EmbedIS
Embed implementation science into your organizational strategy
Set your team up for real-world impact with strategic planning that goes beyond big ideas—built on the principles of implementation science to ensure clarity, feasibility, action, and sustainability.
Reach out to explore how we can support your strategic directions 🌟
Reimagine organizational strategy with implementation at the center
For organizations working in complex systems, clarity of purpose and alignment around how the organization is involved in and contributes to effective implementation are essential.
Challenges like…
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Competing or evolving priorities
Ambiguity around roles and responsibilities
Silos between departments or programs
Rapid policy or funding changes
Lack of shared understanding about your identity and direction
…can stall progress and lead to misaligned or fragmented implementation efforts.
Introducing: EmbedIS
EmbedIS is a unique service that helps you align your implementation efforts with your purpose and influence within the system—inviting you to explore key questions, such as:
All with the goal of strengthening your organization’s identity, focus, and impact.
This isn’t traditional strategic planning. In fact, EmbedIS can supplement your organization’s strategic planning efforts by helping you carve out your implementation role and embed implementation science into the fabric of your organization, thereby supporting your organizational goals and overarching strategy.
Who are we?
What do we do?
How do we support implementation?
How do we maximize our impact?
In this context, how do we claim our power and define our role in the system?
Shaping strategy from the inside out
Our expert facilitators guide groups through highly tailored and reflective planning sessions that can help you:
Articulate your organizational identity as it relates to implementation
Align your activities with implementation science principles and approaches
Clarify goals, roles, and responsibilities so everyone understands how they contribute to change
Position your organization with greater confidence and influence within your system
Our process combines strategic facilitation, implementation science expertise, and collaborative inquiry.
The result is a strategy that’s both meaningful and actionable, anchored in who you are and how you can most effectively support change.
Support for organizations, funders, and leaders
While every group’s journey through strategic planning is unique, here are some examples of the kinds of progress we support:
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For Organizations:
We help your organization make sense of its role in complex systems and infuse implementation science into its identity, role, strategy, and operations. You’ll leave with a shared understanding of how to support your change efforts and a clear plan for next steps.
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We help you define your strategic position, build alignment across decision-makers, and set realistic, implementation-focused goals that make full use of your influence and capacity.
For Leadership Teams:
We support you in clarifying your role in the implementation ecosystem and in identifying where your investments can have the greatest impact—including helping grantees move from intention to action.
For Funding Agencies:
We’ve supported strategic planning for a wide range of organizations—including those in healthcare, education, substance use prevention, and government. Here are some of the impacts that we’ve had:
National organization focused on addiction recovery, treatment, and prevention (United States)
National healthcare organization (Canada)
Regional education agencies (United States)
City-level organization focused on reducing child poverty (United States)
National cancer care organization (Canada)
Helping organizations find their focus
Facilitated a strategic realignment process to clarify their system role, shifting from implementers to implementation supports and driving more coordinated, system-level impact.
Partnered to identify and define their implementation support role, establishing structures and functions to strengthen system-wide implementation capacity.
Supported county education leaders to envision what centralized statewide implementation support could look like, including selecting specific support strategies aligned with people's needs across the education system.
Facilitated planning process that restructured team structures and organizational roles, resulting in the creation of formalized implementation teams and embedded implementation supports.
Supported the core leadership team and partners to develop strategic directions for implementing cancer survivorship care pathways across Canada, enhancing coordination and alignment at the national level.
Many groups came in uncertain about their role in relation to implementation and how best to allocate resources—and left with greater clarity on what’s most important for them to do next
The value we bring to your planning process
Implementation Science Expertise
Having worked on 200+ initiatives globally, we understand the realities of leading change—making us a trusted partner for organizations looking to strengthen their strategy and impact.
System-Level Focus
We help you define your role and power within the system—embedding equity and context into every step of the planning process.
Supportive Settings
We create spaces for honest conversations and deep listening—facilitating meaningful dialogue that help teams surface what matters most.
Limited collaborations available
We understand the complexity of leading change across systems—and we’re here to help your organization find clarity, alignment, and focus in its strategic direction.
Because our EmbedIS approach is hands-on and highly customized, we take on only a select number of strategic planning engagements each year.
Availability
Currently accepting 1–2 more engagements for this year.
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Reach out now as you prepare for future strategic planning
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