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You have a plan. Nobody's touched it since the offsite.

The binder's on a shelf, the sticky notes are in a drawer, and the day to day swallowed it whole. Contour North builds a plan on a page your team actually walks, with owners, dates, and a way to keep score.

Ellice Edey reading an orienteering map in the forest, choosing a route
Sound familiar?

A good strategy is easy to write. It is hard to keep alive.

The binder problemWe paid for a strategy. It is beautiful. Nobody uses it.
Everything is priority oneTwelve initiatives, one team, and no way to say what waits.
The plan and the work do not touchThe strategy says one thing. The calendar says another.
Strategy that gets walked
28
Years shaping strategy across sectors
1
Page your whole plan lives on
0
Strategies left in a drawer
Facilitated, not dictatedBuilt with your people, so they own it and actually use it.
Public and privateStrategic plans inside a provincial legislature, Crown corporations, and industry.
Certified facilitatorMBTI, DiSC, Five Behaviors, Lumina Spark. MBA, C.Dir.
What changes
Your strategy becomes something you use, not store.

A plan on a page, with owners and dates and a way to keep score, that survives contact with a busy week.

Where Ellice shapes

Strategy, from the first draft to the follow through.

Not a document that impresses the board once. The plan and the habits that keep a team pointed the same way.

Strategic planning

A clear direction with priorities you can defend, so the whole team knows where it is headed and why.

Facilitated planning sessions

Sessions run so your people do the thinking and leave owning the plan, not nodding along to ours.

Operating & business plans

The strategy translated into a plan you can actually run, with numbers and steps that hold together.

Org design & structure

Roles and reporting lines that fit the strategy, so the structure helps the work instead of fighting it.

Priorities & scorecards

A short list of what matters most and a simple way to keep score, so progress is visible, not guessed.

Strategy that gets implemented

Check-ins that keep the plan moving after the offsite. The facilitation can also run as a standalone session.

How an engagement moves

Nothing hidden. Four stages.

Something concrete in your hands at the end of each one.

01

Listen

Your goals, your constraints, in your words.

You getThe real picture, not last year's deck.
02

Map the terrain

Where you actually stand, against where you want to be.

You getAn honest read of the gap.
03

Chart the route

The plan on a page: priorities, owners, dates.

You getA plan that fits on one page.
04

Walk it with you

Check-ins so the plan stays alive, not shelved.

You getDelivery, not a binder.
Free template

The Plan-on-a-Page Template

The one-page format we use to keep a whole strategy visible, owned, and moving. Plain, practical, no jargon.

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