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Upcoming Events

Workshop
December 2023

Financial Series: Staffing & Compensation - Fall Session

This virtual workshop, hosted in three-hour sessions across three days, will support schools in their work to vitalize their most valuable asset: people.
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Workshop
January 2024

Vision and Strategy - Winter Session

This virtual workshop, hosted in three-hour sessions across three days, will support schools in clarifying their vision and setting action priorities. 
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Innovation Sprint
January 2024

Demand-Side Innovation for Enhancing Enrollment - Winter Session

In this three-hour sprint on January 30, schools will attain a common language around why parents choose their school via NAIS’s Parent Jobs-to-Be-Done research and practice innovation frameworks to turn insights into action.
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Workshop
February 2024

Financial Series: Advancement & Fundraising - Spring Session

This virtual workshop, hosted in three-hour sessions across three days, will support schools in their work to rethink one of the biggest sources of non-tuition income.
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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

The Strategy Lab Experience

Get a sneak peek at the Strategy Lab experience from NAIS staff and past Strategy Lab participants.

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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