Make strategic progress in your independent school.

Upcoming Events

Workshop
September 2025

Vision and Strategy: Launching the Year with Purpose

This virtual workshop series helps schools take a data-driven approach to plan for the future, uncover roadblocks, and design strategic priorities to distinguish your school’s unique value in an ever-changing market.
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Workshop
October 2025

Financial Series: Tuition and Auxiliary Revenue Streams

This virtual workshop series will support schools in your work to generate ideas for price and revenue opportunities.
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Workshop
October 2025

AI Ethics & Values

This virtual workshop helps school leaders develop clear, values-driven AI guidelines for students and employees.
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Workshop
November 2025

Financial Series: Discounting and Financial Aid

This virtual workshop series will support schools in your work to reach your affordability and access goals.
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How We Work Together

Our Innovation Team supports schools in solving pressing challenges and seizing the right opportunities in order to live their missions and secure sustainable futures. Our team provides resources, experiences, and networks that enhance, design, connect, build, and collaborate.

Enhance

Enhance innovation cultures

Design

Develop skills for project-level innovation designs

Connect

Connect innovation designs to current realities and strategic visions

Build

Build capacity for effective implementation of innovation designs

Collaborate

Expand opportunities for cross-school collaboration

A Community of Innovators

Want to attend a Strategy Lab workshop or test some of our resources? Click below to get involved or email strategylab@nais.org for more information.
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