Big Things in Smaller Places: Translating Big City Experience Into Right-Sized Execution
March 24 | 11am PT / 2pm ET
What changes when leadership experience meets a different level of scale? What happens when big-city systems thinking encounters smaller teams, and tighter capacity?
This session explores one central question:
How do you right-size execution to match your organization — without overbuilding, under-delivering, or losing momentum?
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What You’ll Learn
Across scale, the challenges are familiar:
- Staff capacity constraints
- Siloed departments
- Reporting fatigue
- Plans that stall after adoption
This session surfaces practical lessons from leaders who have adapted strategy to fit their environments.
You’ll gain insight into:
- How to right-size execution to staff capacity
- How to choose “just enough structure”
- How storytelling strengthens accountability
- What larger governments can learn from smaller governments
- How to build a culture of strategic ownership
This is a candid, educational conversation designed for city and county leaders, CAOs, strategy and performance teams, and public-sector innovators.
If you’re focused on execution — not just planning — this conversation is for you.
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Moderated by Rob Hines – Senior Customer Success Manager, Planning and Performance Coach, Envisio
Rob works directly with public-sector teams implementing strategy and performance measurement systems across North America. He’ll guide the conversation toward practical lessons leaders can take back to their organizations immediately.
Leticia Callanen – City of Aurora (CO)
After working in a very large municipality (San Antonio), Leticia joined Aurora and built strategic infrastructure from the ground up. She’ll share what larger governments don’t automatically get right — how silos persist at any size, why culture change takes time, and how tools like “strategy circles” and early-adopter cohorts unblock execution and build alignment.
Charlie Bush – City of Sedro-Woolley (WA)
Charlie has worked across dramatically different scales — from large cities like Phoenix to his current role in a smaller, high-visibility community. He’ll speak to what small governments do exceptionally well: moving quickly, telling clear stories, and simplifying execution when resources are tight.
Lina Thompson – City of Welland (ON)
With 35 years in one community, Lina brings deep institutional continuity. Recently, Welland shifted from a static strategic plan to structured execution — launching a public dashboard and engaging 300+ staff through workshops and collaborative action planning. Lina will share how internal trust, clear process, and realistic capacity planning transformed implementation.