Strategy

Strategy development and implementation form the backbone of the Cincinnatus mission. We know how to identify and ask the right questions, to question basic assumptions, and to move from planning to action. Our extensive experience with nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies enables us to quickly get to the core of your organization’s mission, culture, and context.

Performing roles from leader to decision support, we develop a process specific to your needs, conduct quality research, and help you craft a strategy that drives your organization forward. Throughout the process, we carefully build commitment and passion around a shared vision — helping to ensure the plans are broadly supported and produce enduring results. We help organizations focus on the things that matter most.

Leadership

Cincinnatus brings seasoned executive experience to support leaders and organizations striving for success in an environment of rapid, often involuntary, change. As needed, we will work with you to renew and redirect senior staff and board energy, replace key leaders, and fill in during transition. We know how to assess leadership needs and identify strategic priorities for boards of directors, executives, and senior leaders so that your organization has the right leadership now and in the future.

As experienced leaders, we know how to solve big-picture problems and make tough calls. We have the credibility and the skills to unite your team, from the board of directors to employees, and position your organization to move confidently forward with renewed strategic vision and leadership.

Solutions

Cincinnatus provides the experienced hand to advise and assist you in demanding circumstances. In addition to the analysis, evaluation, and recommendations that you expect from any consulting firm, Cincinnatus delivers what’s next: the customized support necessary to successfully implement your new or refined strategies.

At Cincinnatus, we are comfortable with situations that are unpredictable, formative, confusing — even chaotic. We focus on your organization and outcomes rather than on preconceived models. Our work is cost effective and focused on our client’s most critical needs.

The Cincinnatus Vision

To be the leading Minnesota-based multi-sector, strategy-focused management consulting firm and to help our clients achieve Clarity, Consensus, and Confidence. Backed by our full range of organization turnaround, nonprofit and for-profit business and strategic planning and implementation services, our consultants are committed to your success.

Our Strategic Consulting Process

As a Minneapolis-based nonprofit and for-profit business consulting firm, Cincinnatus helps clients achieve measurable success through strategic consulting solutions from planning through implementation.

Our Point of Difference

Cincinnatus is more strategically focused, leadership oriented and client-centered than larger management consulting and accounting firms while providing more breadth of expertise than independent consultants.

Client Benefits

Whether you require strategic and operational planning, assessments, implementation, board governance, interim management, or executive search, our management consultants’ breadth and depth of experience and demonstrated expertise can help your organization define and realize its mission, vision, and values.

The End Result

Cincinnatus means: Experienced multi-sector consultants creating customized and effective solutions for organizational strategies.

Cincinnatus is: The Minneapolis-based management consulting firm that clients choose to build Clarity, Consensus, and Confidence within their own organizations.