Organization Design ● Product Design ● Strategy ● Climate Resilience
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. — Paul Hawken
We started building the Earthshot Institute be summarizing a strategic vision into a simple sentence. It took some iteration but we eventually landed on open science for planetary regeneration, which proved to successfully rein in our audience. This statement was paired with a moodboard that began to outline a graphic identity for our new organization.
To deliver this vision we defined key principles, created early designs for key features and planned and prioritized services to focus on, continuously engaging with the a community of advisers, open science practitioners, and members of the extended community.
The success of early stage organizational efforts is highly dependent on being able to understand key stakeholders. I designed a custom relationship management database to drive integrated generative collaboration. I chose Notion for its ability to link databases between each other with ease while allowing the quick transfer of key information directly from a browser.
This framework allowed to build a efficacy into our market landscape analysis and fundraising research.
Diagramming played an important role in keeping track the various parts we wanted the organization to have, and most importantly, understanding how they relate to one another and how to prioritize our efforts.
Our process for enacting open science for planetary regeneration involved a unique assembly of people, organizational frameworks, and data engineering armatures, all mobilized towards regenerative outcomes that take in consideration both the social and the ecological dimensions of the process.
Once the overall organizational strategy further defined, it was time to engage our audiences through engaging materials. I used my time purposefully to shape a website and pitch deck for our early stage organization.
'Le chêne,' pronounced [leuh-sheh-n' means oak tree in French, my native language.
