Institutions that are attempting to develop comprehensive plans which are aligned at all levels of the organization will benefit from our Strategic Planning Institute. Many institutions of higher learning claim to want to transform how they deliver education and services so that they are more learning and learner centered. To achieve this goal they must deconstruct existing bureaucracies to a significant degree. The task becomes overwhelming when this is only done from the top of an organization. It is common for colleges and universities to have strategic plans that are quite broad in scope, but which are too general to be meaningfully applied to programs and work units. We help these units within an organization to carefully think through and align their work with that of the broader institution, and to do so in a way that has real meaning, local ownership, and which is aligned with the broader institutional strategic plan.