In 2006 we helped the Department of Recreation and Leisure Services at East Carolina University with their strategic planning, designing and conducting a series of workshops involving their entire faculty. Our work with external stakeholders contributed to the department's understanding of its critical issues and the consolidation of more than 30 "focus areas" into a manageable four. A graphic summary is shown here.

During the spring of 2007 we worked with the Undergraduate Division in the College of Nursing to begin the development of their strategic plan. Working with a group of ten through three workshops we developed recommendations for purpose, mission and philosophy. An image developed in one of those workshops is shown here.

A Multigenerational Center had been under discussion for some time, and in the Spring of 2006 the university was presented with a potential opportunity that would bring the idea to life. Working as a collective with large scale wall graphics, the committee completed its work on time and in only three meetings. One of the graphics created during discussion can be seen below, and the report can be read here.

Child Care for faculty, staff and students had been under discussion on campus for years, and in 2006 the Provost appointed a group to develop alternatives for meeting the need. The committee avoided traditional activities like wordsmithing, choosing instead to generate ideas and think them through visually at large scale. Even the financial assumptions were developed using a laptop, projector and a rigorous bottom-up approach in which all participated. The report can be read in its entirety here.

To kick-off the development of a Center for Health Disparities Research. Approximately fifty faculty researchers were assembled to explore the question and the talent that could be deployed toward. The two-hour session was captured in fourteen-foot long graphic.

The Steering Committee for the West Research Campus invited a team of professionals in forestry and wetlands management to spend a day with them developing recommendations for conservation and renewal of that property. The final presentations and subsequent discussion were captured graphically in real time.