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You have a plan. Nobody’s touched it since the planning workshop.

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 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.

None of these exactly? Tell us what the plan keeps running into.

Strategy that gets used
28
Years shaping strategy across sectors
1
Page your whole plan lives on
Practical
Not left in a drawer
Facilitated, not imposedBuilt with your people, so they own it and use it.
Public and privateStrategic plans inside a provincial legislature, Crown corporations, and industry.
Certified facilitatorMBTI®, DiSC®, Five Behaviors®, Lumina Spark®, Thomas-Kilmann (TKI®), FIRO-B®, 360s. CPHR, 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. The analysis and the implementation work sit behind it.

Where we come in

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.

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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 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.

Facilitation on its own

Need just the working session? The planning facilitation can also run as a standalone session.

A hand holding an orienteering map, plotting the route
How an engagement moves

Nothing hidden. Four stages.

01

Listen

Your goals, your constraints, in your words.

You getWhere you really are, before anyone argues about where you’re going.
02

Map the terrain

Where you stand, against where you want to be.

You getThe real size of the gap, named plainly.
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 getA plan that stays in use.
The Plan-on-a-Page Template
Free template

The Plan-on-a-Page Template

The one-page format we use to keep a whole strategy visible, owned, and moving.

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Let’s get your plan moving.

The first conversation is free. Bring the strategy that never left the binder.