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Language. Emotions. Transformation.

Our Offering

We identify and develop the vision, frameworks, stories, and messaging to articulate your value and help you thrive in the life-centered economy.

Narrative

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We curate, design, and produce events and experiences that combine provocative ideas with innovative storytelling and immersive formats.

Experience

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We create exceptional thought leadership in the form of publications, live/recorded media, and entire learning programs and trainings.

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Our Work

We created an experiential learning program for the top management team at Volkswagen Group, drawing on immersive theater, dance, and live music to explore emotion, curation, and imagination as essential aspects of leadership.

Producing Riveting Experiential Learning for Top Management

We created a comprehensive and in-depth story lab for The Google School for Leaders to sharpen their positioning and help engage internal audiences.

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Telling Better Stories Inside a Competitive Culture

We helped SAP plan, launch, and run its first global “Think and Do Tank,” the Intelligent Enterprise Institute, to open new fields of innovation and collaboration.

Creating a Customer-Facing Thought Leadership Institute

We partnered with Deloitte Consulting in Germany from first idea to final execution to conceptualize, design, plan, and produce an all-hands, two-day festival experience for 4,000 employees in Berlin.

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Creating a Two-Day Festival Experience for 4,000 Employees

We worked with the insurance group Ageas to bring beautiful practices and concepts to their culture and help the HR team to conceive the role of a Beautiful Business Manager in their organization.

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Enabling an Organizational Beautiful Business Transformation

We collaborated with Hotwire to help marketers adopt a value-driven “beyond efficiency mindset” for AI by creating a thought leadership report, launching it with a campaign across six markets, and activating it at events like the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Exploring AI Beyond Efficiency Through a Global Report and Activation

We designed and led Otto Group’s Top Executive Program for five years, guiding emerging top managers through a six-month journey to explore future business challenges and present their purpose in a TED-style talk to all employees.

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Designing an Executive Learning Program for a Global Retailer

We helped T-Systems launch and run X-Creation, a cross-industry community and co-creation service for accelerating sustainable innovations, with a long-term collaboration that encompassed visioning, brand identity, experience design, and event production.

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Establishing a Community and Co-Creation Service for Sustainable Innovation

We created an original co-branded podcast series based on voice notes from select HoBB community members to shine a light on different aspects of relationship design and create thought leadership around the methodology of Salesforce’s global design team.

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Producing an Innovative Podcast Series on Relationship Design

We curated a brain trust with members of our community and facilitated a learning journey for forward31, Porsche’s company-building arm, to identify new venture building opportunities related to the sustainable use of ocean resources.

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Fueling Venture Building Activities for the Blue Economy

For the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, we partnered with BCG’s global events team to curate, design, and produce a one-of-a-kind dinner experience for 200 global CEOs, using creativity and AI to let them experience their collective visions of the future.

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Turning CEOs’ Visions of the Future into an Immersive Dinner Experience

We partnered with NHSA to engage a new generation of socially aware, digitally savvy parents by designing events, creating thought leadership, and serving as their communication bureau.

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Revitalizing an Early Childhood Education Nonprofit

We partnered with Porsche's marketing and innovation teams to create two seasons of a co-branded podcast featuring experts from our community to enhance the brand's Next Visions thought-leadership platform.

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Producing an Inspirational Podcast Series for a Luxury Brand

We partnered with energy group Galp to design, co-host, and produce two editions of the Future of Learning Summit, a corporate learning conference in Portugal focused on redefining success and reframing leadership as transformative practices.

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Exploring the Future of Corporate Learning & Development

We helped the new CEO of this coaching consultancy redefine the company’s identity around the theme of curiosity and create a TED-style talk to convey it to the world.

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Coaching an Incoming CEO on Communicating a New Vision

We curated, designed, and presented a full-day inspiration program for Santander Group’s marketing executive summit, focusing on new perspectives in AI and human psychology.

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Inspiring Marketing Executives with Psychology and AI Insights

We partnered with Google’s L&amp;D team in the U.S. to create two major reports for the company’s senior leadership: Implications of the Pandemic on Leadership and Management, Organizational Design, and Upskilling as well as Talent, Tech, and Trust in the Wake of the U.S. Presidential Election.

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Researching and Interpreting Current Affairs

We delivered detailed monthly briefings for BCG’s global content team, providing insights and activation ideas on emerging trends, next-frontier conversations, and new voices.

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Helping a Global Content Team to Keep Their Fingers on the Pulse

We brought a custom-tailored immersive and entertaining program to LinkedIn’s annual Talent Connect summit to explore a future workplace that prioritizes wellbeing.

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Creating 60 Minutes of Beautiful Business in L.A.

We designed and curated Porsche’s top management conference in Lisbon, featuring city innovation tours and on-stage programming.

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Bringing a Top Management Conference to Life in Lisbon

We helped the German government and the Michael Otto Foundation to develop the narrative and concept for the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, a new global event platform to align policymakers and business leaders on sustainability.

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Designing the Concept for a Global Sustainability Event Platform

We curated, designed, and produced two events to engage Vattenfall’s sales team with the company’s decarbonization strategy and inspire innovative solutions for new offerings and partnerships.

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Driving Engagement and Innovation around Decarbonization

At our Between The Two of Us festival, we interviewed attendees on building design-driven cultures and created a film documentary to inspire Audi’s internal strategy program.

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Researching the Tenets of a Design-Driven Culture

We created and launched an eight-week online conference on ecological intelligence and inclusive technology with the aim of building a community to support regenerative business.

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Producing “The New Climate,” an Eight-Week Online Conference

We developed an innovative, half-year-long, co-branded hybrid event format and community building program to engage tech-savvy influencers and experts on how to use Web3 for doing business more beautifully and raising our partner’s profile in this space.

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Pioneering an Asynchronous Conference Format on Web3

We supported this publicly listed agency group through a two-year post-merger transition by leading a process to craft a new vision and narrative at the group level, and bringing it to life via employee boot camps and customer-facing pop-up events.

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Defining and Building a Post-Merger Company Culture

After a boutique design studio was acquired by PwC, we helped them rework their offering through the lens of sustainable innovation, launch a thought leadership content platform, and activate it with reports and points-of-view from team members.

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Igniting a Service Business Post-Merger Through Thought Leadership

We supported boutique consultancy diffferent through a major organizational reset, assisting their leadership in refining and articulating the company’s vision, translating it into new values and organizational design, and activating the change through a transformative event.

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Pioneering a Fluid Organization from Vision to Implementation

Leveraging the expertise of select members of our community, we orchestrated a multi-month visioning and transformation process for the leadership team of a premier marketing agency in Germany.

Transforming an Agency Through a Narrative-Driven Strategy Process

We activated Porsche’s brand purpose “Driven by Dreams” by curating an immersive pop-up VIP dinner at an abandoned bank building that invited 200 guests to articulate and celebrate their life dreams.

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Bringing a Brand Purpose Meaningfully to Life

In partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation and the Jameel Arts Centre, we hosted an experiential “listening dinner” to help global leaders explore and systematize hope as a vital resource.

Empowering Leaders in Dubai to Inspire Hope in Their Communities

We worked with former German national football player Philipp Lahm and team to align his entrepreneurial activities under the lens of impact investing and analyze business development opportunities.

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Envisioning New Opportunities for Impact Investing

We worked with a German nonprofit to launch a new award for sustainable marketing, producing the first edition of the award as a virtual show at the height of the Covid pandemic.

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Orchestrating the Launch of a Sustainability Award for Marketers

We created a two-day summit in Munich for 200 partners of Deloitte Consulting in Germany, replete with original programming and formats such as an ideas marketplace and a collaborative performance.

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Designing and Producing a Two-Day Partner Summit

We produced a video series for a top consultancy’s thought-leadership institute, exploring the intersection of business and beauty with C-suite executives, architects, astrobiologists, and other experts.

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Producing a Video Series on Business and Beauty

We designed and facilitated a visioning workshop at the IAA Mobility trade show for Porsche to challenge their innovation roadmap through the lens of scenarios such as “Feminist Porsche” and “Luxury in a divided world.”

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Speeding Into the Future with a Custom Innovation Workshop

We partnered with Google’s global People Operations team to craft a narrative and messaging framework, shifting the focus of performance evaluation from individual achievement to collaborative genius.

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Transforming the Company-wide Narrative of Performance Evaluation

We developed and presented a half-day program for Microsoft’s annual managers’ summit that explored the power of emotional diversity through a keynote talk and live music.

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Producing a Creative Program for a Tech Leader’s Annual Summit

We partnered with E.ON’s chief sustainability and innovation officer to curate and run an offsite event on the life-centered economy and discuss its transformative potential for the energy sector with strategy leaders of the company.

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Unlocking the Potential of the Life-Centered Economy

Embedded in the annual process of promoting senior leaders to partners at one of Germany’s top consultancies, we coached the candidates and sharpened their leadership purpose and presentation skills.

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Training Leaders at a Pivotal Career Point

We provided a series of bespoke “vision sprints” for this boutique innovation firm, supporting a major renovation of the company’s mission and work towards the circular economy.

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Reconfiguring an Innovation Consultancy’s DNA

We helped a boutique digital product company redefine their vision, align their leadership, and conceptualize a new offering and go-to-market strategy.

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Repositioning an Agency Around Conscious Digital Products

We helped a team of serial entrepreneurs create and launch a new consulting brand to put their venture-building expertise into the service of long-term sustainable growth.

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Launching a Consulting Brand for Sustainable Growth

We partnered with BCG’s thought leadership institute to launch Beautiful Business Trips, a series of online learning journeys open to the public, on topics such as The New Politics of Business, discussing responsible leadership in times of growing conflict.

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Offering Thought Leadership and Learning on Current Affairs

We helped gaming company ustwo transform their Playthinking methodology into a thought leadership platform, working with members of our community on an article series to showcase how game mechanics and gamification can enhance business and life.

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Turning a Design Methodology into a Thought Leadership Platform

We curated and facilitated a two-day offsite for the partners and management team of Kienbaum, using our 15 Toasts dinner format to foster trust and running sessions on the life-centered economy’s impact on HR and recruiting.

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Orchestrating a Leadership Summit for Leadership Experts

We served as a sounding board for EY’s global events team and their agency C2 to take the vision, narrative, and design principles of EY’s annual summit, Innovation Realized, to the next level.

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Acting as a Sounding Board for Conference Organizers

We created a Future of Experience report for Audi’s brand marketing team, exploring in detail four key emerging trends for events: Make Distance Beautiful, Conscious Hedonism, Digital Experience Playgrounds, and Local Universes.

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Analyzing a New Era of Events During the Pandemic

We supported a group of executives from the technology sector to help them define the vision, develop the go-to-market messaging, design the brand identity, and build a website for the launch of their new AI think tank.

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Helping with the Launch of an Independent Think Tank

We researched, authored, and activated a bespoke report for Deutsche Telekom that explored the current state of AI, what it implied for this industry, and competitive advantages for European companies.

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Writing an In-Depth Report on Artificial Intelligence

We created and marketed a co-branded report for this global marketing firm to explore how brands can evolve their brand narrative in the age of generative AI, introducing an original matrix with different archetypes and their corresponding challenges and opportunities.

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Exploring Brand Narratives in the Age of Generative AI

We helped curate and run sessions at the NEXT, the annual conference of Accenture Song in Hamburg attended by 600 professionals from the corporate world and creative industry.

Bringing Thought Leadership to the NEXT Conference

We partnered with diconium to create a dinner experience in Lisbon on digital flourishing, inviting forward-thinking leaders and changemakers to take part in a composition of multi-sensory moments, with no alcohol and no phones allowed.

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Creating a Digital Flourishing Dinner on the Eve of Web Summit

We partnered with BCG to curate and co-host two thought leadership dinners at the annual TED Conference in Vancouver, enhancing BCG’s sponsorship with TED.

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Hosting Memorable Dinners at TED Vancouver

Through a co-creative process that included the curation and hosting of an all-hands virtual forum and a top management workshop, we developed a framework and evaluation tool to help Westernacher measure their progress towards their Mission 2030.

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Empowering a Global IT Consultancy to Track Progress on Their Mission

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For CEOs, emerging leaders, and rising executives who want to publish their own book we offer an end-to-end ghostwriting service.

Ghost Lab

We offer a fast-moving, compact service to develop the brand identity, positioning, and design of your experience or consultancy/agency offering.

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