A selection of our client work
Facilitating conversations to help align board members on future visions
Name development along with contributing creative strategic advice with the leadership team
Messaging and strategy for the first carbon negative consumer product
Brand and strategy for a new impact investment fund
Clarifying messaging to help fund 1000 sustainable landscapes
Brand and strategy to build a platform that creates a more ecological civilization
Providing branding and messaging to the organization’s multiple initiatives
Establishing QP as the leader in using data to create healthier people, cities, & planet
Facilitating ways to build a platform to scale 100 Sustainable Landscapes
Collaborated with Impossible Labs on messaging and strategy to build out the Carbon XPRIZE Product Showcase
Honing in messaging to raise awareness in the regenerative agriculture industry
Website and brand for a leading aggregator of resources devoted to DIY home makeover improvements for water and power conservation and efficiency
Branding a platform to raise awareness about hopeful climate change solutions
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Brand and strategy for a bold campaign to encourage California’s Governor Brown to take bold action on fossil fuel policy in his last year in office
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Brand and strategy for a climate consulting firm spearheading the new carbon removal industry
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We’ve hacked the Design Thinking process
Marc is an expert in Thinking Wrong which is useful at the start of the creative process. Sarah’s Prototype Thinking skills are great at the end when ideas need to be built. Our process is a great one-two punch in innovation.
Thinking Wrong
+ Coming up with fresh approaches to challenges
+ Breaking through roadblocks
+ Uncovering new ideas to explore
+ Using randomness to drive innovation
Prototype Thinking
+ Shorten the time to try new ideas
+ Find the moments that matter
+ Prototype at the speed of thought
+ Front-load risk
We also jam with these other methodologies
Design Thinking
+ Define the right problem to solve
+ Explore ideas tangibly
+ Iterate based on feedback
Lean Startup
+ Minimal Viable Product
+ Test early and often
+ Minimize waste and resources
Human-Centered Design
+ Focus on human needs
+ Empathy develops insights
+ Gain a “worm’s eye view”
Marc O’Brien has worked closely with John Bielenberg since 2009 developing and implementing exercises and approaches towards “thinking wrong” while working at Project M and Future.
Sarah Harrison mentored under Tom Chi and J Li of Prototyping Thinking Labs, working as a trainer and collaborator, helping to develop the prototype thinking collateral and methods, as well as training entrepreneurs and teams in rapid innovation and testing methods.