FastTrack™: Everything you need to plan, execute, and thrive.
Built on a best-practices planning process, a framework that adapts to your organization, and an execution system that drives accountability and results.
You have big goals, but lack the engine to reach them. FastTrack™ is the answer. It’s a comprehensive system in which you define the future you want to achieve and build and execute powerful strategies to reach it.
FastTrack™ gives you professional-grade planning and implementation tools like those used by the world’s leading companies—at a price that fits your budget.
Grounded in Reality: Built-in financial analysis, strategic foresight, competitive scans, and stakeholder input to ensure your plan is built on a foundation of facts, insight, and real-world understanding.
AI Insight and Assistance: Kai, your 24/7 planning assistant, helps identify trends, generate alternatives, analyze inputs, critique drafts, and sharpen strategic thinking whenever you call on it.
Built for Action: Seamlessly link your vision to results through a strategy map, objectives, and KPIs. Our dashboard and automated accountability cycles tracking action steps and KPIs—monthly, quarterly, and annual—keep implementation focused and ensure your strategy delivers the results you planned for.
Expert Support: Professional strategy consulting and coaching support are just a tier away whenever you want an expert partner in the process.
A powerful system. A clear roadmap. Great results.
Why FastTrack™ Is Better
Most planning tools help you write a strategic plan. FastTrack™ helps you think through strategy and execute it successfully. It combines three capabilities rarely found in one system.
Disciplined Strategic Thinking Process
FastTrack™ guides leaders step-by-step from understanding today’s reality for their organization to defining vision, building strategy and action steps, and translating it into measurable results.
Adaptive Strategic Planning Framework
FastTrack™ adapts the process to your organization type, business model, competitive approach, and priorities. The resulting plan reflects your mission, environment, and operating realities.
Built-In Execution System
FastTrack™ connects strategy to action, through strategic objectives, KPIs, action steps, milestones, tracked on a dashboard, and assessed and adapted in monthly, quarterly, and annual reviews.
A Complete Strategic Planning and Execution System
Professional Planning Tools + Implementation Discipline + AI Guidance = Strategic Success
What FastTrack™ Delivers
A Guided, Step-by-Step Journey: Move with confidence through a proven planning process—from assessing your current reality to concrete action.
Professional Toolkit: Access 20+ expert-grade planning and assessment tools designed to handle every strategic challenge.
VisionLens™ Technology: Don't just set a goal—craft, test, and refine your vision to ensure it’s both ambitious and achievable.
The CLIME™ System: Leverage our proprietary implementation framework to drive sustained, measurable progress across your entire organization.
24/7 AI Guidance: Use Kai, your AI planning assistant, to sharpen your thinking and provide expert feedback whenever you need it.
Real-Time Visibility: A live implementation dashboard that connects your strategy to daily work through KPI and action-step tracking.
Built-in Accountability: Structured monthly, quarterly, and annual review cycles keep your plan active, relevant, and moving forward.
All for much less than the cost of one consultant hour per month.
Professional Strategy Without a Big Company budget: Organizations can spend $10,000 to $25,000 just to create a plan. FastTrack™ delivers the same world-class methodology for a fraction of that—$300 a year for the Self-Directed tier or $1,200 a year for consultant help in plan creation in the Fast Start tier.
Affordable Monthly Coaching: Typical monthly coaching retainers range from $1,000 to $5,000. With FastTrack™, you can access professional strategic coaching support to ensure your plan delivers results for less than $3,600 a year.
Designed for Leaders and Teams Who Drive Strategy
The System That Makes Strategic Planning Work.
FastTrack™ is built specifically for:
• Business Owners and their Leadership Teams
• CEOs and Senior Management
• Entrepreneurs and Start-Up Teams
• Executive Directors and Nonprofit Boards
• Association Managers and Directors
• Partners in Professional Firms
• Government Agency Leaders and Teams
Perfect for both individual leaders and collaborative teams.
While one person typically leads the process, FastTrack™ makes it easy to gather team input, export drafts for review, and build consensus around your strategic direction.
Work at the pace that fits your organization.
Use the FastTrack™ system step-by-step in our proven sequence, or jump to the sections that seem most relevant. Save your progress anytime and return when ready. Every element contributes to creating and executing a strategic plan aimed at achieving your vision of great success.
2. Create Your Foundation
AI-enhanced identification of relevant trends
Best-worst scaling to prioritize SWOT insights
Mission and Core Values alignment for Vision creation
VisionLens™ evaluator to craft the Vision
Strategic gap identification with possible remedies
4. Execute with Confidence
Implementation Planning (Unique to FastTrack™!)
Risk and contingency planning
Implementation Dashboard with live updates
Monthly implementation check-in
Quarterly assessment framework
Annual replanning cycle
See FastTrack™ in Action
From Today’s Reality to Future Success—Every Tool You Need
1. Assess Your Current Reality
Business assessment across key dimensions
Financial analysis and modeling tools
Business model evaluation (30+ models)
Environmental scanning and strategic foresight for opportunities/threats
Competitive analysis for up to 5 competitors or competitor classes
Stakeholder input templates
3. Build Your Roadmap
Strategic goals for each strategy area
Strategies to reach the goals for each strategy area
12-month action steps with SMART scoring
Objectives and a strategy map showing plan logic
Comprehensive KPI builder
5. Get Help When You Need It
Kai, your AI planning assistant for on-demand guidance
Examples and templates throughout
Best practices built into every step
Save, export, and share capabilities
Upgrade to Fast Start or Coached tiers: Get expert consulting for plan creation and ongoing coaching to assure plan implementation
Choose Your Success Path
Three Ways FastTrack™ Can Transform Your Organization
Organizations that build and implement good strategic plans are much more likely to grow and succeed, adapt to change, and achieve their goals and vision.
FastTrack™ is the system designed to do exactly that—at the level of support that fits your needs.
• Self-Directed gives you the tools you need to create and implement your plan.
It’s the complete system for use by confident leaders to achieve their goals and vision.
• Fast Start ensures you create a world-class plan.
Turn your and your team's ideas into a world-class strategic plan with expert guidance from a strategy consultant.
• Coached offers assurance that you will actually implement your plan (which otherwise is the usual point of failure).
Monthly strategy coaching ensures that you stay the course and achieve the great outcomes you envision.
Self-Directed
Full platform access for motivated leaders
Complete strategic planning platform with all the tools you need to create and implement your plan independently.
Platform Features:
20+ planning & assessment tools
VisionLens™ technology
CLIME™ implementation system
Kai AI assistant 24/7
Implementation dashboard
Progress tracking tools
Save, export, print capabilities
Perfect for: Leaders confident in self-directed work who want professional tools at an affordable price.
Fast Start
Platform PLUS expert plan creation
Get your strategic plan created faster and with greater confidence through expert consulting support from seasoned professionals.
Everything in Self-Directed PLUS:
4 hours one-on-one consulting with an experienced strategy consultant
Expert guidance creating YOUR plan
Best practices validation
Customized strategies for your situation
Accelerated timeline to completion
Professional plan review
Implementation roadmap design
Your consultant: Our strategic planning consultants have decades of experience working with organizations to develop best practices strategic business plans. Learn more about our consulting team at Forrest Consulting.
Perfect for: Leaders who value expert input to ensure their plan is excellent and executable.
Coached
Platform with expert plan creation PLUS ongoing implementation support
Never lose momentum with monthly coaching from an experienced strategy coach to ensure your plan gets implemented and achieves results.
Everything in Fast Start (including 4 hours of consulting for plan creation) PLUS:
12 hours annual implementation coaching
Monthly accountability sessions with your coach
Navigate challenges as they arise
Real-time plan adjustments
Strategic opportunity assessment
Continuous optimization
Your dedicated success partnership
How Your 12 Coaching Hours Work:
• Monthly 60-minute implementation sessions throughout the year
• Each session focuses on accountability, problem-solving, and progress
• Quarterly reviews and annual replanning integrated into monthly sessions
• Access (limited) to your coach between sessions
• Plus: Your initial 4 hours of consulting to create the plan
Note: Annual replanning uses next year's consulting hours, upon renewal.
Your coach: Work with a strategic business coach from our team that has helped 100s of leaders guide their organizations to their vision of great success. Learn more about our coaching approach at Forrest Consulting.
Perfect for: Leaders who value expert ongoing coaching to ensure implementation success.
Partner Organization Member Discounts
We proudly offer exclusive discounts of up to 30% on all tiers for members of select business organizations, trade associations, and other partners.
Self-Directed: $17.95/month
Fast Start: $79.95/month
Coached: $249.95/month
Click here to see if you are eligible and, if so, how to get your discount.
More Than Software—A Complete Strategic Success System
Why Leaders Choose FastTrack™
🎯Comprehensive System
From initial assessment through implementation tracking, all the tools you need in one place
🤖AI-Powered Guidance
Kai, your 24/7 planning assistant, helps sharpen your thinking and provides expert feedback.
🔄Living Plan Technology
Monthly check-ins, quarterly assessments, and annual replanning keep your plan relevant and actionable
💡Behavioral Insights
Builds on insights from Lee Crumbaugh’s book, BIG DECISIONS, to assure better strategic decision making, avoid mental traps, and reduce resistance to change
👥Expert Consulting and Coaching Options
Choose self-directed or add professional consulting and coaching to ensure success
📊Enterprise-Grade Tools
Access to the same frameworks used by Fortune 500 companies, made affordable for organizations of any size
📈Proven Methodology
Grounded on International Association for Strategy Professionals best practices, 35+ years of real-world success, and insights from Lee Crumbaugh’s book, AHEAD: Strategy is the Way to a Better Future
🚀Implementation Focus
Unlike traditional planning approaches, FastTrack™ drives execution through structured implementation planning and a real-time dashboard
System Capabilities That Drive Results
Professional Strategy Tools Made Accessible
Planning Intelligence
• Multi-model business analysis
• Best-Worst SWOT prioritization
• Competitive positioning analysis
• Structured stakeholder assessment
Vision Crafting with VisionLens™
• Existing vision statement refinement
• Key questions to answer for options
• Kai AI generation of alternatives
• Scoring of visions to find the strongest
Strategy Development
• Strategic gaps analysis
• Strategies rating system
• Objectives builder
• KPI frameworks with benchmarks
Progress Management
• Real-time dashboards
• Financial ratio tracking
• Progress reporting tools
• Export capabilities
Implementation Power
(Our Unique Advantage!)
• Comprehensive implementation planning
• Real-time implementation dashboard
• SMART action step scoring
• Milestone tracking
• Risk mitigation planning
• Communication templates
What Leaders Say About Our Planning Process
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"Lee Crumbaugh is one of the most amazing, skilled and insightful consultants I have ever hired. In fact, many of his strategic planning materials are still in my possession and reviewed - 18 years later!"
John Sygielski
President, Harrisburg Area Community College
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“An invaluable resource for getting my company past the start up phase. When we met, I was the sole employee of the company. Two years later we have a staff of 8 therapists and 2 administrators - and still growing!"
Allison Hoff
AH Concierge Physical Therapy
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"Amazing guidance on business plans, budgeting, strategic plans and much much more. A wealth of knowledge when it comes to helping you to plan out your business and is great at helping you trouble-shoot when you are feeling stuck.'‘
Michelle Burke
Health & Taxes, LLC
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“Lee and his team from Forrest Consulting did a fabulous job walking The Association for Challenge Course Technology through an extensive Strategic Planning process. Very fun, Energetic, candid, directional and helpful!”
Michelle Hepler
Executive Director
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"Lee is a world-class leader. Inspirational and persuasive. His strongest talent is in bringing together top minds with differing viewpoints, tapping into their wisdom, and creating passion and collaboration around a core vision and approach."
David Willden
CEO, Creating You Inc.
Your Strategic Planning Department in the Cloud
Stop choosing between quality planning and affordable pricing
Without FastTrack™
Expensive consultants ($10K-$100K+) or questionable DIY plans
Static plans that aren’t executed
No implementation support
Excel spreadsheets and Word docs
Low odds of sustained implementation
With FastTrack™
Professional planning system ($24.95+/month)
Living plan with real-time tracking
Built-in implementation framework
Integrated tools and dashboards
Data-driven success
FAQs
Is FastTrack™ really as comprehensive as hiring consultants?
Yes. FastTrack™ includes the same tools and frameworks used by top consulting firms, plus implementation support that most consultants do not provide. Built-in guidance and Kai, your AI planning assistant, help ensure you don’t miss key steps in developing and implementing your strategy.
How does FastTrack™ differ from other strategy platforms?
Most strategy platforms are strongest at tracking execution after the strategy is defined.
FastTrack™ is more comprehensive. It offers one integrated system for understanding your current reality, defining the future you want to achieve, building strategies to reach it, assessing plan strength through strategy maps and alignment checks, and implementing the plan using action steps, KPIs, dashboards, and structured review cycles.
How long does it take to create a strategic plan?
Many organizations complete their initial strategic plan in 2–4 weeks, working 3–6 hours per week.
FastTrack™ guides you step-by-step through the process, and you can save your progress anytime and return whenever it’s convenient.
What makes the AI assistant helpful?
Kai provides on-demand assistance whenever you need it—generating ideas, identifying trends, analyzing inputs, critiquing drafts, and offering examples and best practices.
It’s like having a strategic advisor available whenever you want a second perspective.
Can multiple team members use the platform?
A FastTrack™ subscription provides one organizational login. For data integrity and security reasons, one person typically manages the plan while gathering input from the leadership team.
This often occurs during planning workshops where team members collaborate on ideas. Strategic plans, implementation plans, and dashboards can all be exported and shared with the team.
What if we already have a strategic plan?
Perfect. You can enter your existing goals and strategies into FastTrack™ and immediately begin using its implementation tools.
FastTrack helps translate strategy into objectives, KPIs, action steps, and milestones, and then track progress through the Implementation Dashboard, monthly check-ins, quarterly assessments, and annual replanning.
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