Colorful Strategy House Template for PowerPoint & Google Slides

The strategy house is a planning model consultants use to show how a company’s strategic layers stack on top of each other. Values at the foundation, initiatives and goals as the walls, mission as the top floor, and vision as the roof. When everything lines up, the house stands. When one layer is weak, the whole structure wobbles. That’s the metaphor, and this slide turns it into a visual.

The slide has five layers arranged as a house shape in the center. Red triangular roof at the top for Vision. Green horizontal bar for Mission. Three teal boxes for Goals. Two purple rectangles for Initiatives. Three yellow blocks at the base for Shared Values. Each layer has its own color so the audience can track which element belongs where.

Down the left side, five matching colored label tags identify each layer (Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Goals, Our Initiatives, Shared Values) with connector lines pointing to the house. On the right side, five description blocks give you space to write out what each layer means for your specific company.

How Strategy Consultants Use This

Strategy firms build this kind of slide for clients during annual planning workshops. The exercise forces leadership to articulate each layer explicitly instead of keeping them vague. You can’t fill in “Our Initiatives” without naming them. You can’t fill “Shared Values” with three generic words and call it done, because the three blocks at the base are sized for actual statements.

McKinsey, Bain, and BCG all use some variation of the strategy house in client deliverables. The value is that it forces dependencies to be visible. If your Goals don’t support your Mission, or your Initiatives don’t map to your Goals, the structure falls apart, and that’s often where the real strategic conversation starts.

Filling It In

Start at the top and work down. Vision first, because it’s the longest-range statement. Then Mission, which explains how you pursue the vision. Then three Goals that break the mission into measurable outcomes. Then two Initiatives that are the specific programs or projects you’ll run to hit those goals. Finally, three Shared Values that describe how the team behaves regardless of what they’re working on.

Each layer has a text placeholder on the right side for longer descriptions. Use those to add context that doesn’t fit inside the colored blocks themselves. The block count is flexible. If you have four goals instead of three or one initiative instead of two, duplicate or delete blocks as needed.

The layout also works for department-level strategy (not just company-wide). HR strategy house, marketing strategy house, IT strategy house. Same five layers, different content at each level.