Kela’s Approach to Strategic Planning  &                                      
Select List of Facilitation and Strategic Planning Support Work

To see a diagram of the Kela Approach to Strategic Planning, click here.   Using this approach Kela Associates has designed, facilitated, and helped record the results of the following strategic planning projects in Hawaii in addition to those undertaken on the mainland for a number of other organizations:

• Academy 21 (formerly Hawaii Change Leaders Project)/Hawaii Educational Association — Honolulu, HI: providing business planning counsel, coaching, and consulting assistance to help an innovative nonprofit educational leadership development program in Hawaii develop a business plan that would enable it to pursue mission, enhance 21st Century skills acquisition by Hawaii’s students, and achieve sustainable profitability no longer dependent principally on philanthropy; – http://www.academy21.org

• Aloha Medical Mission – Honolulu, HI: planning, facilitating, and preparing summary report for  Aloha Medical Mission’s Board Retreat — www.alohamedicalmission.org  

• Hawaii Department of Health, Chronic Disease Management and Control Division – Honolulu, HI: assisting in facilitating meetings and supporting development of the Branch’s strategic plan, including addressing the social determinants of chronic disease and ethnic disparities for 2012 and beyond;
  

• Hawaii Electricians Market Enhancement Program Fund — Honolulu, HI: designing and facilitating a strategic planning Summit that is bringing together 90+ electrical contractors and IBEW Local 1186 union electricians to devise win-win strategies and new methods of collaboration to enhance the market and market share for unionized electrical contractors in Hawai’i;
  

• Hawaii Wildlife Fund/Maui Reef Fund — Maui, HI: providing coaching and strategic consulting support to the Executive Director and the members of the Maui Reef Fund regarding vision, stakeholder analysis, and priority strategies to assist leaders in the Maui marine tourism industry protect the coral reefs on which their businesses depend — www.wildhawaii.org; 

• He’e Nalu Learning Center/Spirit Sessions Program – Kailua, Oahu, HI: providing coaching and consulting assistance in preparation and implementation of a strategic planning grant proposal for an innovative youth development program that enables adjudicated teenage girls and boys to learn how to surf, to get college credit for an intensified college level ocean studies course, and in the process develop self-esteem, heightened sense of personal responsibility, new awareness of personal potential, and other important benefits – http://surferspirit.org/

• HKL Castle Foundation – Kailua, Oahu, HI: assist the Executive Director in surveying near shore communities on Oahu, Maui, Kauai, the Big Island, and Molokai’i to determine their perceptions of community capacity building needs to effectively protect and restore near shore marine resources and help the Foundation develop a dashboard of indicators for which it can hold itself accountable for building needed community capacity — www.castlefoundation.org;

• HUGS (Help, Understanding & Group Support) — Honolulu, HI: providing executive coaching to the organization’s Executive Director to help meet new performance expectations of the Board; facilitating a board retreat on strategic planning and revisiting success criteria and measures for the organization; leading a board-staff team in evaluating existing programs and exploring opportunities for program expansion and/or new program growth in light of increased organizational capacity and financial strength of the organization — http://www.hugslove.org 

• Kalihi-Palama Health Center: providing executive coaching to the Executive Director of the Center and helping build Executive Team leadership, improved communication, and support. — www.kphc.org

• Kamehameha School: assisting in planning and facilitating a series of meetings between Kamehameha School and the Kaka’ako Improvement Association to develop proactive and systematic responses to a series of public policy issues affecting this neighborhood, including new legislative proposals on workforce housing requirements, transit related issues, and overall community development. — www.ksbe.edu
  

• Kanu Hawaii: planning and facilitating a strategic planning and performance assessment ADVANCE meeting between the Board and senior staff of the organization, including a review of Board roles and responsibilities and how to create more engaging and effective campaigns. — www.kanuhawaii.org
  

• Na Lei Aloha Foundation – Honolulu, HI: designing  the Foundation’s new Tables for Ten program to extend the Bridge of Friendship and helping to facilitate two of the initial sets of Tables for Ten — www.naleialoha.org;

• University of Hawaii, School of Accountancy (Shidler Business College): designing, facilitating and reporting on a strategic planning process involving students, faculty, alumni and practitioners for the School of Accountancy;

• USS Missouri Memorial Association – Honolulu, HI: designing and facilitating a staff retreat to explore and make recommendations for improving the visitor experience for those visiting the USS Battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor, while retaining the ship’s historical authenticity, memorializing those who served their country, and enhancing the financial sustainability of the organization that preserves the ship. — http://www.ussmissouri.com/

• Waioli – Nuhou Corporations – Lihue, Kauai, HI: designing and facilitating a three meeting strategic planning process and preparing a final strategic and business plan for a nonprofit board that oversees the preservation and management of three historic sites and other lands and facilities on Kauai — www.grovefarm.net.
  

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