The Leading Strategic Planning and Management Training Firm

We help our clients focus, make better decisions and grow by instilling the ability to think and act strategically.

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LBL Strategies is an international leader educating, training, and consulting strategy professionals within the discipline of Strategic Planning and Management. Headquartered in Chicago, LBL’s global network of trainers and facilitators are based in Washington DC, San Jose California, Austin Texas, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. We develop the skills and capabilities to help professionals and their organizations think and act strategically. Whether you are looking to lead your organization through a strategic management process, grow professionally in the discipline of strategic management or become ASP industry certified our training programs and facilitation services can help.

Strategy Consulting and Facilitation

Strategy Consulting and Facilitation

After thirty years of strategy and performance management consulting, we facilitate highly interactive and collaborative work sessions to move help organizations develop, execute and manage strategy.
University-Based Training and Certification

University-Based Training and Certification

As a founding member of the Association for Strategic Planning, LBL has been at the forefront of strategy training and education for over 30 years.

What Our Clients Say

“I personally like a straightforward, logical, hence teachable approach to strategic management, which this program well provided.”

Dr. James Stewart

Collegiate Professor
University of Maryland University College

“This is the best summary presentation on strategic planning management tools and techniques that I have seen to date.”

Chris Sleath

Director Virtual Movements AFRICAME
Campus Crusade for Christ International

“The program has helped me in my new position to develop coaching and workshop materials for our employees.”

Victor O. Okereke

Internal Consultant
King County – Washington State

“I am so glad I took the program! I now have my own consulting business for public relations and strategic planning. The program enabled me to do this!”

Myra Jolivet

OwnerCenter
Four Consulting

Strategy Certification and Other Training Program

Start making impactful decisions for your organization today by enrolling in one of our programs.

Our certification and other professional development programs are offered in association with the George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, part of the College of Professional Studies.

Mastering Strategy: Strategic Management Performance System Certification

Mastering Strategy: Strategic Management Performance System Certification

An intensive, hands-on program designed to build skill sets in the management of strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation.
Mastering Agile Organizational Design Certification

Mastering Agile Organizational Design Certification

The practice of constructing organizational components and aligning the design and its components with the strategy.
Strategic Thinking in the 21st Century

Strategic Thinking in the 21st Century

Align day-to-day decisions to your organization's strategic direction.
Strategic Agility & OKRs

Strategic Agility & OKRs

This one-day interactive workshop is designed to cultivate agile decision-making, with a special focus on utilizing OKRs
Strategic Foresight and Scenario-Based Planning

Strategic Foresight and Scenario-Based Planning

Scenario-Based Planning provides a framework for planning in uncertain times by giving organizations a structured way to think about the future.
Board and Governance Training

Board and Governance Training

To succeed, effective governance skills are essential. 

Strategic Management Blog

From Theory to Practice

 
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A Tribute to Jane Sommers.

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Achieving a Delicate Balance

I want to make a point about a dynamic that too often occurs in mission driven organizations.  To strike the...
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The Secret Power of “Community Surveys” to Accelerate Agile Organization Design

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Leadership as a Sacred Trust

George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about the...
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02 Oct

“Sensing” & “Use of Self”
How Agile Leverages the Human Factor

Case Study 1 – What is the Context? A regional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) proposed a novel solution to a...
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09 Sep

Future of Work and Work of the Future in Government

Much has been written about the future of work and the work of the future by several think tanks and...
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