Strategic Planning Excellence for Government Contractors
Is Your 2026 Business Plan Where You Want It To Be?
FutureBridge & Vericol present an interactive, high-impact strategy session for GovCon CEOs, Presidents, and senior executives.
Event Details
Date: January 21, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Venue: Conference Center at Valo Park
Address: 7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22102
Investment: Complimentary
Format: Interactive, small-group executive session (limited to 15-20 participants)
Benefiting: ECHO – supporting meaningful employment for adults with learning disabilities
Sharpen Your Strategic Focus for 2026
GovCon leaders are entering one of the most complex and opportunity-rich environments in years. Budget pressures, procurement shifts, cybersecurity demands, and technology modernization are reshaping what “good” looks like.
This session equips you with the frameworks, insights, and tools to strengthen your 2026 plan and increase enterprise value.
Strategic Planning Foundations
What high-performing GovCons do differently — and why strategic clarity is the #1 predictor of growth and valuation.
Operational & Technology Excellence
The systems, analytics, and technology needed to execute your plan and provide leadership visibility.
Pipeline & Portfolio Optimization
Align business development with enterprise value and focus on the contracts and opportunities that matter most.
The Valuation Connection
How planning, operational maturity, and financial performance increase valuation and owner optionality.
We’re in the heart of strategic planning season. Use this session as a catalyst for your internal discussions – it’s not too late to refine your strategy and accelerate your results for 2026.
What You Will Gain
- Sharper focus for your 2026 business plan
- Actionable tools for your leadership team
- Clarity around value blockers and growth constraints
- Alignment of people, pipeline, operations, and financials
- Frameworks to position your business for scale, sale, or succession
This is a “use it tomorrow” session – not theory.
Who Should Attend
- CEOs and Presidents of government contracting firms
- Chief Growth Officers and Business Development executives
- COOs and senior operations leaders
- CFOs focused on strategic growth and valuation
- Owners considering their company’s future options
Participation is limited to 15–20 executives to ensure meaningful interaction and personalized discussion.
Why Attend
Strategic Clarity: Walk away with frameworks you can implement immediately to align your pipeline strategy, operational systems, and growth investments with clear business objectives.
Increased Enterprise Value: Learn strategic planning disciplines that reduce valuation killers like customer concentration, sub dependency, and key person risk.
Preserve Your Options: Discover how strategic planning excellence creates maximum flexibility for your future – whether that means selling, scaling, succession planning, or running a more profitable company.
Peer Learning: Connect with fellow government contractor executives in an intimate setting (15-20 participants) facing similar strategic challenges and opportunities.
Expert Guidance: Benefit from the combined expertise of FutureBridge’s exit planning and value acceleration specialists and Vericol’s GovCon capture and operational excellence professionals.
Perfect Timing: We’re in strategic planning season – use this session to refine your approach and set yourself up for success in 2026.
What You’ll Receive
- Digital resources and templates for immediate implementation
- Strategic planning assessment tools
- Complimentary post-event strategic planning assessment consultation
- Access to additional resources and expert guidance
Event Agenda
9:00 – 9:25 AM | Registration, Breakfast & Networking
Continental breakfast, meet presenters, connect with fellow GovCon leaders.
9:25 – 9:35 AM | Welcome & Opening Remarks
Why strategic planning excellence matters now more than ever in the GovCon space.
9:35 – 11:05 AM | Core Session: Strategic Planning Excellence Framework
Fast-moving, discussion-driven deep dive covering all four integrated frameworks:
- Strategic Planning Foundations – what high-performing GovCons do differently
- Pipeline & Portfolio Optimization – aligning growth strategy with enterprise value
- Operational & Technology Excellence – systems and analytics that enable execution
- The Valuation Connection – why strategic clarity is the #1 driver of optionality
11:05 – 11:25 AM | Interactive Discussion & Q&A
Address your specific strategic planning challenges and implementation questions.
11:25 – 11:30 AM | Closing: Your Strategic Planning Roadmap
90-day action plan and next steps you can implement immediately.
Reserve Your Spot
Reserve your seat for the January 21 GovCon Strategic Planning Session.
Space is strictly limited to 15-20 participants to ensure meaningful interaction and discussion. This complimentary session is exclusively for CEOs, Presidents, and senior executives of government contracting firms.
Supporting ECHO
A portion of proceeds from this event support ECHO, a nonprofit providing meaningful employment and training opportunities for adults with learning disabilities in Northern Virginia.
Thank you for helping make a positive impact in our community.
Event Sponsors
This session is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors.
Meet the Speakers
Your session will be facilitated by experienced advisors from FutureBridge and Vericol.
Rod Volz, MBA
Founder & Managing Principal, FutureBridge Inc.
Rod Volz is a strategic advisor and fractional CXO with over 25 years of experience helping government contracting and technology-enabled services firms accelerate growth, improve operational performance, and increase enterprise value. He is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and an active advisor to GovCon leaders navigating strategic planning, corporate development, and value acceleration.
Dale Tuttle
Principal Advisor, FutureBridge Collective
Dale Tuttle is a seasoned business operator and executive advisor with 25+ years of leadership across growth strategy, business transformation, and financial management. He has served as COO, CFO, and advisor to high-growth GovCon and professional services firms, guiding organizations through scaling challenges and strategic planning cycles.
Len Disenza
Partner, Vericol
Len Disenza is an accomplished operations and compliance leader with deep experience supporting government contractors across security, governance, delivery, and organizational readiness. As a partner at Vericol, Len helps GovCon firms strengthen process maturity, contract compliance, workforce enablement, and operational discipline.