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"OPENHOUSE's prototyping process allowed us to fail fast, learn quickly, and ultimately create a solution that our community truly owns."

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No two changemakers are alike, so why should our support be? We mold our services to fit your unique journey, from short bursts of innovation to long-term collaboration. Your goals and resources shape our work together.
Coaching

We empower you with the tools and knowledge to lead your own innovation journey. In this approach, we focus on: upskilling, frameworks and supported autonomy.Offering guidance while you drive the process, ensuring you're well-equipped but never alone

Workshops

We blend coaching with light-touch consulting in collaborative, interactive sessions. This approach features: tackling challenges together, combining our collective insights. Engaging in real-time problem-solving and idea generation and comprehensive debriefs with clear next steps after each session.

Consulting & Innovation Studio

For a more comprehensive partnership, we take a hands-on role in executing key aspects of your project. This includes: deep dive execution, conducting thorough research, creating strategic artifacts, and developing tailored strategies and product and service deliverables.

Workshops

how we work
There's a few core principles that define us as a team and are absolute key to our success
OUR CLIENTS
We work with those who are bold enough to imagine a new way of doing things.

We work with those who are bold enough to imagine a new way of doing things.

Startups | Business Strategy and Growth

Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas is more than just a planning tool - it's a way to visualize, challenge, and strengthen your business concept. Whether you're just starting out or looking to pivot an existing business, this workshop will equip you with a powerful framework to think critically about your venture.

* Break down your business idea into nine crucial elements
* Identify and articulate your unique value proposition
* Uncover potential revenue streams you might have overlooked
* Strategically allocate your limited resources for maximum impact
* Adapt your model to overcome common barriers

Ecosystems Mapping

Many entrepreneurs struggle to see beyond their immediate market, missing out on valuable opportunities for growth and collaboration. This workshop addresses the challenge of limited perspective, helping you uncover hidden potential within your business ecosystem. Whether you're overlooking key customer segments, missing out on strategic partnerships, or failing to adapt your business model to changing market dynamics.

Together, we will:
*Identify untapped customer segments and potential partners
*Explore innovative business model patterns for collaboration
*Develop strategies to grow with and through ecosystem partners

Design Thinking | Embrace Your Inner Designer

Equity, Inclusion, & Design Thinking.

How to use a human-centered design framework to pilot more inclusive, equitable teams and work environments for all people

Cultural Competency as a Tool For Deeper and Practical Empathy

Several layers of cultural experiences shape our identities and the identities of the people around us. Some you may be privy to, most you will only perceive on the surface without taking a closer look. Sensing these layers of culture is part of radical inclusion, acceptance, and belonging that intersects across various experiences—additionally, these layers of culture call for us to not be just culturally competent but cross-culturally competent.

Workshop focuses  
Understand the "iceberg" to use the nature of culture
Learn the foundation of Cross-Cultural Competency
Build the various icebergs within the Community (ethnicity, race, privilege, power, lgbtq+, people with disabilities, generational, familial, etc.), including building out your organization’s cultural iceberg.

Unlearning to Learn & Challenging Assumptions: Introduction to Liberatory Design Framework: Notice & Reflect

The Liberatory Design Framework is used in this workshop to encourage people to learn more about their own identities. We show you how to engage in a pattern of self and social-emotional awareness before entering any contest or practicing empathy.

Transform Your Team

Using Design Justice in Project Management

Our desire to be thoughtful and inclusive leaders in projects can be compromised by project scopes, budgets, lack of support or decision-making power and our own hidden biases.

Drawing on justice principles and understanding how characteristics of white supremacy culture affect our projects helps organizations follow through on the promise of inclusion.  We offer a learning experience that helps organizations embody the values, tools, and practices of design justice in their everyday projects. On a practical level this means: tackling internal processes and operations, ie: project management, communications during projects, culture during projects, and team rituals.

The Foundations of Inclusive Consumer Research

How does your organization center equity in its research? Whether you lead marketing, product development, business development,, or HR. More inclusive research helps the organization give power to stakeholders who have been left out in the past and build more real relationships with them.

We focus on:
What it means to Build T shaped Teams
Leave traditional segmentation behind
Tackling Process biases and more.

Performance, Progress, and Metrics: Optimism and Humility while solving big world problems

We use a pathway of change to help you develop meaningful metrics for your business and understand your sphere of influence.

Sprints

Testimonials
Whether you are a company of one or a large team.
Sliding scale
Our sprints allow teams to combine the collaborative, fast-paced nature of Design Sprints with the promise of inclusion in both the product and the process.

We've introduced sliding scale rates, designed to democratize access to our transformative business design and strategy services. How values aligned you are with OPENHOUSE creates the potential for a collaboration that works within your budget. 

OPENHOUSE doesn't just consult – they catalyze. They've helped us transform our business into a powerful force for change in our industry and beyond.
Amira
Fashion For Us

Innovative Business Model Workshop

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CEO at ProNature

Design Justice Training for Teams

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Providing training and resources to empower your teams to make decisions through the lens of design justice, ensuring it's a lived practice within your organization.

Collective Wisdom Strategy Sessions.

Harness the power of many in our group strategy sessions, where diverse thoughts converge to propel innovation. It’s a melting pot of ideas where the best strategies are forged in the collective crucible of experience.

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