ABOUT US
Our Vision
At Oso Strategics, we believe every living creature’s most basic desire is to be happy, content, and free of suffering. As we each pursue our own definition of happiness, we quickly learn that life is full of disappointment and frustration. One of our deepest frustrations is learning and accepting we are finite creatures. We have a limited number of resources, and an even more limited amount of time. We cannot have or do everything. Our lives are filled with choices on how we will spend our time and resources, and every choice we make limits or removes other options.
Ideally, our choices reflect our dreams, ambitions, and goals. Sadly, they often do not. We make choices that at best, fail to advance our dreams, and at worst, actually hinder them. We say we want to buy a house and are saving for a down payment, but we go out for lunch everyday. We say we value time with our families and friends, but we work unnecessary overtime. We say we want to learn a foreign language, read more, take music lessons, play a sport, or start a business, but we spend hours scrolling through social media. We say we want to stop climate change, but don’t take any steps to lower our emissions or limit our consumption. As a result, we feel as though life is passing us by, as though we’re not achieving any of our dreams, and we waste our limited time and resources on things that don’t actually bring us lasting happiness.
This is not sustainable. Neither we nor the Earth have the resources to waste. The Earth is finite, just as we are. We live on a planet with limited amounts of clean air and water, arable land, habitable space, and other natural resources. The Earth exists in a delicate physical, chemical, and biological balance, and every living creature depends on that balance for survival. Our mindless consumption hurts our own lives, but also the other living creatures we share the Earth with. Climate change, ocean acidification, worsening wildfires and hurricanes, overflowing landfills, the loss of biodiversity. We are driving ourselves off a cliff, to the suffering and ruin of all.
At Oso Strategics, we believe in a different path. We believe we can achieve happier, more sustainable outcomes for all living creatures through mindful, deliberate living and consumption. Doing so requires strategic planning, reflection, and analysis.
At Oso Strategics, we envision a world where people are inspired to live sustainably, conserve the world around us, and value the living creatures we share it with. We are inspired to work with communities and families, businesses and organizations, and within ourselves to plan for the lives we want. We set goals based on our dreams, establish priorities and objectives, and take action. We make deliberate, conscious decisions on how we use our time and resources, and in doing so, reduce waste.
At Oso Strategics, we Conserve through Strategy.
Our Mission
At Oso Strategics, our mission is to inspire and encourage people to live sustainably and strategically. To do so, we…
… help communities develop opportunities for sustainable growth and resilience;
… help businesses and organizations develop their strategic plans, analyze and improve their operations, and train their teams;
… help individuals reflect on their dreams and ambitions, develop goals and plans, hold themselves accountable, and live the lives they want;
… help inspirational environmental artists get their art to market and thrive as artists;
…are an employer our team members brag about working with;
… and invest our profits back into our mission through artist sponsorships, grants for communities, small businesses, non-profits, and individuals in need of our services, increased compensation for our team, and charitable donations.