NFP Peak Body (Business) - Board Strategic Planning Workshop - Northam, WA

Client: Wheatbelt Business Network (WBN)

Year: 2025

Project Overview

The WBN, the peak body representing business across the Wheatbelt region, engaged Wander to facilitate a Board strategy workshop as part of the organisation’s broader strategic planning process.

Operating within a rapidly evolving regional landscape, WBN was seeking to refresh its strategic direction and ensure future planning reflected both the changing needs of the region and the organisation’s growing role within it.

Strategic Facilitation

Wander facilitated a focused two-hour Board strategy session designed not only to support planning outcomes, but to challenge assumptions and expand thinking around WBN’s broader role within the regional economy.

Through strategic facilitation and deliberately challenging questioning, Wander encouraged the Board to move beyond traditional definitions of business support and explore WBN’s wider influence across:

• economic diversification

• advocacy

• regional leadership; and

• stronger community and industry connections.

  
  

Rather than validating existing thinking, the workshop created space for reflection, strategic reframing and more aspirational discussion around the organisation’s future direction and impact.

The Outcome

The session helped create stronger alignment around WBN’s purpose and strategic direction, while generating fresh perspectives and ideas that informed development of the organisation’s broader Strategic Plan.

Importantly, the process demonstrated the value of external strategic facilitation in helping Boards:

• challenge assumptions;

• think beyond operational constraints; and

• reconnect with the bigger-picture influence of their work.

  
  

This project highlights Wander’s strength in Board facilitation, strategic planning and governance support for regional and member-based organisations navigating change, growth and evolving leadership responsibilities.