strategy as facilitation

The strategist of tomorrow won't be the smartest person in the room. They'll be the person who knows how to shape the room. And that room will include machines.

Strategy isn't about applying frameworks in isolation. It's about reading the room, the rhythm, the reality.

Too often, strategists are trained to seek tidy answers – grids, ladders, funnels, stages. But culture doesn't move in straight lines. It swells, fractures, loops, contradicts itself.

Fieldcraft acknowledges this. It repositions the strategist

For too long, we've treated strategy like a board game: static pieces on a flat surface, governed by logic and turn-taking.

But the real world isn't orderly. It's dynamic. Interdependent. Shaped by weather, mood, emotion, timing, attention, trust.

Organizing, on the other hand, is a more specific set of practices. It is a craft that requires us to cultivate a variety of skills, such as intentional relationship building and power analysis.

“I think of organizers,” Ransby told us, “as people who really are trying to move other people, [and] create collective movement in a very conscious, deliberate and strategic way, informed by a larger social change agenda.”