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Figure 8 Thinking helps leaders build high-performing cultures, design transformative experiences, and radically improve business results.

Engage with an insightful, empathetic leader in design thinking

Culture change and enterprise design are long-term processes. Natalie Nixon & Figure 8 Thinking serve as advisor, thought partner, facilitator and co-designer of a collaborative, inventive and customer-centric process that your team defines and owns. Outcomes include the discovery of new revenue streams, exciting strategic partnerships and energized teams.

Shift the paradigm of your business today

Your organizational culture consists of the stories that you tell - internally and externally - about people, process, and place. Figure 8 Thinking guides you through 4 phases to adapt and disrupt.

In this discovery phase we conduct qualitative research to audit and analyze the organizational culture and design of the company.

Through evaluation and co-creation we identify future scenarios that convert current challenges into transformative experiences.

Prioritize, do, and learn in short, iterative stages. Achieve smart and sustainable growth by scaling methodically. Success is contagious!

From success comes growth. Iterating on early tactics, you have a roadmap for success that evolves to help you reach your ultimate goals.

Train your business to gain a high CQ, or Creativity Quotient

Most companies should ask themselves the following questions:

What business are we REALLY in?
What do our customers ACTUALLY need?
What’s our purpose and how will we fit into the future of work?

They rarely pause to ask these questions because of legacy culture, silos, and laggard technology.

In the 4th Industrial Revolution, cloud technology, automation and AI are ubiquitous. This means organizations need to increase their CQ to optimize technology, productivity and meaningful human experience.

A high Creativity Quotient (CQ) has 3 parts:

1) Inventive thinking
2) Collaborative organizational culture
3) Customer-obsessed products & services

Creativity has a Business ROI

Novel business models, strategic partnerships & revenue streams.

Improved efficiencies & lower costs.

Human-centered products & services; increase in brand loyalty, value and sales.

What’s our purpose? We churned the past few years and have gotten stale.
What’s the business we should be in? How do we reinvent ourselves?
How can we do a better job of anticipating our clients’ needs?
What’s the future of work look like for my business or team?

At least 3 possible future scenarios to pursue, grounded in a strategic roadmap, to rekindle your business model and your team.

"Thank you so much for the interactive sessions and all of the preceding research and collaborative work you accomplished with our teams. I’ve already heard great feedback from the team and the time was well spent. Once again, thank you for helping Citrix and our employees be everything they can be."

"Figure 8 Thinking is a stellar team who brought commitment, compassion, and courage to our partnership. Their landscape analysis on the wealth disparity in the United States was superb. Figure 8 Thinking brought excellent qualitative research, scenario planning and analysis to the project and exceeded our expectations with suggested experiments to test their recommendations."

"Natalie’s hands-on, design thinking workshop with our team led to key insights that we will plan to incorporate in our program design in the future."

"Natalie worked closely with us to pilot design thinking training for our lawyers. The lawyers were out of their comfort zone and Natalie helped them overcome their natural skepticism and coached our teams through the growth process. The result was 4 inspiring ideas that are in various phases of implementation at our firm and we could not be more pleased."

"Natalie brought a level of energy, engagement and broad thinking to the PTM board retreat. Her capacity to inspire people to embrace their inner wonder and to push to new approaches and ways of thinking was just what our board needed. As we get comfortable with new levels of uncertainty post-COVID, our job is to also break perceptions of how we operated pre-pandemic while aligning with mission, and exploring new experiences for our visitors and staff. With Natalie’s guidance we have identified ways to be a children’s museum that is flexible and can evolve through both wonder and rigor."

"Natalie’s workshop gave our team an energetic and creative boost as we navigate these messy moments in time. Ninety minutes flew by! People were deeply engaged, curious and imaginative. It accomplished our near term goal and sets us up perfectly for reimagining possible futures. Department leads are already asking for more as they evaluate their specific plans and ensure that we remain a “Future Ready” company."

"As a new organization, Natalie has helped our board and staff forge a sense of togetherness and shared identity. She has expertly facilitated conversations with thought-provoking questions and ideas, and she has helped us craft a game plan and timeline for our priorities over the coming year."

"Natalie is a superb facilitator! She is a great listener and helps your group to land on new insights at the end of a workshop."

"Natalie is brilliant, confident, creative and empathic- a combination of traits that allowed those of us who were unsure of how to navigate our project to relax, and feel excited about the process. Natalie inspires, motivates, encourages, and holds people accountable. I would never hesitate to engage with her again."

"Natalie offered an analytical perspective, grounded in qualitative research, that facilitated targeted market positioning for Columbia University;s Center for the Future of Work. Further, her interdisciplinary thought leadership, creative analysis, and strategic foresight introduced new industry partnerships and collaboration opportunities. We look forward to future engagements."

With VaynerMedia, Natalie was faced with a tough task: to come into a fast-moving communications agency and inspire department leads across Strategy and Creative. She not only inspired but provoked a new way of thinking with her insightful WonderRigor framework that our teams will use as part of their tool box going forward. Her ability to quickly understand our organization ensured the session was relevant and relentlessly practical; we’re excited to keep our relationship with Natalie very much alive for future opportunities to collaborate.

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Advisory

Engage with an insightful, empathetic leader in design thinking

Shift the paradigm of your business today

Your organizational culture consists of the stories that you tell - internally and externally - about people, process, and place. Figure 8 Thinking guides you through 4 phases to adapt and disrupt.

Phase 1:

Phase 2:

Phase 3:

Phase 4:

Train your business to gain a high CQ, or Creativity Quotient

Creativity has a Business ROI

Inventive Thinking

Collaborative Organizational Culture

Customer Obsessed

Questions Answered

Key Outcomes

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