Services
Zahler Design works with arts organizations, social enterprises, nonprofits and foundations
What if your business operations were as beautiful as the art you produce?
Or your internal processes as impactful as your community engagement?
Using design and thinking in systems, we’ll chart a course through ambiguity. We will create an inclusive culture of collaboration through a rigorous (but fun!) design practice.
I envision a world where organizations harness joy, delight, and craftsmanship in day-to-day processes as an engine to power greater impact.
Services
Strategy & Design Consulting
Define structure, objectives, and processes to withstand change and activate your vision and strategy across programs and the organization.
Organizational frameworks
Budget modeling and process
Service blueprinting and systems mapping
Process and program definition
Capacity Building
Multiply skills in collaboration, creativity, strategy, and innovation across internal teams and business units.
Identify critical skills and behaviors
Map competency and maturity models
Craft employee journeys to mastery
Define roles, resources, and events
Lead training and project engagements
Retreats & Intensives
Take time away from the daily grind for focused creativity, decision-making, and building group agreements for improved operations.
Visioning & futures thinking
Strategy activation
Operational planning
Building shared knowledge management
Establishing objectives and impact measures
Impact Storytelling
Create visual narratives that celebrate the work you’re doing to make the world a better place.
Examine impact metrics and data collection practices
Gather personal narratives
Reveal work efforts and data through visual storytelling
Culture Deep Dive
Uncover perspectives and patterns at all levels of the organization through research guided by equitable frameworks.
1:1 research interviews
Focus groups for ideation
Identify the most critical elements of culture
Thought Partnership
Scheduled and on-demand support to think through creative strategy-making, identifying opportunities, building design strategy acumen, and crafting storytelling.
Design Process
“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
Let’s talk about how I can help
Does what I’ve described sound like you? 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!