Case Studies
Wide Angle Youth Media
Wide Angle Youth Media (WAYM): A Baltimore-based nonprofit that amplifies youth voices through media arts. Since 2000, WAYM has collaborated with over 8,000 youth to produce thousands of media projects.
WAYM wondered if employer demand existed for a pre-apprenticeship program and if so, where and why. WAYM engaged TSC to assess corporate needs across media fields, along with compensation and placement potential. If demand existed, WAYM planned to pursue a federal grant to create, develop and deploy a pre-apprenticeship program.
TSC spoke with numerous clients, partners, WAYM employees, and students and analyzed open job postings and salaries. The results quantified demand and higher wages for entry level personnel in newer media careers, compared to more traditional occupations roles in film and video or photography.
The readout served as the primary guide and support for a grant writer to pursue federally available funds to develop and launch the new offering.
The Pillars Christian Learning Centers
- Founded in 2009 as a single location in San Antonio, Texas.
- In late 2024, the company acquired two other ECE brands, tripling locations to 21.
- Onboarded multiple senior leaders to add functional experience and harness scale.
- Began assimilating three distinct brands, operations, personal and geographies.
- Augmented and integrated tech stack across organizations.
Create five-year growth plans reflected tripling school locations to 75 and increasing revenue generation to $100 million annually.
- Engaged Tuscany Strategy Consulting (TSC) to create a highly actionable strategic plan that achieved short and long-term revenue and distribution objectives.
- Develop scenario analyses of contribution areas (organic growth, acquisition, service line enhancement) that achieve revenue and location goals.
- Create strategic plan to align senior leadership on short and long-term strategies and tactics.
- Clarify roles, responsibilities and accountabilities of functional teams and their leadership groups.
- Improve stakeholder communication across organizations through common terminologies, frameworks and processes.
- Hold workshops, interviews and strategy sessions to align leaders on becoming a branded house or a house of brands, including industry examples and associated implications.
- Minimize leadership attrition during transition and integration.
- An integrated five-year strategic plan that was agreed to and communicated across companies and leadership teams.
- The plan is referred to regularly as the organization’s north star to ensure cross-functional alignment.
- The organization embraced a hybrid branding solution that limited the number of operating brands to ensure operational consistency and strengthen brand awareness.
- TSC’s partnership resulted in re-engagement that created external communication materials for future acquisitions and investments.
- The Pillars retained all leadership team members throughout the transition and created cross-functional company alignments.
- The plan developed and deployed common vocabularies, frameworks, processes, and success metrics that were adopted and used regularly across functions.
- Upon receiving the final report in 2025, the Pillars continues to execute, measure and achieve results against plan.