We Design Futures

Our work creates a better, environmentally conscious, socially responsible, economically sustainable future. We help clients embrace a desired future using research, forecasting tools, imagination, and good sense. Then we make it happen, using rich, immersive experiences to bring a sense of the possibilities to life.

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We Lead Programs

We work with leaders to clarify an organization’s most socially positive and future seeking goals, and design programs of action to meet them. We charter teams within your organization, empowering and equipping them to lead the work.

We Build Capacity

We transfer skills and capacities that sustain innovation inside your organization. This may include foresight tools, collaboration tools, communications tools, and expeditions that help you to learn from diverse sources, including your customers.

We Facilitate Group Communication

We use our tools to help multiple, local and distant participants convene and share their collective wisdom. Some are custom built; others are part of our existing tool kit, or are freely available. In each case, we design the best possible balance of technology, culture and place.

We Develop Leaders

Socially-minded organizations committed to innovation share certain organizational characteristics, and their leaders demonstrate particular competencies that enable innovation to flourish. Collective Invention designs leadership development programs around the habits of mind and organizational practices that reliably give rise to innovation.

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