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BRN holds multi‑hour strategic planning session focused on DEI, mission and goals
Summary
Board of Registered Nursing members and DCA facilitators spent the session reviewing mission, values and eight goal areas, watched two DEI videos and gathered leadership input to draft a five‑year strategic plan. Public comment was invited at multiple points; no formal votes were taken.
The California Board of Registered Nursing on day three of its multi‑day meeting conducted a strategic planning session facilitated by Solid Planning and the Department of Consumer Affairs, with Vice President Nilu Patel presiding in President Dolores Trujillo’s absence.
Board members and staff reviewed the board’s mission and vision statements, discussed proposed organizational values and worked through eight goal areas that will form the draft of a five‑year strategic plan. Tricia St. Clair, strategic business analyst and facilitator with Solid Planning, told the group that “our goal is to end by 3 today,” and led board members through rapid, time‑boxed reviews of existing leadership input and the environmental scan.
Why it mattered: the session is intended to produce a consolidated draft strategic plan the board can revise and then send for action planning. Facilitators said the plan will prioritize attainable objectives (roughly three to six per goal area) and will be followed by a separate action‑planning step assigning responsibilities, timelines and success measures.
Most of the morning and afternoon was devoted to reviewing proposed mission, vision and values and to goal‑area breakouts on licensing, enforcement, alternatives to discipline, continuing education, educational oversight, regulations, administration/customer service and outreach. The board also watched two DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) videos produced for the Department of Consumer Affairs; Lisa Bacon, a DCA training manager, said the training “is a journey, not a destination,” and emphasized plain language, multilingual outreach and measuring equity impacts.
Facilitators asked members to approach objectives as draft language to be tightened later and reminded the board that staff would need to do detailed action planning after the board approves goals. Tricia St. Clair said leadership and managers’ prework had been incorporated into each goal area and that the draft plan would return to the board for review before being presented for approval at a future meeting.
Public participation: the moderator opened the Webex question‑and‑answer panel for public comment at multiple breaks and offered an email contact for anyone unable to join verbally. Several members of the public spoke during enforcement and intervention discussions to describe personal experiences with discipline and the intervention program; the board and legal counsel responded with clarifications about processes and legal limits.
What’s next: Solid Planning will draft the strategic plan based on today’s input and circulate it to the board. Facilitators said the board will get a revised draft in advance of the next meeting and that a separate action‑planning workshop will assign staff tasks, deadlines and success measures for each objective.
