Business Planning, Strategy, and Organizational Effectiveness

Live2Create Leadership Academy is seeking support to translate a clear mission and vision into a cohesive, executable operating model that supports a successful school launch and early growth.

With a skilled Taproot volunteer, we aim to:

Clarify 12–24 month strategic priorities for launch and early operations
Align our program model, governance, staffing, and funding into a unified operating framework
Define roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority to reduce founder dependency
Create a phased execution roadmap that identifies what must be done now versus later
Identify key capacity gaps, risks, and assumptions before enrollment and fundraising accelerate

The volunteer would support leadership through structured conversations, analysis, and facilitation, resulting in a practical roadmap and operating framework that our team can immediately implement.

This project is not about ideation—it is about alignment, clarity, and execution readiness.

This project directly supports our mission to equip young people with purpose, leadership skills, and real-world readiness through an innovative microschool model.

By strengthening our strategic foundation and operating model, this project will:

Ensure a sustainable and well-aligned school launch, rather than a reactive one
Enable leadership to focus on student impact instead of operational strain
Support responsible growth that protects program quality and community trust
Position the Academy to serve students who are often underserved by traditional education models

For volunteers, this project represents an opportunity to help build the infrastructure behind student transformation—creating systems that allow educators and mentors to focus on developing confident, capable young leaders.

The impact of this work will be felt not only at launch, but in every student, family, and community partner we serve in the years ahead.

We are well-positioned to be a strong pro bono partner.

To prepare for this engagement, we have:

Established an active board of directors with regular meetings
Clarified our mission, vision, values, and target population
Developed a defined school model, phased growth plan, and launch timeline
Gathered foundational materials (program descriptions, early budgets, governance documents, planning drafts)

For project success, we will:

Designate a primary project lead with decision-making authority
Commit to consistent weekly or bi-weekly meetings
Provide timely access to documents, data, and stakeholders
Treat this engagement as a top organizational priority
Implement recommendations following project completion

We are seeking a true partnership and are committed to using this project to drive real organizational change—not shelfware.