Praxis' strategy and governance services help our clients:
map out practical solutions to their biggest problems
make good decisions so that they know what to do next to achieve big goals
grow their impact in their communities and with their customers and employees
Create strategy and governance systems that reflect your values and amplify your organization’s impact
Praxis helps impact-driven organizations and boards clarify and achieve their goals. Hundreds of clients across private and public sectors trust us to help them cultivate good governance, clear vision, and strategic action aligned with their values, needs, and context.
We offer start-to-finish corporate and strategic planning services along with governance assessment, training, and tools. Our team is smart and well-rounded, with an unrivalled diversity of experience. We bring creative insights, big-picture thinking, and critical thought to our clients’ toughest problems, producing strategies that work.
Strategic Planning
Praxis will help you create a clear and effective strategy that works for you and your organization.
We are strategic planning experts with 25 years of experience who have developed more than 200 corporate strategies for public and private sectors. Using the Balanced Scorecard method, we work you to understand your issues, perceptions, ideas, and concerns and help you define your desired outcome and how it impacts your clients, customers, or employees. Qualitative data gleaned from interviews, focus groups, and surveys helps to establish your vision, mission, values, and to determine the critical success factors that are needed to achieve your outcomes. At facilitated board sessions, set strategic priorities that align with your vision and mission and that cascade your strategy to your operations. Our custom strategy maps provide a one-page display of your corporate strategy that is simple and clear.
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Operational Planning and Implementation
Praxis is well versed in designing implementation and execution planning tools, guides and materials that are practical and immediately applicable.
Praxis can help you with operational planning that aligns with your strategic plan and ensures effective implementation. Our approach is simple and collaborative. We use easy-to-use tools that connect your activities to your strategic goals. We also help you identify and address any gaps or overlaps in your work. With Praxis, you can be confident that your staff are working towards the same direction and achieving the desired outcomes. Our operational planning service is an optional follow-up to our strategic planning work and is key to effective knowledge transfer to your leadership and staff.
Board Governance Reviews and Training
Enhance your board's performance and governance with our comprehensive Board Governance reviews, training, and evaluation services.
Starting with a meticulous governance audit, we identify gaps and opportunities in your current framework, ensuring that every policy and procedure aligns with best practices. Our one or two-day governance training sessions are delivered by seasoned professionals, covering essential topics from strategic planning and CEO and management relationships to risk management, equipping your board with the skills needed for exemplary governance.
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Board Evaluation Survey
Ensure your board operates at the highest level of excellence and accountability.
Praxis' cost-effective Board Evaluation Survey is a comprehensive and confidential online questionnaire that covers all aspects of effective governance, from board and committee roles and responsibilities, to board dynamics and decision-making processes. Our survey tool serves as much to educate directors on effective governance as it does to evaluate board performance. Once completed by your board, Praxis analyzes the data and prepares a detailed report, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. We work with you to customize this tool to your specific needs and goals.
Elevate your organization’s program potential and success with a comprehensive review, designed to measure performance and effectiveness with precision.
Our tailored evaluation framework and program logic model provides a clear path from program inputs to desired outcomes, while our measurement strategy offers continuous insight into your program's performance. With Praxis, you can confidently validate your program's direction, gather critical data, and utilize our support tools to stay on course with your objectives.
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Specialty Advisory Services
Specialty advisory and fractional c-suite services enable our clients to make intelligent investments in their organizations and communities.
Praxis’ specialty advisory services provide comprehensive decision-making support for businesses, organizations, municipalities, and educational institutions. Our team can provide HR management expertise, leadership and team building facilitation, strategic and operational planning and governance advisory, real estate expertise, office space and education sector assessments, start-up sector guidance as well as market analysis and proposal and grant-writing support. Our fractional c-suite services give you access to the expertise of our CEO, COO, and HR Senior Advisor without having to hire full-time employees.
From the time the proposal was presented to conduct our Provincial Infrastructure Feasibility Study, Praxis was knowledgeable, compassionate and professional. Their unwavering desire to truly help the Urban Indigenous People succeed came across throughout many community meetings and during the presentation of final studies that really told our story. They captured the essence of the work we needed to show and did so with true openness, charisma and class. The Praxis team that worked with us will forever be part of our Friendship Centre Family moving forward.
