About Us

Running Start Institute™

Our mission is to help individuals, communities, and organizations break through to success and to achieve positive change.

Running Start Institute™ fulfills its mission through developing and providing software tools for helping individuals, communities and nonprofit organizations transform themselves through creating and implementing breakthrough strategic plans for positive change and a better future. We support these tools throughout the English-speaking world with manuals, coaching, training and workshops.

The Institute is a United States based nonprofit corporation incorporated in Maine in 1991, now headquartered in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area. Our software and processes have been continuously improved for more than twenty-five years. They are unique, innovative and powerful.

The Institute staff is supporting its growth through adding certified coaches and consultants as associates. Contact ask@runningstart.org to explore joining.

The Institute is conducting a multi-disciplinary long term research study to evaluate the degree of breakthrough in personal and organizational success achieved by using our tools and processes. Contact ask@runningstart.org to explore participating.