WE DON’T SUPPLANT
YOUR EXPERTISE,
YOUR EXPERTISE,
WE SUPPORT IT.
Respecting Mission,
Understanding Business
We partner with you to build on your existing success. Together we develop approaches and share innovation-based skills to maximize opportunities, solve challenges and energize the status quo in practical ways that can help meet your organization’s goals.
Workshops
Skill Building workshops
Workshops offer fun, energetic and engaging environments where teams learn practical skills to take back into their own organization.
Topic specific and short format, workshops can also be customized. Example workshops:
- Practicing AI Tools for Ideation and Collaboration
- For-Profit Mindset, Non-Profit Values
- Crafting Narratives for Funding and Audience Engagement
- Agile Mindset For Impact
Facilitated
dialogue
Facilitated conversations can help your team consider core questions and imagine fresh answers in a more neutral and innovation-forward environment. We leverage human-centered approaches to craft discussions and activities that help boards, trustees, leadership teams, employees and community members to share and evaluate perspectives. The outcomes are designed based on what your team needs, so they differ each time.
- Guided Brainstorming Sessions
- Facilitated Tough Topic Discussions
Anchored in Innovation Practice
People often think that being innovative is a personality trait held by a few creative geniuses. In fact, innovation is a process and a skill any person and any team can learn. Our services and project engagements are intended to first help your team learn how to innovate and secondly to be a thought and action resource to help your team execute on innovative ideas.
Services
A combination of human-centered design methodology and agile mindset, this is typically a phased engagement with a specific problem or opportunity in mind. Insights lead to ideation and the to a roadmap to support implementation towards impact.
Sometimes teams know what they want to do but aren’t sure how to get there. This retainer service offers strategic and tactical support as needed, typically useful for medium and large teams who periodically need infusions of support.
Successful ideas grow from nuggets of insight. Human-centered interviews and listening sessions can help teams understand what visitors, stakeholders, customers and employees want and need. When quantitative scale is needed we partner with research experts to design and deploy traditional studies.
While important, strategic planning can feel burdensome to teams focused on operating excellence day-to-day. We offer comprehensive partnership from mapping out and project managing the process, to conducting stakeholder review/approval sessions, developing programs and documenting plans and policy changes.
With deep experience in branding, creative development and marketing planning and execution, we can develop end-to-end marketing plans or partner with your marketing team on specific initiatives where innovative approaches may be needed.
We employ innovation approaches to identify channels, partnerships and programs that may help create more financial independence. From diversifying funding pools to developing revenue-generating tactics, our business mindset combined with mission-based spirit offers a unique value to you.