issue of fire and emergency services into welcoming and meaningful community dialogues.
From that experience, the Town Council trusted them to guide its own visioning workshop - which resulted in finding clarity on shared objectives while, perhaps most importantly, gathering consensus on Council Members’ mutual expectations for their own respectful, factual, thoughtful, and thorough process of governing."
Gary Neiss, Town Administrator, Town of Carefree, AZ
“We engaged Matt Lehrman to lead the strategic planning and visioning process for a new organization that was created by merging two long-standing entities. Among the challenges Matt helped us navigate was the blending of two distinctly different board cultures.
Matt created an inclusive and collaborative process that helped our board meaningfully hear and consider the perspectives of its many different stakeholders, ultimately leading to the development of a plan that was unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed.
Without a doubt, Matt was the right person for this assignment. His contribution to our success was invaluable."
Richard Kasper, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Jewish Philanthropy of Greater Phoenix
Inspiring Courageous Conversations, One Community at a Time
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How to Begin
Schedule a free call
Let’s discuss what your organization hopes and needs to achieve and review the options for collaborative decision-making that can get it there.
Request a proposal.
Invite us to design a detailed proposal to guide your governing council, board of directors, or other leadership team to a compelling and shared vision of its desired future.
Proceed with confidence.
From the moment you say go, trust that we’ll keep your strategic planning process welcoming, thoughtful, and productive.
