Creative Strategy Workshops & Breakthrough Strategy Programs

We support ambitious and visionary leaders in developing creative, customer-centric, and human-scale strategies that break through blockages and enable a bold vision and/or breakthrough innovation to be realized.

We design and facilitate co-creative processes and workshops that harness systemic thinking and customer insights—and the ideas and collective intelligence of your leaders, people managers, partners, and frontline workers—to diagnose obstacles, design solutions, and communicate inspiring and grounded strategies that focus the entire organization on what is needed to win.

“Huge impact! Outstanding framework and powerful tools.”

President, Kellogg’s

Co-Create Breakthrough Strategies

A successful strategy development process should harness collective intelligence and creative thinking to diagnose obstacles accurately and challenge outdated assumptions rather than reinforce them—as most strategy planning processes do—otherwise underperformance, repeated fails, strategy-reality mismatches, and failure all follow.

We believe that radical complexity and ruthless uncertainty mean that cognitive smarts and past successes are no longer enough to craft a winning strategy. We provide visionary yet learn-positive leaders with the collective intelligence tools, sensemaking frames, group practices, and guidance/coaching needed to push an organization or business unit toward a breakthrough strategy that is likely to triumph in the digital and disrupted world.

Craft A Concrete Pathway To Overcome Barriers To Success—Not A Series Of Goals & Ambitions

A winning strategy should be a company- and context-specific pathway to achieve a vision—designed from the start to break through all and any barriers—and should never be confused with mission, vision, goals, KPIs, values, or purpose (although it should embed and inform all of these)

Leverage Technology & Regenerativity For Exponential Value Creation & Sustainable Impact

A winning strategy should capitalize on digital and synthetic technologies that create and capture outsized value—driving top-line growth rather than relying on operational efficiencies and marginal gains to Business-As-Usual—yet should integrate planetary and human limits to growth and extraction

Design Original Strategies That Are Owned & Enacted By Your Leaders

A winning strategy should be authored and executed by the leaders of the organization—who have the agency, ownership, and influence to deliver it— and never be outsourced to smart consultants who are not accountable, responsible, or committed enough to deliver it

Harness All Your Data, Collective Intelligence, Customer & Market Insight, Foresight & Future Thinking

A winning strategy should find and metabolize deep insights from future scenarios (scenario planning), big data, trend spotting, anticipatory market research, and major drivers of societal change to both fit and forge the future of your industry and ecosystem

Galvanize The Full Innovation Potential, Collective Intelligence & Purpose Of Your People

A winning strategy requires a fundamentally creative and bold act—at once imaginative yet grounded, creative yet concrete—and requires the full ingenuity, insight, and care of your people to envision a better way forward (whilst managing chaos and incoherence)

Include All Functions & Stakeholders With A Smart & Wise Process That Unlocks Engagement & Excitement

The development of a winning strategy is a rare opportunity to engage and include as many as possible in the future of the organization—and which can realize the full potential of the capabilities, qualities, and character of your people

Make Sense Of Complexity, Embrace Uncertainty & Resolve Paradoxes Before Landing On The Solution

A winning strategy should seek to engage with radical complexity rather than deny it or over-simplify it by thin-slicing—which means avoiding biases, groupthink, and wishful thinking that obscure and distort—which requires the use of multiple sensemaking lenses, deep dialogue, and coherence-making

Simplify Into A Compelling Story With Sticky Memes & Coherent Bold Moves

A winning strategy requires the translation of rigorous thinking into a coherent and compelling narrative that meets people where they are at and takes them higher—and should be transmitted through accessible bite-size chunks that invite the focus scant attention and resources onto what is going to make a difference

“Use their unique voice and powerful insights to inspire. Their ideas are as relevant to the newest startup as they are to the oldest public company.”

Special Advisor & Head Of White House Office of Social Innovation