Building Mount Sequoyah's Next Strategic Plan
Mount Sequoyah is entering a new chapter. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our hospitality bookings, camp season, and arts programming, and it took real work from our staff and board to keep this place running through those years. We're grateful for that effort, and this plan builds on the stable footing it left us.
The time has come to think deliberately about where we go next, how we grow our offerings and how we build the financial and organizational foundation to support that growth for the long term.
This fall, our Board, staff, and community members are working together on a new strategic plan that will guide Mount Sequoyah through the next several years. A planning committee drawn from all three groups is leading the process, gathering input, stress-testing ideas, and bringing data to the full Board and staff for a process of reflection, deliberation, and planning.
How the process works
Between September and December, the committee is reviewing where Mount Sequoyah stands today, listening to the people who know us best or who share our Northwest Arkansas Community, and working through priorities together ahead of a final plan. The plan that comes out of this process will reflect not just the committee's own thinking, but input from staff, board members, donors, guests, artists, camp and program families, and the broader community.
We are listening
Our community members know Mount Sequoyah from their own vantage points, whether that's as a donor, a wedding or retreat guest, an artist in our Creative Spaces program, a camp or recreation family, a community partner, or simply a neighbor who has watched this place grow. Those perspectives will directly shape the priorities in this plan.
We have had over 300 community members participate in our Strategic Plan Community Survey, which we will now take to our committees, board, and staff in order to incorporate this important feedback into our vision for the future.
Thank you for being part of Mount Sequoyah's story, and for helping us plan its next chapter well.