Who We Are
Making. Ideas. Visible.
We thrive on helping our clients create imaginative and resilient solutions that tackle the big challenges we are facing in this time of unprecedented uncertainty by designing and facilitating innovation in your team with visual thinking and graphic facilitation.
We are inspired by people like you. Innovative thinkers, thoughtful visionary leaders, creators and changemakers. Because you know that solutions must come from ways of thinking and being that are expansive, holistic and include entirely new approaches and you’re excited by that challenge and so are we.
Our practitioners, led by founder Julie Stuart, are experts in designing and facilitating transformative experiences that navigate emergence, envision group genius, and stimulate visionary innovation in your team.
We are:
FACILITATORS
who draw from disciplines and practices that bring a more expansive set of perspectives and processes into the work than most other workshop leaders can, incorporating values of diversity and inclusion to guide you to expand your imagination by creating containers for real conversations that are needed now.
STRATEGISTS
who help you outline where you want to go – mapping out possible scenarios and charting the steps forward, taking all possible risks and opportunities into account.
VISIONARIES
WITNESSES
SYSTEM THINKERS
PROVOCATEURS
Our Skill Sets
include creative process practices and tools designed
for collaboration and innovation such as:
- graphic facilitation
- embodiment practices such as 4D mapping from Social Presencing Theater
- Art of Hosting dialogic practices such as World Cafe and Open Space Technology
- Emergent design workshops aligned with the MG Taylor methodology
You need transformation, because wicked problems require brilliant solutions.
There is no time like now.
About Julie Stuart
Julie has two decades of experience working with teams, businesses and organizations to create and imagine new strategies. She’s a continuous learner, acquiring tools, methodologies and processes that she curates into customized design workshops for her clients so they can do their best sensing and thinking. Her north star is a holistic, equitable, just and courageous world.
With an undergrad in political science and a masters in fine art, Julie has uniquely charted an innovative path for herself as a facilitator and designer of transformative experiences that catalyze change at the organizational and individual level. She thrives in navigating the terrain of emergence, holding open the space of the unknown for possibility to arise from collective genius and for real substantial change to happen.
When she’s not with her clients, Julie DJ’s and dances, paints large-scale, gets on a sailboat as often as possible, and plots her next career where her uniform is a bikini and sarong.
Our Team
We have a vast network of collaborators and experts we call on as we design specific projects for our clients. These two team members are frequent contributors to our work.
Play Steinberg
Bio
As a designated listener, Emily Jane is attuned to both the (un)seen and (un)spoken worlds. In her practice as a graphic recorder, the invisible synthesis of what she sees and hears (re)emerges visibly on the walls, supporting clients in real time.
Emily has a background in technical and creative writing, filmmaking, event and nonprofit management, sign languages, and Buddhism. She is also a skilled group facilitator and knowledge worker. Together, these disciplines and experiences inform her ability to surface and visualize interconnected ideas and concepts across multiple layers of meaning, space and time.
Emily is passionate about transformation, alignment, and possibility, and is constantly pushing the boundaries of these potentialities both in herself and those she serves. She serves on the board of Ordinary Dharma and lives in Austin, TX with her wife Meredith and cat Zuki.
Krista dela Rosa
Bio
As Virtual Assistant, Krista performs the important behind-the-scenes tasks that ensure every event is a success.
Krista’s work background is diverse, covering everything from closed captioning editor to website manager to leadership coordinator to business partner.
She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada with her husband and two boys.