Creative strategy and design thinking for organizations navigating change

When things feel unclear, stuck, or overwhelming, curiosity becomes a powerful leadership skill. Through workshops, strategy sessions, and innovation coaching, we partner with teams to make sense of complexity and move beyond insights into meaningful strategies, prototypes, and organizational change.

Common Engagements

  • Workshop design & facilitation

  • Design thinking coaching

  • Design sprints

  • Human-centered design + AI workshops and sprints

  • Strategic discovery sessions

  • Stakeholder alignment

  • Research synthesis

  • We design and facilitate thoughtful, structured processes that help people:

    • Understand what truly matters

    • Ask better questions

    • See problems from new angles

    • Align around meaningful action

    Our work blends design thinking, creativity, and strategic clarity.

  • Getting started is simple. Reach out through our contact form with a summary of what you need. We offer services for:

    • Companies and small teams

    • Nonprofits and foundations

    • Civic and cultural organizations

    • Small towns and community groups

    If your work involves people, complexity, and change, this approach can be transformational.

  • We don’t arrive with pre-packaged answers. We start with listening.

    This process usually includes:

    • Understanding your context and constraints

    • Designing a custom engagement

    • Facilitating conversations that unlock insight

    • Translating ideas into clear next steps

Recent Collaborations

  • Judy Chicago Research Portal

    Led multi-institutional workshops to align stakeholders and design the future of an online archive spanning Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, Penn State University Libraries, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. This project was a collaboration with Judy Chicago’s Through The Flower Foundation, with an ultimate goal of finding ways to unify and preserve Judy’s digital legacy.

  • The Nature Conservancy

    Designed and co-facilitated a multi-month engagement for the Gates Foundation and the Nature Conservancy, to bring together professionals from diverse industries (global banking and investment, small-scale farmers, and climate scientists) to envision and plan for a more resilient future for sub-Saharan African farmers. Led a four-day design sprint in Nairobi to create and test detailed prototypes of a potential solution.

“The facilitators were amazing; the sessions were engaging; the environment was buzzing. I'm converted!”

— Workshop participant