Navigate Technology with Wisdom

There are several ways to work together helping mindful leaders and teams in private and public sectors to navigate overwhelming tech hype by implementing grounded, place-based and outcome-centered strategies that deliver greater value across social, economic, and environmental goals.

The Challenge: You're pressured to "digitally transform," but more than 80% of tech-centered implementations fail to serve your community's actual needs, go unused, drain your budget — and often cause knowable harms you didn't anticipate. Or, you're doing amazing community-centric work but get derailed due to underestimating the significance of strategy and framing in civic tech communications and engagement.

Separating realities into digital and physical, online and offline, contributes to a dysfunctional world, despite the marketing claims of “smart”, “social”, and "intelligent" technologies.

Every digital product has embodied place-based factors and effects.

Are you tapping into the real-life experiences of those involved in creating, supporting, and using your offerings? Are you beginning with shared purpose and clear outcomes?

Embrace a holistic approach to interconnected online and offline experiences. Engage fully with the communities and environments where we live, work, and play.

There are various modes of collaboration to explore together:

Product Leadership (Fractional/interim, Selective partnerships)
Expert guidance for ethical digital placemaking. Mindfully adopt Lean Impact Startup practices to turn around stuck efforts, and grow sustainably.
Talks & Training
Create insightful public and private talks, skill workshops on digital placemaking practices, with embodied, mindful leadership and compassion.
Socially Engaged Creative Strategic Community Advocacy
Engagement & media campaigns with stakeholders, local organizations, and residents on transformative participatory projects that increase thriving, inclusive, sustainable urban life. Including: communications and narrative framing, digital media strategy, film & video direction.
Strategic Advisory or Board Counsel Retainer
Wise advice and support over regular 1-on-1 sessions. Monthly 24/7 private chat access about all things digital placemaking, products, strategy, and mindful leadership.

Let’s work together to build a wiser future

Let’s create digital placemaking programs that focus on bringing people together, cultural diversity, and ecological balance.

Digital placemaking is the strategic integration of technology to support, enhance, or accelerate placemaking practices. It’s an integrated offline+online approach strengthening pluralistic community connections through a collaborative process that shapes public spaces to benefit everyone, mindful of the ecologies, cultures, and sustainable economics that define and support its endless evolution.

It all begins with a brief inquiry conversation, about your experiences so far, challenges, capacities, and the transformations you're seeking...

Inquire about working together