Foresight Studio

"Natalie is an engaging and insightful leader in the design thinking space. She curated a weeks-long idea sprint for a group of attorneys and non-attorneys representing a cross-section of our firm. Everyone involved was in complete agreement – both the process and its outcomes were transformative on an individual and institutional level. None of this would have been possible without Natalie’s stewardship.”

"Natalie's positive energy, expertise, and practiced facilitation helped us zero in on priority areas and build trust by having honest conversations about tough challenges we need to tackle..”

"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 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."

"The Arts and Business Council for Greater Philadelphia was honored to feature Natalie as faculty for our Creative Exchange course. Natalie’s online Zoom workshop was transformative for our cohort- engaging, well facilitated, and relevant. She brings a high-level of content expertise with credibility and an impactful teaching style for our professionals. Her session was a highlight of the program."

"Natalie is a wonderful scholar-practitioner; she is able to connect the dots between theory and practice. Her remarkable, diverse background allows her to be a unique contributor to the new global, interdisciplinary world that is rapidly emerging."

"The framework that Natalie and the design thinking process helped us create has now been embraced across our entire organization. By the end of the session ALL participants grew from it; indicating it was the best session in which they had participated in a very long time. Natalie elevated my team’s ability to understand and solve for growth in a more creative and innovative way. She astutely guided a cross-functional senior team to think about the inputs to a challenge in a more iterative manner – and to embrace the ‘process’ of discovering new opportunities & solving for effective solutions. It was the best investment made in pushing us forward so that we are collectively future-ready to deliver solutions grounded in creativity; ones that drive growth and add value in numerous ways."

"Natalie is consistently one of my graduate class’s most well-received guest lecturers. More a facilitated studio lab than a ‘lecture’, her time with our students pushes their thinking in ways that are both rigorous and practical. Her sessions serve as an effective bridge between modules."

"Natalie led a fantastic session with my consumer insights, sensory, and analytics teams! We focused on storytelling with data, using unique tools to simplify complex data for various audiences. In advance of the session, she took the time to build customized, relevant activities with me… and during the session she passionately brought to life new ways of thinking that could easily be applied. She was a pleasure to work with, AND I received a ton of great feedback from the team after the session. Success is when in the days immediately following, more than a few team members came to me excitedly to show new ways that they were packaging data and influencing their teams!"

"Natalie helped our team arrive at a high volume of new insights that we can immediately begin to apply. We all left with a creative confidence. Her approach explores what makes people tick, first, and then delivers a methodology that allows teams to collaboratively ebb and flow through ideas to get to amazing results. It’s both inspiring and helps our business on a tactical level!”

"We were fortunate to have Dr. Natalie Nixon share insights in the WonderRigor™ and design thinking methodology. The presentation evolved into a robust brainstorming session with all of our innovators participating. Pennovation’s cross section of biotech, robotics, data analytics and software startups found the session so meaningful. We pivoted our monthly member luncheon sessions to a more substantive, interactive gathering that encourages feedback and offers more dynamic takeaways. Not only did Dr. Nixon’s WonderRigor™ framework help us increase engagement in our monthly meetings, it prompted our startups to more proactively offer suggestions for tailored learning outcomes to support their entrepreneurial growth. We can’t thank her enough and look forward to having her back soon."

"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."

“Natalie’s business model workshop for the Urban Affairs Coalition nearly a decade ago was prescient. She guided us towards the relationship driven strategies that we are employing today. Her remarkable insight and skilled facilitation were invaluable to us and shaped how we built the future for our organization.”

"Our session with Natalie was both intense and stimulating. Natalie helped us rapidly apply the principles of wonder and rigor to real world challenges. This practical application was key to guiding us to think more creatively and recognize opportunities for curiosity in our approach. The Foresight Studio was an amazing, positive and meaningful experience for me and my team."

“Natalie is always fantastic to work with, and a great partner no matter what the objective! She is masterful at drawing out creativity and enabling us to think differently. Her guidance is helping us to create clear focus on our path forward.”