Our Services
Think of us as lab partners.
We’re the lab partners who can help you develop and experiment with the most creative ideas you believe can help you achieve your most important goals.
Like any lab, our work is multi-faceted, and depending on the project, different members of our team of optimistic collaborators and experimenters will come together to support your needs through workshops and ongoing consultancies.
There are six key areas where we can excel at helping you craft optimistic solutions to your key challenges:
Community and Organizational Design
Perhaps you want to strategically and effectively inspire members of your target audiences (including your employees) to be more engaged with one another in shared vision, values, experiences and actions. To help, we leverage human-centered design principles and strategic thinking approaches that focus on harnessing the, knowledge and wonder that your target communities and networks already seek and have (whether or not you realize it).
Innovation Strategy & Experiments
Strategy
Perhaps you have a great vision for the future but do not know how to get there. We can help with storytelling and “transformative skills” as well as with “hard skills” like design & development. By creating and aligning an innovation strategy, diligently breaking it down to roadmaps and plans, and then creating a business case, we can help your big visions come to life and make sure your stakeholders see the opportunities as well.
Place-Making Solutions
Design
Whether you use physical places or digital spaces to create communities, sometimes you need to see opportunities through new eyes so that you can reach new audiences. You also need to harness inspiring place-making strategies to create centers of gravity around your vision.
Using our experience implementing a range of approaches to storytelling, creative idea-storming and community building, we can help you advance your organization’s ability to create radically inspiring spaces and destinations that attract passionate communities to connect and create experiences together.
Experience & Journey Design
Design
It’s not just about the community and the destination. It’s about the journey as well. Based on our deep understanding of experience and journey design, we help a range of companies and organizations, issue-focused foundations, nonprofits and national tourism initiatives proactively engage audiences seeking to explore new narratives in places near and far.
Using a storytelling-based approach to create experiences that inspire, and leveraging our unique access to culture creators around the world, we help our clients create impact by leading their audiences to see communities and countries with new eyes.
Team-Building & Group Facilitation
Experiences
Some conversations are easy, and some...not so much. But the best conversations are both purposeful and effective, and the best way to create those conversations is to engage a skilled facilitator. We know how to create the custom frameworks to make sure team retreats, design sprints, conferences, and community convenings are always uplifting and efficient. And we love the chance to remind people that coming together can be an amazing opportunity to go farther...together.
Executive Coaching
Coaching
Sometimes what you really need is someone to work with you to review and reframe your own personal leadership challenges. Maybe you need some support in finding better ways to inspire your team, or even yourself. We understand that leading organizational change can be challenging, and that’s why we work with a select number of individuals on a one-on-one and small team basis to help them become more effective (and optimistic) leaders.