SERVICES

Bring your vision to life

Zahler Design is dedicated to creating a more vibrant world with you. Using design and serious play, we’ll chart a course through ambiguity. We will create a culture of collaboration through a rigorous (but fun!) design practice.

Strategic
Co-Design

Co-design enables you to tackle complex issues, transform systems, and build meaningful relationships with the communities you serve.

  • Launch a new service, program, or line of business

  • Establish effective partnerships and ecosystems with other organizations

  • Align annual plans to bigger, multi-year initiatives

  • Create memorable interactive experiences to engage your audiences

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Visual Facilitation

Visual facilitation sharpens your thinking, engages people inclusively, and makes ideas and processes tangible for shared understanding.

  • Retreats and intensives

  • Vision, Mission, Values workshops

  • Service blueprinting and systems mapping

  • Process and program definition

  • Visioning and futures thinking

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Creativity & Facilitation Training

Creativity and facilitation training unlocks tools for new perspective taking, critical analysis and evaluation, and unleashing original and innovative ideas.

  • Lunch and learns for creativity and collaboration

  • Capacity building workshops in innovation, strategy activation, and visioning

  • Facilitation superskills

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Imagine feeling like someone really gets your vision for a brighter world and understands the messy challenges to address

Create tangible outcomes that fuel your progress

When you work with Zahler Design, you will be able :

  • Build up your team’s unique strengths and sense of belonging

  • Create visual action plans and roadmaps your team can act on immediately

  • Align your programs to build on each other

  • Orchestrate the change process and bring your vision to life with equity and kindness

Zahler Design is a collaborative partner. Using human-centered design and serious play, we will create the conditions for inventive solutions you and your team will take pride and ownership in maintaining.

  • Human-centered design focuses on including those affected by a challenge in creating the solution using proven design techniques to guide the process.

  • Nothing happens in a vacuum. Understanding how relationships and environments interact within a system enables more effective interventions.

  • Serious play provides a framework to accelerate learning and support effective decision-making while simultaneously reducing risk and building relationships. Far from fluff … incorporating joy creates better results!

“Employees are likely to care more about the relevance and practice of design when they have been involved in the process, being able to contribute, feeling heard and valued, and ultimately their ideas or suggestions respected or even implemented.”

— From Strategic Design by Calabretta, Gemser & Karpen

Do you have an opportunity you’re itching to start on?

Send me a message and we’ll find time to talk. I can’t wait to hear what you’re working on!

Let’s talk