MISSION

In the Summer of 2008, WIP hired Cheri baker from Emergence Consulting to work with us in creating a planning process that would involve everyone involved at WIP - from volunteers to performers to patrons - in our new strategic plan. The process has encompassed hundreds of interviews and follow-up interviews.

This information was compiled and brought together in a one-day summit in August 2008; over eighty people were in attendance. During the course of this day-long event we shared stories from the interviews, created new performances based on questions posed to ad-hoc teams (improv has been part of our planning process), and then created several Bold New Directions for the company.

Since the summit, individual commitees have been meeting on these directions. The commitees have created plans for the Mission Vision Values (MVV) Commitee of our Board to review and evaluate, from which a cohesive strategic plan will be developed.

As of this writing, we are in the final stages of the project. The MVV Committee is currently disseminating the information from the various individual bold new direction review committees and creating a draft plan that the Board wil discuss and eventually approve. We expect to have a formal strategic plan in place by the end of July 2009. This planning process has resulted in a new Vision Statement and new Core Values for WIP.