Forward Strategies · Free 90-Second Diagnostic

The 5 Policy Fires

How many are already burning inside your organization?

When no one owns the whole fight, the cost never shows up as a line item. It shows up as five specific fires, and they spark whether or not you are fully staffed. Score each one and you will get your exposure number, a count of how many are burning, and a short paragraph you can send straight to leadership.

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What the assessment covers

The five fires a live fight lights

You will rate each one as Contained, Smoldering, or Burning, based on what is true right now rather than what you would like to be true.

1
The Empty Seat at the Table
Coalition and stakeholder rooms where decisions congeal without you in them.
2
The Comment Period Clock
Federal and state filing windows that close on their own schedule, not yours.
3
The Relationship Vacuum
Hill turnover resetting relationships while no one owns the outreach.
4
The Intelligence Blackout
Institutional knowledge that lives in one person's head and leaves when they do.
5
The Credibility Gap
Competitors narrating your interests in the rooms you have gone quiet in.
What you walk away with

A number, and something you can act on

01

Your exposure score

A clear read on where you sit, from contained to full cascade, with a count of how many fires are live today.

02

A board-ready summary

A short paragraph drafted from your answers, written so leadership stops calling this a logistics problem and starts calling it risk.

03

A fire-by-fire breakdown

Each of the five named and rated, so you know exactly which gaps to close first and which can wait.

04

A clear next step

If the fires are live, you will see exactly what it takes to close them, and where to start first.

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Mattie Duppler · Forward Strategies

Find out how many of your fires are burning

Five questions, an honest score, and a memo you can forward while the fight is still live. The risk is predictable, which is the first reason it is reducible.

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