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Depends on the agency. To me, it's all a part of strategy. But some strategy departments, like Huge's, has traditional consultants (aka business strategists), planners, content strategists and digital product strategists. Therefore, not every strategist is a planner. But every planner is a strategist.
The way I see it, a great planner is like the team's cultural anthropologist. They're able to get to the heart of how we can connect with the completely irrational, volatile, complex creatures known as human beings and helps the team uncover their unmet needs, in whatever ways we need to manifest them to move people. They help all of us make work that hits upon the visceral. The intangible. What data can't tell us. And what makes people go, "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang."
...and the Strategist is responsible for determining if that ^above^ is worth doing, from the perspective of the client's business needs, strategic imperatives, etc.
All the same thing but the discipline varies but a good strategist isn't in a silo of marketing discipline and is a trusted business advisor
This question is better served to talk about the future of strategy. This silo thinking in strategy is limiting for clients