Strategic Planning: I will help you capture your vision. I make my clients more productive by integrating their needs, the possibilities of technology and the requirement for success:
- Improve operational efficiency
- Guide strategic direction with evidence based decision making process
- Organize brand intent, design quality and customer values
- Assess the internal and external environments in which your organization/community competes.
Case Study: Imagine Waco
Chris McGowan is the primary architect of the Imagine Waco Plan. Chris designed the program, organized the team, recruited community support and launched the initiative that became the most inclusive community planning process in recent local history.
Nearly five years ago Waco, took the first step to develop this ambitious planning process to redevelop Waco’s heart with housing, shops, work places, attractions, visitor amenities, schools, civic facilities, parks and greenbelts, grand boulevards and neighborhood streets. This process kicked off with unprecedented public participation in the summer of 2009.
The process was guided by a nationally recognized team of consultants, who utilized citizen input to provide a transformative vision to shape the future of Waco.
Mobilizing volunteers to participate in the planning process, Chris established an all-volunteer entity through the Greater Waco Chamber called 1000 Friends of Waco. This became public policy advocacy in action at the grass roots level.
Today, Imagine Waco is being realized and is recognized as the launching point for momentum that is transforming Waco into one of the most interesting urban real estate markets in Texas