Our Services
Think of us as lab partners.
We help you develop and experiment with the most creative ideas to 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 come together to support your needs through workshops and ongoing consultancies.
There are six key areas where we excel at crafting 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.
We leverage human-centered design principles to harness the purpose, knowledge and wonder that your target communities and networks already seek and have (whether or not you realize it) to create a more effective, efficient team.
Innovation Strategy & Experiments
Perhaps you have a great vision for the future but don’t know how to get there.
We help with “transformative skills,” like storytelling, as well as with “hard skills,” like design & development.
By creating and aligning an innovation strategy, breaking it down to into a roadmap, and outlining a business case, we make it possible for your big visions come to life.
We’ll make sure your stakeholders appreciate the opportunities as well.
Place-Making
Design Solutions
Whether you use physical places or digital spaces to create communities, you need to see opportunities through new eyes to reach new audiences.
You also need to harness inspiring place-making strategies to create the centers of gravity that launch your vision.
Using storytelling, creative idea-storming, and community building, we create radically inspiring destinations that attract passionate communities to connect and create experiences together.
Experience & Journey
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 companies and organizations, issue-focused foundations, nonprofits and national tourism initiatives proactively engage audiences seeking to explore new global narratives.
We use a storytelling-based approach and leverage our unique access to culture creators around the world to create impactful experiences that inspire and lead your audiences to see communities and countries with new eyes.
Team-Building & Group Experience Facilitation
Some conversations are easy, and others ... not so much.
But the best conversations are purposeful and effective, and the best way to create those conversations is to engage a skilled facilitator.
We create the custom frameworks to make sure team retreats, design sprints, conferences, and community convenings are always uplifting and efficient.
We love the chance to remind people that coming together can be an amazing opportunity to go farther ... together.
Executive Coaching
Sometimes what you really need is help reviewing and reframing your own personal leadership challenges.
Maybe you need some support finding better ways to inspire your team, or even yourself.
Leading organizational change is 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.