select partners
we partner with brands
that value creativity,
collaboration and impact.
Auburn University
Curious curated an Innovation Tour with prominent Silicon Valley leaders to spark debate and generate fresh ideas about how to truly equip students for the future ahead of us.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
With the Global Center for Gender Equality, Curious conducted research to identify an archetype asking for and most ready to adopt a radically new approach to philanthropy.
Caring for Colorado
In partnership with local Design Fellows, Curious went deep in-community to design a game-changing approach to reproductive health needs of Colorado-based Latinas.
Discovery Channel
Curious designed and led multi-day creative sessions with leadership to land and activate a new, bold brand positioning that enabled the network to compete more effectively.
Global Citizen Year
Curious designed and led discussions to forge connection, trust and resilience among GCY Fellows as they launched into a year of working, living and leading abroad.
Hewlett Foundation
Partnering with IDEO.org, Curious conceived and co-led design sprints in Ethiopia and Rwanda to train reproductive justice leaders in human centered design.
IDEO.org
For several years, Curious led conversations that fostered connection and trust among cohorts of IDEO.org Fellows. We also coached the founding partners at critical moments of their leadership, guiding them forward with courage and clarity.
Marin Community Foundation
Curious led an extensive human centered design effort that resulted in a transformative program serving Moms striving for self-sufficiency in the county.
Maverick Collective
Curious engaged the founding Maverick Collective philanthropists to surface insights for how the organization could be more effective and rewarding.
Method Home
During Method’s earliest days, Curious generated consumer insights that directly informed product development, brand positioning and communication.
OLLY
Curious surfaced insights and led brand workshops with OLLY leadership that inspired a stronger OLLY brand positioning and new product opportunities.
Patagonia
Curious coached creative design leadership as the company doubled down on its commitment to make Earth its “only shareholder.”
PSI
Curious upskilled the PSI/Tanzania country team in human centered design and sparked a global initiative by PSI to upskill every office worldwide in participatory methodologies.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies, Curious designed a new form of research, called Power Games to explore the dynamics of inertia and activation for social causes.
Science Channel
Curious designed and led the leadership team through a multi-day brand workshop to define a compelling vision for Science Channel 2.0.
Stand (for Children)
Curious designed an extensive engagement with staff and leadership to articulate a vision for transforming public education that was as compelling to teachers as it was to families.
Stanford Global Center for Gender Equality
Curious engaged as brand strategy, coaching and facilitation partners to GCfGE as they spun out of Stanford University and defined themselves as an autonomous organization.
Target
Curious facilitated a strategic process with Target’s NatPak, a group of natural brands, to land a value proposition of the collective that was bigger than any individual brand.
True Botanicals
Tapping into its roots as an OG leader in plant-based, non-toxic skin care, Curious partnered with the True Botanicals CEO to dramatically re-vision the future of the iconic brand.
U.S. Olympic Committee
Curious designed and led USOC leadership through a multi-day brand vision and strategy session to define and claim a bold, exciting new direction for the organization.
