Welcome

You are looking to improve the performance of employees.

Case in Point #1: A strategic plan to disrupt your industry needs to be crafted, but you don’t know how to work with executives and board members to combine their best thinking. You sense they could be more productive in the next strategic planning retreat but they could need the help of a facilitator with a trusted approach and fresh ideas.

Case in Point #2: Your employees are motivated but unproductive. Modern day afflictions such as email, task management and meetings are poor, but you don’t know how to intervene. They need coaching and training, but where can effective options be found?

Welcome to Framework Consulting. While the causes of low productivity might be numerous, we specialize in crafting custom solutions. Our work is focused on two areas –  Strategy and Productivity.

  • Strategy

    Your company needs a new way to craft strategic plans. You understand that winning organizations have a clear picture of the future and the path to follow. They disrupt entire industries with their innovative thinking, but you aren't sure what they do to make these big leaps forward.

    Want some help? You may need anything from information to the help of a facilitator, but click here to look at your options.

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  • Task Management

    Are your employees working hard, but you can see where they could be more personally effective? Do email and meetings overwhelm them, forcing you to compensate for their inconsistency?

    If you suspect that their habits of task management are lacking, you may want to get them assistance. We offer many levels of help, for individuals, groups and corporations, but we excel in helping individuals improve their performance.

    To discover how your company could do more with less, explore our work in this area.

The Long-Term Strategy Conference

September 15–17, 2026 · Virtual

Most executives have already run the experiment. Feed your company’s situation into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and ask for a long-term strategy. You’ll get a confident, presentation-ready answer in seconds. Ask a second model the same question and you’ll get the same conclusions in different words: differentiate, lead with innovation, augment the workforce with AI. It reads well. It’s also generic — averaged from everything on the internet, not built from your business.

We call this trendslop. It’s the default output of asking a large language model to do strategy directly, and it’s what most companies get when they bring AI into strategic planning without changing anything else first.

This conference starts from a different premise: the problem isn’t the AI, and it isn’t your prompting. It’s that most strategy processes were never mapped clearly enough for AI to be pointed at the right sub-task. Fix that, and AI becomes genuinely useful. Skip it, and AI just produces faster, more confident trendslop.

What’s different about this conference

We’re not running a lineup of talks and panels. The format is closer to an interactive exhibition than a webinar series — you move through the three days sampling tools, frameworks, and exercises rather than sitting through back-to-back presentations.

Three things anchor the content:

  • The EndPoint Method — a six-stage strategic planning framework (Snapshot, Target Year, Scenarios, Commitment, Backcast, Execution) developed and refined over two decades of client engagements. Each stage carries a different kind of thinking and a different vulnerability to AI-generated trendslop.
  • AI personas — instead of asking a general-purpose model “what should our strategy be,” you’ll work with narrower, purpose-built personas, each scoped to one sub-task in the planning process: option generation, stress-testing, historical pattern-matching, and others. You’ll get access to example personas and the prompt logic behind them, so you can adapt them to your own organization.
  • StratNav, a process-driven strategy platform, will be represented at the conference with a session translating its task structure into the persona approach above.

Who this is for

If you’re a board member, executive, or consultant heading into a strategy retreat and wondering whether to bring AI into the room — or already using it quietly and unsure whether to trust what it gives you — this is built for you.

Speakers

We’re filtering deliberately for people who have applied AI-driven process changes with real clients, not just written about the idea. That combination is harder to find than you’d expect.

Passes

A free Visitor Pass gets you access to drop into sessions across the three days. A Full Ticket gives you the complete experience, including hands-on persona exercises.

Register: strategyconf.fwconsulting.com

Click here to visit the conference website – https://strategyconf.fwconsulting.com