Make strategic progress in your independent school.

Upcoming Events

Workshop
December 2025

Financial Series: Staffing and Compensation

This virtual series will support schools in your work to strengthen your most valuable asset: people.
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Workshop
January 2026

Vision and Strategy: Your New-Year Refresh

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
February 2026

AIM to Action: Advancing your Community Goals

This virtual workshop series helps schools further their action planning after AIM and strategically innovate around building inclusive communities.
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Workshop
April 2026

Bridging the Governance Gap

This virtual workshop series helps schools and their boards use reflective assessment data to generate ideas for board improvement and growth.
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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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