Making an Impact: Strategic Planning to Achieve Your Organization's DE&I Goals

Tuesday, April 30, 8:30 - 11:00 AM
Stinson LLP
Hybrid via Zoom

Every organization, committee, and team needs a strategic plan to intentionally move the needle. Strategic planning is a valuable tool to define your goals and create a road map to achieve those goals.

Join TCDIP and Kathy Graves for an interactive workshop about how your organization can develop an effective strategic plan that incorporates diversity, equity, and inclusion at every step of the process. Attendees will learn the value, principles, and components of strategic planning and how diversity, equity, and inclusion goals can be woven into the planning process.

This interactive workshop will include scenario planning, interactive time for questions, and small group breakouts to practice goal setting and problem solving around issues common to law firms and corporate legal departments.

Participants will learn:

• The terminology, processes, and components of effective strategic planning
• Facilitation skills to bring stakeholders into agreement about priorities
• Common challenges and related solutions for developing a strategic plan
• Ways to infuse and weave DE&I goals into a strategic plan
• Tools to measure progress on a plan

Kathy Graves
Kathy Graves is a partner with Parenteau Graves, a strategy and communications planning firm based in the Twin Cities. She has led planning processes for dozens of organizations across the country, including Page Education Foundation, Midwestern Higher Education Compact, Bush Foundation, Portland (ME) Museum of Art, Philadelphia Contemporary, Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Good Acre, multiple municipalities, and many more. She is the recipient of a Minnesota Newspaper Award for feature writing, a Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association Excellence Award, The Minneapolis Award, and the ARC Changemaker Award. She also is the co-author and editor of Indians in Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press) and a former Mondale Policy Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Her board service includes the Friends of the Hennepin County Library, PACER Center, Mayflower Church, and Mind Body Solutions.