Creative Planning is a nationally recognized consultant firm with a specialty in strategic planning and positioning for organizations and communities. The firm was founded in 1990 to help non-profit, government, foundation and corporate clients understand and manage change to their advantage.
The firm began in the private sector, assisting companies with creative and product development, qualitative research, branding and customer relations. In the late 90s Creative Planning expanded to encompass a special focus on cultural planning and development. We now employ a diversity of skills and perspectives in our collaborative approach to defining projects with our clients, including organizational and community planning, program design and assessment, grantmaking, qualitative market research, product development and branding, organizational change management, events production and group process design and facilitation.
Creative Planning works regularly with other leading practitioners and consultants from around the country, custom designing teams to bring specific expertise to bear in planning, assessment, program design and technical assistance projects for organizations and communities. For large scale projects, Bill teams with the Metropolitan Group, a full-service social change agency with offices in Portland, Oregon, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., and more than 17 years of experience in planning, innovative public involvement, intercultural outreach, strategic communication and branding, social marketing and resource development.
Bill and MG have worked on several projects over the last 10 years, most recently, a strategic plan for the Illinois Arts Council, strategic and cultural planning for the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County and a major, comprehensive community cultural plan for the City of Austin.