what we do

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Change is hard and getting harder.

We are here to help.

Network Engagement

Visualize, catalyze, and engage motivated teams and networks.

Set up coordination processes with your teams and partners that avoid both silos and information overwhelm.

Communication for Connection and Change

Explore your current audience and stakeholder needs to come up with an effective communication strategy.

Learn which type of messaging is effective to connect more meaningfully and motivate action. Come away with a communication plan and schedule.

Adaptive Strategy

See your strategy clearly, find direction, and adapt to a changing landscape.

Gain clarity and leverage your work with a dynamic and data-driven approach to strategic planning.

Community-centered design

Co-create solutions to shared problems and create lasting impact, together.

Generate partnerships, solve shared problems, and better understand impact through participatory design work.

Customize your strategic approach

All of us are struggling as fast-growing complexity creates a dangerously unpredictable world under our feet. As expert complexity wranglers, mappers, and strategists, we support collaborative groups by lifting your gaze to see and position challenges and opportunities in a shared landscape. You are part of a community seeking solutions to your own challenges. You also know the value of shared understanding, and how hard that is to achieve. We unearth deep insights through joining your team in co-creating a process that explores this landscape, catalyzes dialogue, gains clarity, and opens new paths forward.

Let's get Started

Tell us a bit about your project and teams to get started.

Why work with us?

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Increase clarity and engagement. All of our work is participatory, done in collaboration with our clients, and iterative, shaped by the feedback we get from you and your participants along the way. We co-create with you, fostering excitement and engagement from your team or community. Be prepared to get curious, and to learn.

2

Unlock the power of differences. Teams that show up with a wide variety of perspectives can have powerful impacts, and avoid 'group think'. However, this collaborative strength can overshadowed by our differences. Specialized jargon, conflicting assumptions and blind spots from different life experiences, and diverging mental models of change can sow tension and conflict. We offer ways to make these fundamentals more clear, and help create common ground.

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Make insights last, and help share them. Gaining insight takes time and effort, and yet too often is hard to share. Our unique approach using mapping and insights gathering makes it easier to bring your hard-won understanding into the next conversation, even when new participants join. Stop repeating the same conversations, and bring your impact to the next level.

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