Where the Strategy Journey Begins

OLC STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Organizational Leadership Coaching® (OLC), LLC

Strategic Development • Leadership Advancement • Organizational Transformation

 

WELCOME TO THE OLC STRATEGIC INITIATIVES PAGE

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At Organizational Leadership Coaching® (OLC), LLC, strategy is not an add-on.
It is one of the three pillars embedded in our very name:

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1. Organizational understanding

2. Leadership development

3. Coaching excellence

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This page introduces you to the OLC approach to strategy formation, strategic conceptualization, organizational planning, cultural alignment, and movement toward measurable outcomes.

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Our purpose is simple:

 

To help leaders and coaches develop the ability not only to understand strategy, but to think strategically, plan strategically, lead strategically, and execute strategically—all in real time, with real people, toward real outcomes.

 

We train leaders and coaches to:

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• Conceptualize strategic movement

• Work with systemic realities within organizations

• Facilitate organizational development

• Mobilize teams toward vision and values

• Measure progress, performance, and return on investment

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Because you cannot lead without a strategic mindset.

 

Leadership without strategy is reactive. Strategy without leadership is aimless.
We equip leaders to avoid both.

 

THE ORIGIN OF OLC’S STRATEGIC FOCUS

 

Our strategic offerings began with one question:

 

“How do we prepare coaches not only to coach individuals, but to serve as trusted advisors to leaders and organizations?”

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We wanted a coaching methodology that:

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• Trains exceptional coaches

• Produces leaders of character

• Prepares practitioners to engage organizational complexity

• Equips them to understand systemic realities

• Enables them to walk alongside executives, pastors, managers, boards, and teams as strategic partners

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For this reason, OLC was intentionally named:

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Organizational Leadership Coaching® —because we believe the future belongs to leaders and coaches who can do all three.

 

This is why our programs are not niche-focused.

 

We develop coaches who can:

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• Influence culture

• Facilitate strategic conversations

• Help leaders conceptualize movement

• Support strategic planning processes

• Coach leaders toward internal clarity and external execution

• Build future leaders who will carry the mission forward

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Strategic thinking is not extra.

It is core to the OLC identity.

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WHERE STRATEGY APPEARS IN OLC TRAINING

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We intentionally integrate strategic thinking and strategy planning across all our programs:

 

Primer Course:

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Introduces the idea of strategic purpose, mission alignment, and conceptual thinking.

 

Competent Course:

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Begins shaping the leader’s ability to see whole systems, identify barriers, and begin initial movement planning.

 

Professional Course:

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Places early tools of strategic planning in the hands of the developing coach.

 

We introduce:

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• Foundational strategy models

• Movement conceptualization

• Environmental scanning

• Organizational culture assessment

• Facilitation skills for strategic conversations

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Although time limits how far we can go, we plant the seeds that prepare them for advanced study.

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Lead Attitudes of Great Leadership Course:

 

Here, the strategic emphasis grows significantly.
Leaders learn:

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• Why strategy is essential

• How strategy historically developed

• What makes strategy succeed or fail

• How culture, climate, and organizational identity impact performance

• How to create movement toward mission and values

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They also practice hands-on strategy planning, including:

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• Vision extraction

• Systems mapping

• Strategy cascades

• Team alignment

• Tactical execution

• Review cycles

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All of this prepares them for the advanced strategy curriculum that is coming next.

 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF STRATEGIC PLANNING

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Why Strategy Matters for Every Leader

 

No leader can succeed without a mindset for strategy.

 

History shows this repeatedly.

 

Strategic planning as we know it today evolved from:

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• Military strategy (Sun Tzu, Clausewitz)

• Post-industrial organizational planning

• Mid-20th-century quality movements

• Systems theory and behavioral science

• Japanese post-war manufacturing excellence, deeply influenced by the work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming

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Deming’s influence in Japan led to the creation of one of the most effective strategic methodologies in modern history: Hoshin Kanri, or Hoshin Strategy Planning.

 

This method:

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• Aligns strategy from top to bottom

• Integrates culture with execution

• Ensures clarity of mission

• Maintains continuous improvement

• Creates measurable movement over time

• Embeds strategy into the daily life of the organization

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In our book Lead-Attitudes of Great Leadership, we discuss how Hoshin Planning—
what you call “potion strategy planning”— emerged as a strategic discipline that helps organizations move intentionally toward mission accomplishment.

 

This history matters because no leader can lead without a mind toward strategy.

 

• Vision is not enough.

• Passion is not enough.

• Skill is not enough.

 

A leader must know how to think, plan, execute, measure, and sustain movement.

This is why strategy is baked into every OLC course, not as a subject, but as a leadership necessity.

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THE FUTURE: THE OLC STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE®

Launching in 2027

 

As our students progress through ACC, PCC, and MCC levels—and integrate themselves into organizations—they discover that strategic competence is not optional. It becomes the primary need leaders look for when inviting a trusted advisor into the inner workings of their institution.

 

For this reason, we are already designing a full OLC Strategic Development Institute®, which will:

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• Train coaches and leaders as strategic practitioners

• Equip them with advanced strategic design competencies

• Certify them to support organizations in long-term implementation

• Prepare them to embed strategic culture into the organization

• Enable them to reproduce and sustain strategic practices into the future

 

This institute will be entirely dedicated to:

 

Strategy Development • Strategy Execution • Strategy Embedding

 

It will serve leaders, managers, nonprofits, ministries, and executive teams seeking authentic, measurable strategic movement.

 

WHAT WE OFFER RIGHT NOW

 

If you’ve arrived on this page because your organization needs strategy development, we invite you to contact us.

 

We provide:

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• Full strategic planning engagements

• Customized strategic design

• Culture alignment mapping

• Strategy implementation pathways

• Execution management plans

• Tailored organizational models (never cookie-cutter)

• Leadership development integrated into strategy

• Support for long-term cultural sustainability

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Every plan we deliver is custom-built, based on:

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• Your assets

• Your values

• Your mission

• Your people

• Your operational realities

• Your desired future

 

Our goal is always the same:

 

To help leaders accomplish their vision and produce an aligned, mission-driven organizational culture.

 

FREE RESOURCE FOR YOU

 

We invite you to download the complimentary PDF chapter from Lead-Attitudes of Great Leadership that addresses strategic development.

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It is provided at no cost as a way of giving you immediate value.

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AN INVITATION

 

If your organization is ready for:

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• Strategic movement

• Cultural alignment

• Vision execution

• Organizational clarity

• A trusted partner in the process

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We would be honored to walk with you.

 

Contact us today for a consultation.

 

We are ready to support your future.