We are a strategy and innovation consultancy. Thorny problems are our strong suit.

WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

Improving kidney care and reducing risk during COVID-19

The $300,000 KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge seeks to identify replicable solutions and share them across healthcare communities.

Learn about the challenge

Accelerating artificial kidney development

KidneyX Artificial Kidney Prize offers $10 million to advance artificial kidney development toward human clinical trials.

Learn about the challenge

Turning promising ideas into detailed designs

MagQuest, the $2.1 million competition from the National-Geospatial Intelligence Agency, awarded $900,000 to Phase 3 winners.

Meet the winners

Breaking down barriers to apprenticeships

The U.S. Department of Education launched the Rethink Adult Ed Challenge, a $750,000 competition to advance pre-apprenticeships.

Learn about the challenge

Empowering patients and physicians to make informed decisions

How we helped a global pharmaceutical company narrow in on the problem to solve, refine its hypothesis, and rapidly prototype potential solutions.

Read the case study

Thought Leadership

Lab Report

News, analysis, and timely truth-telling.

Helping 21st-century learners gain 21st-century skills

Ed Prizes names finalists in three challenges that increase access to career and technical education.

Education and future-of-work policy: 2021 reading list

From equitable recovery and education financing to green jobs and work-based learning.

Science and technology policy: 2020 reading list

A curated selection of recommendations from scientists, technologists, and advocates.

Select Clients

We serve as thought partners to leaders tasked with going beyond business as usual. When it’s time to execute, we help make it real.

Corporate

  • Celgene
  • Janssen
  • Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth
  • Pfizer
  • Sanofi

Nonprofit

  • Grand Victoria Foundation
  • Heritage Provider Network
  • Humanity United
  • Joyce Foundation
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • TEDMED

Government

  • NASA
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Food & Drug Administration