ARS Advisory Services

Since its inception, ARS has deployed a network of consultants as strategic advisors to regional organizations and regional initiatives around the country.  Consistent with ARS?s practical, problem-solving focus, these advisory and consulting projects have been enormously important to regional leaders striving for measurable results.  ARS has worked intensively on consulting projects with 16 regions since 2003, providing a customized consulting and training to an estimated 300 - 500 leaders in regions around the country. From Fresno?s Regional Jobs Initiative to the $30 million Fund for Northeast Ohio?s Future, these services have been credited by regions with helping launch ?breakthrough? regional initiatives and achieve tangible results.

Focusing on Implementation from the Beginning

A key component of ARS? approach is focusing on implementation from the beginning.  In the past too many regional efforts have spent all their energy and resources developing an agenda without having a way to implement it.  ARS helps regions from the beginning of efforts to focus on how to turn ideas into reality.  

ARS Advisors bring a strong generalist and pragmatic orientation to their work.  They are not political consultants, although they understand and work comfortably in a political context, and know when to lead regional leaders to more explicitly political advice.  They are not communications consultants, but understand the role for communications and public engagement.  They are not strategic planners in the classic corporate sense, but are fluent in the language and practice of organizational strategy and design. 

How We Work with Regional Leaders

ARS Advisors will work in depth with regional leaders on initiatives and civic campaigns in the following areas and stages:

• Who: mobilization (thinking through and executing an organizing and leadership strategy, insuring from the beginning that the right people, right strategies and public support come together to achieve tangible results)

• What: initiating civic initiatives or campaigns (through visioning, scenario-building, benchmarking, leadership exchanges to other regions, capitalizing on high impact reports on regional issues, and the like)

• How: developing and launching the campaign roadmap for results (working to identify powerful priorities and an actionable to-do list, and the action teams to make it happen.

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• Other Ways We Help

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