I bring your strategic & business planning to life
Having served dozens of natural & organic product brands as well as environmental and educational nonprofits, my team will help your natural & organic brand thrive.
Let us take the reins and help you ideate, design, and implement a strong, values-centric business or strategic plan, and tackle problems with viable solutions along the way.
I help organic CPGs such as clean beauty, herbal, cosmetic, chocolate, coffee & tea, or organic foods & beverage brands...
- build effective purpose and mission into your plan
- develop alignment between your leaders and team
- Integrate ESG and sustainability into your long-range planning
- assess and evaluate your current status and guide leaders toward next steps
- identify problems and generate future-thinking, aligned solutions
- facilitate your brand's live business planning process, including meetings, interviews, assessments, focus groups, stakeholder engagement, plan development, product launch, document publication, and implementation
- assess your B Corps readiness and move through next steps toward certification
For Women-Led & Mission-Driven Companies
Do any of these issues sound familiar?
- Your leaders or partners can't agree on a direction, a mission, or core values
- Your leadership team doesn't refer to the plan and it is gathering dust
- Your staff are unclear on strategic directives and company vision
- Your plan is outdated and needs refreshing and re-launching
- Your plan got "waylaid" by a grant or funding that sidelined your true mission
- Your purpose has changed and your brand is going in a new direction
- There are so many positive outcomes you'd like to tackle! You can't decide which should take priority.
Strategy Services Include:
Build Purpose and Mission Directly into Your Strategic or Business Plan
Through rewarding and trusting conversations, I help create strong, values-based cross-functional alignment with all board members, staff, and departments. Topics can include sustainability, environmental progress and social awareness and activism.
Manage Every Phase of the Strategic Planning Process
I can jump in at any point of your process, no matter the history or challenges you're facing:
- Assess and evaluate your current Strategic Plan
- Liaise with key stakeholders including board chair, board officers, board members, C-Suite team, and key staff
- Clarify the nuances of your plan concepts, wording and language, timelines, goals, partnerships, history, core values, mission and purpose, company culture, revenue streams and financial structure, and more.
- Evaluate your project and program development.
- Work with your staff to determine and implement best practices and next steps for aligning programs with strategic vision.
- Change management assessment as it relates to new values or purpose
- Create and manage a Community of Practice
- Startup planning and guidance for new companies, especially aspiring, new and certified B-Corps
About Strategist Holly Bellebuono
Award-winning entrepreneur and nonprofit executive Holly Bellebuono coaches organic brands through every stage of business. As a strategist and planner, Holly is experienced in strategic plan design and development, implementation, team building, conflict resolution, and financial stewardship. Read more here.
