We see strategy and innovation as living processes refined through feedback loops. Our three service areas equip your organization to see clearly, act intentionally, and test your processes and offerings to ensure they increase the value transfer between thinking and doing, allowing for good ideas to surface anywhere and ensuring that strategy is always grounded in reality.
Ongoing advisory for founders, transformation leaders, or public sector leaders working on complex change.
Examples:
Workshops and labs for leadership teams driving alignment, navigating change and building new strategies.
Project-based consulting helping organizations translate emerging technology and big ambitions into real services and programs.
Your deliverables have become immediately useful, with the Advisory Board this morning deciding we have to take a focused approach (as opposed to a full scale approach) based on your research and conversations… Your work did a nice job of distilling the main things to be thinking about and giving the next thinking shape.
Program Director, Gary Community Ventures
I was continuously impressed by Lauren's ability to quickly and deeply understand the user problems at hand using both quant and qual methods, to effectively communicate her findings, and make data-informed strategic recommendations to a wide variety of stakeholders… As a product person, it's like finding gold to have a creative partner who understands the broader business and technology at hand.
Head of Product, Bellese Technologies
Lauren is a thoughtful listener, and she pairs it with broad business acumen and a native sense of how to reframe your thinking to productive ends… She's helped me think through my leadership style, where I find excitement and where I find frustration, and how to improve. This has had a measurable impact on my business, my happiness, and my life.
CEO, Aclymate
Lauren is an accomplished leader skilled at using user research to create clarity and translate that clarity into actionable organizational strategy. While design strategy and innovation sometimes seems amorphous, Lauren possesses the ability to drive concrete changes and business results.
Service Design Lead, Bank of America
At WHOLE Innovation and Design, "whole" is an ethos that underscores all we do, as a principle for our ways of working, and the quality of outcome and experience we seek to create.
New possibilities emerge when working toward wholeness. It's an act of imagination and of integration. To be whole is to hold complexity and to acknowledge the parts of a system. To create with those that are impacted by the problem and the solution. It's to be values- and value-driven. We build a more whole future in context, in relationship and through practice.
Founded by Lauren Sinreich, WHOLE is a network of designers, artists, strategists, and technologists seeking to create more whole futures in this era of change, uncertainty and opportunity. Drawing on more than two decades of experience working across social innovation, technology, systems change, and human-centered design, Lauren has guided Fortune 500s, foundations, government agencies, and cross-sector coalitions through moments of transformation.
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