We co-create buy-in and adoption to advance climate and regenerative goals.
We create the conditions for mission-driven organizations and coalitions to move from ambitious vision to sustained impact—with alignment, buy-in, and adoption, through inclusive facilitation, system insight and actionable co-creation grounded in living systems thinking.
How do you navigate uncertainty
while building the internal buy-in and external adoption that turns good intentions into lasting change?
For mission-driven organizations and coalitions building a more circular, regenerative and just future,
we’ve seen what makes change so hard:
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Lack of Alignment: Your team struggles to align on priorities
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Fragmented Efforts: Your coalition partners’ efforts are fragmented and buy-in is low
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Slow Adoption: Your community is slow to adopt and equitable outcomes are limited.
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Momentum Stalls: Your programs launch with promise, but momentum stalls
WE BELIEVE
We can co-create a better future when we can weave what makes us unique into reciprocal systems that are resilient to change, through intentional services, relationships, and systems.
We co-create the conditions that help you grow:
Aligned
Vision
Internal clarity that survives external pressures and helps you invest in what matters
Stakeholder
Buy-in
Partners who champion your work because they helped cultivate it
Community Adoption
Desirable programs that are designed and tested with the people they serve
Ecosystem Investment
Growing what works by building evidence and catalyzing connections
We help you build internal alignment on clear, impactful opportunities while co-designing programs that communities actually want to engage with and use. When market conditions shift or funding priorities change, you'll have the clarity and stakeholder buy-in to adapt without losing momentum.
For Mission-Driven Organizations
For Coalitions and Networks
We help you build internal alignment around your highest-value role in complex systems and create the conditions for your diverse members to cohere and flourish. Your coalition becomes a space where competing priorities transform into reciprocal relationships that fosters resilience and belonging.
WE HOLD THE SPACE, FOCUS THE PACE
We weave inclusive facilitation, co-design, human centered design, service design with system insight grounded in living systems thinking that builds buy-in as it builds solutions. Our approach, developed over 20 years of being embedded within and supporting mission-driven networks, creates structure and momentum when the path forward isn’t clear. We use proven methods and have a track record of real results with our partners, including Feeding America, New Ecology, the State of Illinois and the Institute for Market Transformation.
 Working SessionMaking sense of stakeholder data to pull out what matters most |
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 Sharing about design in the social sectorREFED Nonprofit Food Recovery Hackathon |
 PrototypingMaking ideas tangible through low-fidelity prototypes |
 Public speakingFeeding America Annual Conference: Transforming the neighbor experience |
 Design coachingNorthwestern EDI Service Design class 2019 |
 DiscoveryUsing design research to better understand context and needs |
 Digital platform developmentOrderAhead: A web app and service provided by the FA national office that enables people that experience food insecurity to access food and services in a dignified and discrete way. |
 Public speaking about foresightFeed Nourish Connect 2019: Applying foresight to the charitable food sector |
 Co-DesignCreating opportunities for co-creation |
 Service prototypingDeveloping physical experience prototypes to envision and refine opportunities |
 Modeling servicesUsing service blueprinting and other methods to defining how new or improved ideas work |
 Testing MVPsCreating and testing minimum viable products and services to de-risk, evaluate and refine potential service offerings |
 Testing operating modelsUsing prototypes to test backend operations to co-create the optimal experience for staff |
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
- Buckminster Fuller
Dan Butt
He/him
Principal
Dan supports mission-driven organizations to envision and realize their potential for impact. As a service designer, strategist and social impact innovator, Dan works with partners to co-create actionable strategies and bring ideas to life for sustained impact.
Building on years of on-the- ground experience working closely with partners and people with lived experience, he has supported his partners to bring circularity to food waste and accessibility to healthcare. In deep collaboration with his partners, his work has led to critical mindset shifts, locally impactful solutions and nationally scaled tools. Dan employs a mix of human-centered, participatory, regenerative, systemic and foresight approaches to define strategic opportunities, co-design interventions and operationalize value for his stakeholders.
Past
Partners
- Feeding America
- Northern IL Food Bank
- Feeding Tampa Bay
- NW Indiana Food Bank
- Gleaners Food Bank
- Houston Food Bank
- Foodbank Dayton
- Second Harvest Food Bank Of Greater New Orleans And Acadiana
- St Mary's Food Bank
- Central California Food Bank
- Second Harvest of Central Florida FB
- San Antonio FB
- Akron Canton FB