Strategic Thinking & Design
How We Help Schools Create Strategy
Triangle Associates partners with schools to create totally
customized, data-driven approaches to making strategy.
Case Examples
We help schools of all types and in all sorts of circumstances formulate strategy.
The vignettes below illustrate a few of our recent strategy engagements.
Following a Legend
Following retirement of a beloved long-time head, a large urban PreK-12 school wanted a community-inclusive process to chart new directions to ensure more decades of market-leading success.
Sustaining the Mission
An established and storied Pre-K through Grade 12 in a major market needed a strategy to capitalize on a pathbreaking and proven model of educational success for a new century of its history.
Saving the School
A small Pre-K through Grade 6 school needed a strategy to build enrollment in a declining market. Triangle helped the board and administration find opportunity in the white space between competing schools.
Launching a New Headship
A first-time head of school facing pent-up demand for change needed a way to gather stakeholder input while keeping a clear eye on the business context facing a Pre-K through Grade 8 school.
Making Strategy Real
The real challenge of strategy isn't coming up with good technical solutions; rather, it is all about finding the right levers to pull to embed
a new strategy into an entrenched school culture. Peter Drucker famously said that "culture eats strategy for breakfast", and our job is to keep that from happening after we are done.
