Empowering leaders,
engaging communities.
We’re SSW — a Portland-based consulting firm helping local government leaders build thriving organizations and communities through strategic planning, graphic facilitation, community engagement, and more.
HOW WE WORK
Creative. Collaborative. Energizing.
Let’s make engagement meaningful and fun. Using powerful visuals and your team’s shared vision, we help you bring people together, create powerful goals, and make a greater impact across your organization and community.
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Whether you have a team-building retreat, community engagement project, or a goal-setting session in mind, we’ll take the lead with visual facilitation to help you bring people together and build a plan that gets the work done.
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Drawing on your shared mission, vision, and values, we’ll define your goals and create a practical plan to achieve them. By engaging key staff and community members throughout the process, we’ll ensure the plan is both actionable and reflective of your community’s needs.
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Through meaningful connections and authentic dialogue, we’ll empower you to build trust and strong relationships within your organization and community. Our engagement experts help you think outside the box, gathering face-to-face feedback in addition to survey data to ensure a deep understanding of your community’s needs and aspirations.
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Build a cohesive team to advance your goals. Whether it's during a retreat or a goal-setting workshop, we leverage tools like Core Strengths and Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI 2.0) to improve communication, collaboration, and understanding.
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We’re here to help you build stronger community relationships through compelling storytelling and effective communication. From crafting engaging email newsletters and social media posts to developing comprehensive communication strategies, our team is dedicated to helping you connect with your people.
WHO WE ARE
Your partners in community.
We're seasoned consultants, strategists, and graphic facilitators, dedicated to empowering local government leaders for more than two decades.
“Working with the SSW team was a great experience. By the end of our retreat, I felt we had consensus on our goals and a direction for how to measure the goals’ effectiveness. All team members were brought into the conversation and were highly engaged!”
— City of Tigard Councilor, Maureen Wolf
