During the Visioning Phase, more than 5,700 students, faculty, staff, alumni, campus partners, and community leaders shared varied perspectives, aspirations, and dreams to help shape the future of the Institute.

It is interesting that Georgia Tech’s last strategic plan was designed during a global recession, while much of this one was finalized during a pandemic. For more than 135 years, the people of Georgia Tech have dared to imagine and then create solutions for a better future no matter their current circumstances. The innovative leadership continues — for Progress and Service for all.

During the visioning phase, the project team members gathered input from faculty, staff, and students through a variety of in-person and online formats, including meetings, focus groups, webinars, and social campaign forums.

They developed and distributed communications, provided logistical support, and synthesized, organized, and prepared the data for the Steering Committee. Watch a video of the process.

The steering committee worked to extrapolate and organize the most relevant and salient themes from the data collected during the visioning phase, and then divided into four sub-committees to draft a mission statement, vision narrative, values definitions, and focus areas that the working groups could use going forward.

Each working group was comprised of internal and external stakeholders with specific knowledge, skills, and responsibilities in each of the six strategic impact focus areas areas. Working groups were tasked with delivering goals, objectives, and measures of success around a respective focus. Each group had two co-leaders responsible for guiding, focusing, and reporting on behalf of the group, as well as two facilitators to assist with agendas, deliverables, focus, and meeting expected timelines