Design Thinking,

Designed for You

We believe in equipping socially focused organization (nonprofits, social enterprises, foundations, and schools) with the mindset, framework, and tools to create innovators who impact their communities and the world.

Trusted by the Best

Stacy Landreth Grau, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Award winning teacher, mentor and coach; current Associate Dean in the John V. Roach Honors College with more than 20 years in higher education; Academic misfit with appointments in three colleges at Texas Christian University; design thinker and social innovator.

Cedric James, M.S.

Co-Founder

What We Offer

Training and Development

  • Introduction to human-centered design workshops
  • Design sprints
  • Creative teams workshops
  • Systems mapping workshops
  • Work-life design workshops

Support

  • Creative coaching
  • Team design and team coaching
  • Client-driven and co-created workshops for specific needs

What We Do

Innovation is a key driver of growth in the 21st-century economy. And organizations – of all kinds – increasingly rely on innovators to create and deliver this key driver in a constantly changing, globally competitive environment. We need to understand innovation – what it is, how to harness it, and why it is important.

Our goal is to provide you and your team with the mindset, framework, and tools to develop new insights about your users (whoever they are), create breakthrough ideas based on user feedback, and then help you convince key stakeholders of the value of those ideas.

But we believe in the essence of a “lab” – places to play and take risks and experiment. We provide workshops on-site as well as team coaching for innovation projects. We also develop community workshops that introduce design thinking principles to organizational leaders and then provide coaching beyond the workshops.

Past Clients

Workshops and Sprints

This includes workshops and design sprints ranging from 2 hours to multiple days.

  • MBA Roundtable
  • Nonprofit Communicators Conference
  • Certified Public Communicators Program
  • Rogue Water – Catalyst Conference
  • SOACE Conference
  • TCU Chancellor’s Leadership Program
  • TCU Neeley Leadership Program
  • TCU Executive MBA
  • TCU Neeley Fellows Program
  • TCU Human Resources – Professional Leadership Program
  • Neeley and Associates
  • Tech FW
  • Tandy Executive Leadership Program 9Goodway Group, JPS, Igus, Adaptive Leadership Program)

Engagement

This includes tailored, specific multi-day engagements that included workshops and coaching for teachers and students.

  • Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts (FWAFA)
  • IM Terrel STEM Academy
  • Oakridge School
  • Trinity Valley School

Contact Us

We’d love to hear from you! Drop us a line below and we’ll be in touch.