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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,</p><p class="MsoNormal">As most of you know, we held a strategic planning Retreat for the Greater Alexandria Chapter in late August, where over fifteen people came together to craft a chapter strategy to guide us for the coming years. To those who could attend, we appreciate your input and we’re so excited about the discussions and outputs. Thank you!</p><p class="MsoNormal">I have attached two documents for all of the chapter to review. My ask is that you at least review document #1, as we will vote on this document at our meeting on October 25, asking you to approve our strategic plan.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The documents attached are:</p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">The Grater Alexandria Chapter Strategic Plan—We’ll ask you to vote on this after a short presentation on Thursday night; and,</li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">The full set of outputs from our strategic planning retreat. This second document is a FYI and provides some background of discussions we had at the retreat.</li></ol><p class="MsoListParagraph">If you have any questions about the strategic plan, document 1, please bring those questions to the meeting or contact me directly at 614-519-3026 or <a href="mailto:jwg@sgendeavors.com">jwg@sgendeavors.com</a>.</p><p class="MsoListParagraph">After we vote to approve our strategic plan, we’ll break into teams, based on our four priorities, to start digging into our next steps.</p><p class="MsoListParagraph">Read at least document 1 and come prepared to start implementing our strategy.</p><p class="MsoListParagraph">See you on Thursday,</p><p class="MsoListParagraph">Jeremy and the rest of the board</p><p class="MsoListParagraph"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#1f3763">Jeremy Grandstaff, Collaboration & Organization Consultant</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#2f5496"><a href="http://www.sgendeavors.com/"><span style="color:#0563c1">S & G Endeavors</span></a>: Using Collaboration to Help Clients Create Change and Take Action</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">614-519-3026 | <a href="mailto:jwg@sgendeavors.com"><span style="color:#0563c1">jwg@sgendeavors.com</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#2f5496">Follow us, learn about our clients, and how we can help you create change: </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#2f5496"> <a href="http://sgeconnections.tv/"><span style="color:#0563c1">SGEConnections.TV</span></a> | <a href="http://www.sgendeavors.com/blog"><span style="color:#0563c1">SGE Blog</span></a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sgendeavors"><span style="color:#0563c1">SGE Facebook</span></a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/sgendeavors"><span style="color:#0563c1">SGE Youtube</span></a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/3239443"><span style="color:#0563c1">SGE LinkedIn</span></a></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>What will 2018 hold for your company or organization? Be sure to contact us for a consult.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Let s & G help you create the change you want to see!</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>