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An update on Lovett’s Strategic Plan:
BUILDING FOR
TOMORROW
| by Katie Post, Director of Major Gifts
Last fall, when Lovett launched the Strategic
following activities: forming a Strategic Design
Design Process, we asked ourselves: How does
Team, conducting a community-wide survey,
Lovett continue to cultivate character, emotional
forming four Learning Teams to study specific
intelligence, and intellectual curiosity which is at
strategic questions, and developing and approving
the heart of the educational vision of our founder
Core Values for the school.
Eva Lovett? Little did we know that a global pandemic, economic crisis, and monumental
The Strategic Design Team launched four
social movement awaited us in 2020. However,
“learning teams” to seek information and gather
the question and the pending answers feel more
quantitative and qualitative data in response
relevant and urgent as we launch into the most
to these questions. They conducted interviews
unusual start of a school year in Lovett’s 94-year
and market research, and held focus groups with
history.
internal and external stakeholders, and discussed and analyzed all that they learned. Their hard
The purpose of Lovett’s Strategic Design Process is
work and efforts were reflected in comprehensive
to reflect deeply on Lovett’s mission and discuss
reports back to the Strategic Design Team, and
openly as a community where we are now and
their insights will be at the foundation for the
where we go from here. Building on Lovett’s
final strategy.
enduring values, this process will clearly define our core beliefs and highest goals for our students,
Our aim is to finish a draft of the strategy, so
and the school’s future strategic initiatives will
that we can engage in dialogues with the Lovett
unfold from there. This work now comes with a
community in early 2021 and solicit feedback. The
heightened importance that we never could have
strategic design process will conclude at the end
anticipated 12 months ago.
of this school year in June 2021, when our Board formally adopts the plan. Thus, as we near our
To create a dynamic, succinct and compelling
centennial celebration, Lovett will have a clear and
strategy that builds on our strengths and creates
concise strategy that articulates our mission, core
conditions for success at Lovett for generations
institutional values, and provides a road map for
to come, we have walked hand in hand with all
the years to come.
Lovett stakeholders over the last year through the
