Who we work with

Organizations large enough to have a strategy and small enough that management capacity is the binding constraint, which is most of them across this region.

NonprofitsProgrammes rarely end on their own, funder cycles pull in different directions, and the stop list is both hardest and most valuable here.

Public BodiesStatutory obligations set a floor on activity, so the discretionary portion has to be prioritised with unusual honesty.

Healthcare OrganizationsClinical and administrative priorities compete for the same leadership attention, and the competition is rarely made explicit.

EducationDistrict and institutional planning where initiative fatigue is the dominant obstacle rather than any shortage of ideas.

Family BusinessesSuccession and strategy are the same conversation, and separating them produces a plan that cannot be executed.

Manufacturing and DistributionCross-border operations where a single plan applied to two sites tends to fail at the second one.

Planning in the Rio Grande Valley

Leadership teams here are thin. Organizations of a given size in this region typically carry fewer managers than equivalents in a large metro, which lowers the real change ceiling and makes the stop list more consequential rather than less.

Grant cycles drive nonprofit strategy more than boards do. A funder timetable can dictate what an organization commits to for three years, and planning that ignores the cycle produces a document the finance team quietly disregards.

Cross-border operations need two plans. Businesses with sites in McAllen and Reynosa face different labour practice, regulation and infrastructure, and a single plan applied to both will fail at whichever site was not the model.

Planning happens in two languages. Sessions across the Valley routinely run in English and Spanish, and facilitation conducted only in English hears from a narrower group than the room contains.

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Where we work

McAllenEdinburgMissionPharrWeslacoHarlingenBrownsvilleRio Grande CityLaredoCorpus ChristiSan Antonio