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

WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

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

Identifying and advancing solutions to the world's thorniest problems

Luminary Labs was awarded a NASA open innovation services contract — for the second time.

Read the announcement

Advancing rural technology education

The Rural Tech Project invites high schools to propose technology education programs that use competency-based distance learning.

Learn about the challenge

Bringing space missions to students

CTE Mission: CubeSat invites high schools to design and build small satellite prototypes.

Learn about the challenge

Thought Leadership

Lab Report

News, analysis, and timely truth-telling.

The agile 2021 business planner

A reading list for future-ready executives.

Meet your post-pandemic customers

Motivations and behaviors are changing. It’s time to rethink what you sell and how you sell it.

Why hardware is hard

Every inventor wants to bring the next iPhone to market, but there are many barriers. We need to rethink how we develop new physical products.

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