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today

Designing
tomorrow,

Empowering global organizations to build innovative cultures and creative solutions that transform lives

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We empower organizations to build a culture of innovation, solve complex problems in new ways, and develop creative products, programs, experiences, and services that transform people’s lives.

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OUR SERVICES

Ways we support your growth:

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Strategy & Transformation

Create a roadmap for the future. From a clear innovation mission and vision to operational metrics and a staffing plan, we will help you define a clear path to build a culture of innovation that transforms the future of your organization.

 

  • Design & Innovation Strategy ​

  • Program Assessment & Evaluation ​

  • Scaling Innovation ​

  • Innovation Maturity Assessment and Recommendations

  • Building a Culture of Innovation

  • System Integration and Transformation

  • Performance Measurement and Management

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Human-Centered Design

We will apply our rigorous innovation approach to help you generate and implement new and successful programs, policies, and digital services that generate impact you can measure.

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  • Provess Improvement

  • Stakeholder Mapping

  • Quantitative and Qualitative Research

  • Data Synthesis 

  • Participatory Design 

  • Ideation ​

  • Facilitation

  • Prototyping and Iteration

  • Piloting and Implementation

  • UX/UI Design 

Learning & Development

Build a workforce that innovates. We will customize our world-class human-centered design curriculum and teaching methods that have been tested with thousands of people around the world to help your organization learn how to tackle complex problems in new ways.

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  • Executive Leadership Coaching ​

  • Curriculum Development

  • Training

    • Human-centered Design 

    • Community Engagement

    • Customer Service Improvement

    • Improving Communication Skills

    • Cultural Competency 

ASCENDANT AT A GLANCE

Example impact achieved

$600m

saved in taxpayer dollars

In partnership with The United States Food and Drug Administration, increased access to healthy school lunches for children around the country and saved $600M in taxpayer dollars

600+

increase in educational and supportive services

Supported the City of Tel Aviv, Israel in creating a digital platform connecting parents to over 600 new educational and supportive services for their children

2bn+

website visitors a year

Led the redesign of the U.S. Federal Government's digital hiring portal USAJOBS.GOV, transforming the hiring experience for 2 billion visitors a year

58%

increase in equitable urban rejuvenation

Supported the reduction of dilapidated properties in Mobile, AL by 58%

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ABOUT OUR CEO

Fueled by the belief that good design changes lives, dedicated to proving it in the public realm.

Stephanie Wade, Founder and CEO, is a global leader in innovation, bringing expertise as a human-centered designer, government expert, strategist, and change-maker. With a track record that includes directing the U.S. Federal Government's first design-based Innovation Lab, and building and implementing a $65M innovation portfolio for governments around the world at Bloomberg Philanthropies, Stephanie is committed to fostering cultures of innovation and delivering impactful innovation projects around the world.

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OUR CLIENTS

We have worked with some amazing government, non-profit, academic, and private sector partners:

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