Designed for executives that need to unlock
complex challenges in a deliberate way.
If you’ve grown frustrated by traditional workshops that use the same old, familiar approaches and produce the same old ideas, the Deliberate approach is for you.
Our Deliberate Way of problem solving is super interactive, smartly designed AND generates hundreds of non-obvious ideas and actionable solutions that are ready for your team to execute. We do it by combining exceptional facilitation together with cutting-edge design thinking and behavioral science techniques.
At the heart of our workshop is the notion that “Somewhere, Someone Has Solved Your Problem Before”. Our approach borrows inspiration from analogous industries, products and people. By applying the wisdom from those metaphors to your challenge, we break your traditional patterns of thinking, help you escape old ideas, and produce novel solutions.
Define and validate the “right” problem that captures the underlying tension or pain point(s) of your specific challenge.
Generate a wide array of useful metaphors, crowdsourced from both our Deliberate Innovator network and your participants
Conduct research to translate the metaphors into actionable use cases and creative prompts.
Apply the use cases and creative prompts to your specific challenge in order to accelerate problem solving and generate non-obvious solutions.
We listen to your wishes and needs so we can customized the workshop for your team. The one thing that we keep consistent across every engagement is that we bring deep experience, energy and enthusiasm to inspire you.
We integrate design thinking, behavioral science and game mechanics into your event to make it inspiring, purposeful and productive.
We bring together external subject matter experts and creative problem solvers to participate in your event and help you to think differently.
We believe that your event experience should be fun! We create an inspiring and positive atmosphere that will energize your team and your participants. Attitude determines outcomes!
We specialize in working with highly regulated organizations that have a need to THINK creatively and ACT decisively . Our clients span more than a dozen regulated industries.
Our Five Step Approach is designed to systematically guide your team from problem to executable solutions
The first part of the engagement is to strategically map your workshop challenge so that you can focus on the “right” question to solve in the workshop.
We further validate the challenge with internal and external stakeholders to ensure we are solving for the “right” problem
We focus on event strategy, design and developing content that increases your chances of producing winning solutions.
The design will signal to your participants that this isn’t “business as usual”
We engage a curated group of creative thinkers and problem solvers – from our Deliberate Innovator Network and your team – to spark a set of metaphors (i.e. use cases) to help you generate those non-obvious ideas in the workshop
We design and facilitate a live series of sessions that push your team to think differently and develop novel concepts
Our methods encourage candid discussions, creative ideation and ultimately helps to spark insights that you would never have realized when following the traditional approach.
Our team captures, analyzes and reports every idea, insight and action step.
And we provide an actionable report and database of ideas that enables ongoing development.
Most importantly, our team sticks around. We are there to help, coach, advise and help you execute.
I know what it’s like to spends hours in poorly designed offsites, workshops and events. They are mentally exhausting and in the end you have little to show for the time commitment and effort.
My promise to you is that you will be exhilarated by the Deliberate Experience and walk away with tangible outputs and business value. Here’s why:
Let’s geek out over a challenge or opportunity you might be facing. Just one practitioner talking to another practitioner. At the very least you walk away with things you shouldn’t do :- )
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