So what exactly will we do?

Design Thinking

We’ll quickly decide that together (no charge, no risk) and then I’ll design our session(s) for your team. I’ll facilitate our sessions with your team using one of several design processes chosen to get at your goals. That may be a new user-centric perspective on your challenge or a ton of new solutions and ideas from proposed by your own team. The output may be the framework for a new approach or a few team-prioritized ideas they are excited to prototype. Your team will be glad their voices were heard, their experience was valued, and their ideas have value. That kind of team ownership will add extra energy to your next steps. This is the approach I’ve taken with schools, district leadership, university student groups, staff and faculty, chambers of commerce, and a national retail dessert franchise.

Designing Your Life

We’ll meet for around two hours to go through a customized protocol together, where you’ll have the opportunity to reflect on and learn about yourself through your own experiences, capture your values, and envision multiple different futures. You’ll leave with a new perspective on your career as a component of your larger life design and concrete actions to start building these designs. We can schedule follow-up sessions at your convenience.

Education Co-Design

We’ll work together to understand your organization, its “north star”, its values, and its constraints. I’ll apply a customized design thinking process to help you develop or refine a strategic plan, followed by sessions to translate that strategy into a tactical implementation plan if you like. I take pride in creating education solutions that better fit your organization and stakeholders than off-the-shelf solutions, and even surpass most custom solutions. I’ve facilitated hundreds of design sessions, and as a result, I’ve learned to carefully understand the stakeholders and co-designers in the room. The Community of Practice model is a significant part of what I do, relying on the people in the room to understand the problem and possess the solutions within them. My job is to bring those out and turn them into actionable solutions.

Basic Services

Your first consultation meeting by phone or in person (if you’re not too far) is FREE. We’ll discuss your needs and whether my services could be useful to you.

Two-hour Designing Your Life coaching session (one-on-one) in person or virtual - $150

Two-hour design session with your team - $300

This is the minimum useful session and produces a lot of new ideas for your team.

Half-day design session - $500

This is a good way to pick one element of design for a bit of a deeper dive .. more time unpacking the user experience, more time converging on ideas or more time prototyping and testing.

Full day design session- $1,000

A full day gives us quality time for more unpacking of the ‘user experience’ your team is designing.

Two-day design session - $1,500

Two-day design sessions are my favorite because we get a half-day to unpack the user-centric value we’re targeting, and a half-day for some quality, divergent brainstorming. On day two, we’ll have time to sort through those ideas, converge on some prototypes, receive solid feedback, and iterate on those prototypes at least once. Your team will be ready to turn those low-resolution prototypes into real prototypes in the field.

Any planning or follow-up time we agree on - $90 per hour

Travel expenses may be required if you’re more than an hour's drive from Granville, OH.

Advanced Project Services

I’ll be happy to respond to your request for proposal after we discuss your needs. Deeper dives into design processes are very rewarding. We can break up a deeper exploration into several return visits to maintain momentum and allow your team to develop their own ideas between our sessions.