Launch: What is this place?

I believe that enabling human potential and creating a sustainable planet are two of the most important and difficult tasks facing humanity.  In fact, they are what we call wicked problems - problems that are nigh unsolvable.

My path up to this point has been devoted to supporting corporations with digital innovation, the social use of technology and crossing the gap from insight to innovation through facilitated play, collaborative design and participatory research.  I've been tasked to build better websites, online empires, brand strategies, identities, marketing campaigns and more. Always with the eye to impact beliefs or behaviors.

I have come to re-frame many of my skills, interests and learnings into a framework that is becoming known in the Industry as "Serious Play".  Serious Play encapsulates design thinking, co-creation and social knowledge creation. It is about enabling more effective forms of problem solving and when combined with participatory design and research, I believe it can enable new insight and more effective forms of community and audience engagement.

Now I want to use these tools "for good," so to speak.

So welcome to my consulting home on the web. My new practice is devoted to supporting the organizations and individuals that are impacting and solving the wicked problems facing our world.  "But what services do you offer?", you ask.  More to come on that.  For now, I hope to assist with the creation of better digital experiences and the development of more effective engagement strategies that look from the outside of the organization inward.  The very way our audience and supporters see us.

Let's see if it's possible to follow our hearts and make a living, eh?