For research team leaders, senior postdocs or staff scientists driving lab output and research managers coordinating multiple projects or teams who want:

   ✔️ real progress, not more meetings.

   ✔️ to plan with purpose, not panic.

   ✔️  to step out of firefighting mode. 

   ✔️  to leave with a concrete 2026 plan your whole team can                   see, trust, and follow.

Why planning keeps slipping to “later”

You know you should plan. But research reality gets in the way:

• Firefighting beats strategy. Grants, reviews, teaching, supervision, and student crises push planning to “after this deadline.”

• No simple process. Making a good plan is hard and takes a lot of effort. You need a simple process.

• Underestimated cost. Treating planning as “optional” quietly dilutes focus, misses grant windows, stalls papers, and slows careers.

If nothing changes, priorities drift, coordination soaks your time, output slows, stress rises—and you’ll stumble into 2026 reacting, not leading.

Imagine your 2026 instaed

Picture early 2026:

• You know what to start and when. Every major task has a home.

• Your brain is no longer a to-do warehouse.

• The team moves without constant micromanaging.

• Meetings shrink; logistics get lighter.

• You spend your best hours on the thing that actually matters: your research.

This is what we design with you, step by step, during I strategize 2026.