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Strategies By Design (SBD) is a northern California-based organization that has been assisting leaders, non-profit organizations, private businesses, governmental agencies, and communities since 1992. SBD delivers a full range of consulting services including organization development and capacity building, strategic planning, qualitative and quantitative evaluation and research, and facilitation. We believe in building the capacity of organizations to plan, implement and evaluate. Our projects are collaborative and individualized, tailored to meet your needs and scaled to fit your organization.
In addition to the consulting services identified above, Associates and subcontract relationships are available to meet a wide variety of highly specialized client needs such as team building, conflict resolution, meeting and event planning. Because there is no bureaucracy, it also ensures consistency, responsiveness, and personalized services.
Our Services
Who We Are
Sue Haun has been a consultant, facilitator and researcher since 1989, providing services to a variety of organizations – non-profit, for-profit, private, community and governmental – in a variety of settings: manufacturing, county government, city government, law enforcement, education and professional services. Sue’s expertise includes facilitating outcomes-based strategic planning and group decision-making, conducting needs assessments, and program evaluation.
She led advocacy campaigns and designed and implemented activities to educate the public about the microenterprise movement in California; founded and ran an organization to assist nascent entrepreneurs; and helped build the capacity of organizations dedicated to microenterprise development.
She is the author of “Field Building: Your Blueprint for Creating an Effective and Powerful Social Movement.”
Adrian’s expertise in web technologies includes HTML/xHTML/CSS 2, PHP, FLASH, FLEX; opensource E-Commerce platforms (oscommerce, zen cart and magento); and opensource Content Management Systems (Joomla, Drupal, opencms, and expressweb). In addition to being Brainbench Certified in e-commerce and internet marketing strategies, Adrian is proficient in a variety of graphic design software including GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Corel Draw & Paint. As a Linus/Unix-based operating system’s lover, Adrian is also a system’s administrator from time to time.
Some of the Wonderful Organizations We Have Worked With
What’s Unique About Us?
Our clients value the quality, care and respectful way we engage with them and their organization to make things happen.
What Client’s Say
For the first time in a long time we have strategic goals and objectives! Sue was able to guide our sometimes contentious group toward an end goal, keeping everyone on task and focused on the objective.
Your workshop [on Fundraising in Challenging Times] was one of the most productive workshops I’ve attended in a lifetime of attending workshops and seminars. I got great ideas. And, I met new, local people who share similar goals and problems. Thank you!
You kept us focused and on track. We now have clear direction, performance measures, an action plan, and implementation procedures.
It has been so refreshing to be able to provide feedback without it becoming a debate or having the feedback ignored. The organization of the session, as well as your facilitation, were excellent.
The strategic plan we developed with you was so effective, we have used it to guide our work for the last 2 years.
Your expertise in planning and facilitation provided the edge that made our Leadership Mendocino retreat successful – and lots of fun!
You quickly digested the issues, analyzed what was most important, and worked with me to develop the most effective format to meet the workshop goals . . . the meeting went well and I received good feedback from the participants.
Your direction and guidance acted as a catalyst, focusing the diverse range of knowledge and experiences of the MLFPP members into a cohesive, sustainable Fall Prevention Strategic Plan that reflects the issues and needs of our community.
You helped us organize the thoughts and concerns of a diverse group of neighbors into a cohesive and consensual action plan. We are grateful for your assistance.