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

WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

Redefining fast, accurate drug detection

How the Opioid Detection Challenge used open innovation to advance new hardware solutions.

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Putting CTE at the center of transformational learning experiences

Students bring space missions to life with CTE Mission: CubeSat.

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Designing for speed and urgency

How the KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge used open innovation to address a crisis.

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

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

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Accelerating innovation in diagnostic testing

As tick-borne diseases spread to new geographic areas, the need for better diagnostic testing will only become more urgent.

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Using open innovation to source unexpected solutions

How MagQuest embraced the benefits of prize competitions to meet a mission-critical challenge.

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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.

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Thought Leadership

Lab Report

News, analysis, and timely truth-telling.

Making meaningful connections

Susan McPherson joined the Luminary Labs team to share tips for generous and authentic networking.

Looking back at the future

One year later: Revisiting 10 fundamental shifts accelerated by COVID-19 and offering an updated look at what might come next.

Using open innovation to address a crisis

What leaders can learn from more than 300 open innovation initiatives launched in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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