Strategic Plan

Pointing the Way for our Next Five Years...and Beyond!

In early 2019, a Strategic Planning Committee was formed to chart a path forward for the next five years of this organization, which led to development of our first (2019-2024) Strategic Plan. The members of this committee worked throughout 2019 to develop a Mission Statement, Vision Statement, and Operational Principles for our organization and then formulate measurable Goals and Objectives that reflect these statements and where we want NA4SA to be as an organization by the end of 2020, 2022 and 2024.

Unique to our Strategic Plan is the use of five Operational Principles as the organizing basis for the Goals and Objectives. Inspired by a business card used by the Superintendent of Schools in Wayzata, Minnesota and discovered by Harry Bettencourt, we wanted these statements to be powerful but concise enough to fit on our own business card.

In 2024, a Strategic Plan Steering Committee (SPSC) led and reviewed the efforts of five different Subcommittees - one for each of the five Operational Principles discovered by Harry Bettencourt and reaffirmed early in the development process. The end result of the work for the SPSC and Subcommittees is our second Strategic Plan, developed to chart our path forward for 2025-2029. The revised Mission Statement, Vision Statement, and Operational Principles for the next Strategic Plan are presented below, along with links to the new Strategic Plan document that was approved by the NA4SA Board of Directors on September 22, 2024.