In education, business, and culture, our contemporary world makes extraordinary demands on what we do and the way we do it. Institutions are challenged by a challenging economy, by rapidly changing forms and uses of media and technology, by highly focused and demanding marketplaces, by a distracted and increasingly visual public. Perhaps the greatest challenge, for businesses and nonprofit organizations alike, is to embrace these challenges and to flex with change. To be responsive in this environment requires self-scrutiny and complex planning. To see what is possible through the perspective of a seasoned eye often opens vistas that have been invisible: to be agile and to be contemporary and to thrive. Critical Vision, through careful advisement and principled program building, can grant individuals and institutions alike the tangible benefits of an expansive, complex understanding of their own endeavors.