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.

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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.
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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.

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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.
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Mastering Agile Organizational Design Certification

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

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

This one-day interactive workshop is designed to cultivate agile decision-making, with a special focus on utilizing OKRs
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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.
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Board and Governance Training

To succeed, effective governance skills are essential. 

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From Theory to Practice

 
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12 Jan

The “Great Resignation” Reveals Leadership’s “Achilles’ Heel” in Effective Change

By Richard Thayer, William Zybach, and Sally Parker, Syngineering Solutions Several of our friends and relatives have left their jobs over the past...
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13 Dec

Good Governance and Agility – Two Sides of the Same Coin

Will Rogers’ quote, “Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there,” is...
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13 Dec

Strategic Planning and Management: The Argument for Professional Credentialing

The world is increasingly uncertain – progressively complicated by misinformation, disinformation, and digital interference by increased technological disruptions such as...
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16 Nov

A System for Excellence in Healthcare: Criterion to Meet and a Process to Achieve

The Baldrige Excellence Framework and its Criteria for Performance Excellence incorporate proven practices on current leadership and management issues into...
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12 Aug

Resilience is More Than a Plan – It is a Strategy

Develop strategic objectives for increasing your organization’s adaptive capacity and your ability to manage uncertainty and constant change. After surviving...
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17 Jun

Strategy Execution and Culture – The Glue that Binds.

Chess is often used as a symbol or example of strategy – and for good reason. The metaphor for chess...
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