Live cohort · Accelerator Course
Your vision is big. Your plan should match.
A live cohort where you build your own strategic plan — mission, vision and values, SWOT, structure, a three-year budget and measures of success — through weekly group calls with Yura Sapi and one-to-one feedback on your draft.
You've outgrown the seat-of-your-pants plan.
You know where you want to go. What's missing is the plan you can hand a funder, a board, or yourself on a hard day.
- The plan lives in your head and changes every week
- Funders and boards keep asking for a strategic plan you don't have
- You start a plan and it stalls at the budget
- You've read the templates but nothing feels like yours
- You make big decisions with no way to measure whether they worked
- Everyone on the team is pulling toward a slightly different vision
8 chapters · 23 lessons
A cohort, not a course you watch alone.
The whole group moves through the material together, so the plan gets built instead of postponed.
Weekly live group video calls
Meet with Yura and the rest of the cohort each week to work through the chapter, ask questions, and hear what other leaders are wrestling with.
Lessons between the calls
Each chapter comes with short video lessons and an assignment. You watch, you do the work, you bring it to the next call.
One-to-one feedback on your draft
Yura reads your draft strategic plan and tells you what to sharpen before anyone else does.
Cohort-only bonus sessions
Live workshops that aren't in the recorded library, timed to the moment in the cohort when they help most.
Every answer you save gathers in one living workbook, organized by chapter, that you can keep updating and download as a PDF at any point.
The syllabus
What you build, chapter by chapter
01
4 lessons
Your Foundations for Success
- Set Personal Program Goals & Intentions
- The Visionary Mindset
- Dream Bigger Visualization
- Transforming Limiting Beliefs
You leave with: Your intentions for the cohort and the beliefs standing in the way.
02
6 lessons
Your Mission, Vision & Values
- The Problem
- The "Solution"
- Your Story
- Why You Are Needed
- Values Alignment
- Mission, Vision & Values
You leave with: One-sentence mission and vision, your top three values, and the story behind the work.
03
1 lesson
Your SWOT Analysis
- SWOT Analysis
You leave with: Strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities, each rated for likelihood and impact.
04
3 lessons
Your Strategic Plan
- Strategic Priorities
- Theory of Change
- Strategic Plan Development
You leave with: Your priorities, the theory of change behind them, and the draft plan itself.
05
3 lessons
Your Organizational Structure
- Stakeholders Mapping
- Decolonizing Power Structures
- Draft Your Plan Presentation
You leave with: A stakeholder map, a power structure that matches your values, and a plan presentation.
06
2 lessons
Your 3-Year Budget Forecast
- Money Basics
- 3-Year Budget Forecast
You leave with: A three-year income and expense forecast you can defend.
07
1 lesson
Your Accountability & Impact
- KPI's & Measures of Success
You leave with: The measures that tell you whether the plan is working.
08
3 lessons
Your Stakeholder Feedback
- Final Plan Presentation
- Getting Stakeholders Feedback
- Closing Survey
You leave with: Your final plan, the feedback loop around it, and your next commitments.
What you leave the cohort with
- A written strategic plan in your own voice
- Mission, vision and values you can quote under pressure
- A SWOT you actually used, not one you filled in
- A three-year budget forecast
- Measures of success for the plan
- A plan your stakeholders have seen and reacted to
- A workbook holding every answer you wrote along the way
This cohort is for you if
You lead something real
An arts organization, a collective, a project, or your own practice that is ready to be structured on purpose.
You have the mission, not the plan
You can talk about the work for hours, but there's no document a funder or board can read.
You want your draft read by a person
You're not looking for another template — you want to know what to fix.
You can show up weekly
The cohort moves together, so the calls are where the plan gets built.
Tuition
Choose the rate that fits
Pick the number that fits your budget. Every tier gets the same cohort — the same calls, the same one-to-one feedback, the same workbook.
Community rate
$750
or $250 a month × 3
For artists and small collectives working with a tight budget. Choose this one and no explanation is needed.
Standard rate
$1,200
or $400 a month × 3
The true cost of the seat: eight weeks of calls, your draft read one-to-one, and the full lesson library.
Sustainer rate
$1,800
or $600 a month × 3
Covers your seat and funds a community seat for someone who couldn't otherwise join this cohort.
Pay in three
Any tier can be split into three monthly payments — $250, $400, or $600 a month. The first payment holds your seat; the last one lands before the final call.
None of the three tiers work for you?
Scholarships are available. Join the waitlist and tell us what you're building and what you can carry — we'll follow up before enrollment opens.
Real results
$408,000+ in documented grant wins
$280,000+
LiberArte Inc. & Yura Sapi
NYC Cultural Affairs, NY State Council on the Arts, Howard Gilman Foundation, and more.
$75,000+
Arts organization
Funding from multiple competitive funders with a clear, funder-aligned strategy.
$33,000+
Arts organization
Multiple grant wins with a stronger, more targeted approach.
$20,000
Nonprofit
General operating support after building a consistent grant writing process.
Your guide
Meet Yura Sapi
Yura Sapi is the CEO and Founder of LiberArte Inc., a Jackson Heights arts organization that has secured over $408,000 in documented grant funding. Yura has led strategic planning with artists, collectives and nonprofits, and teaches this cohort the same process used inside LiberArte.
Build the plan your vision deserves.
Join the waitlist and we'll send you the next cohort dates and how to claim your seat before enrollment opens.
Join the Strategic Planning for Visionary Leaders waitlist
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Want this applied to your own organization directly? Work with Yura through organizational strategic planning or a Breakthrough Coaching Session.