We are a responsible design firm. We use co-design to shape a better future.

We are a responsible design firm. We use co-design to shape a better future.
About People Rocket

People Rocket

How we work.

What we do.

We design intangible tools, the kinds of things that you feel, experience, and interact with every day such as business models, strategic plans, equitable practices, and change. We do this in three ways:

Strategic Projects

Strategic Projects

Need to think differently? Looking for a new perspective? We embrace a participatory, co-design model to consulting, bringing together experts from your team and ours to solve your biggest challenges.

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Packaged Experiences

Packaged Experiences

Stuck in a challenge? Looking to push your thinking, but short on time? We have a range of short packages designed to get at specific outcomes, from innovation to leadership development.

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Advisory Coaching

Advisory Coaching

Exploring a sticky problem? Looking to build new capabilities? We coach people and teams to define problems and create solutions using human-centered frameworks. We'll coach you — not tell you — how to arrive at your answers.

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Strategic Projects

Strategic Projects

Need to think differently? Looking for a new perspective? We embrace a participatory, co-design model to consulting, bringing together experts from your team and ours to solve your biggest challenges.

Learn More
Packaged Experiences

Packaged Experiences

Stuck in a challenge? Looking to push your thinking, but short on time? We have a range of short packages designed to get at specific outcomes, from innovation to leadership development.

Learn More
Advisory Coaching

Advisory Coaching

Exploring a sticky problem? Looking to build new capabilities? We coach people and teams to define problems and create solutions using human-centered frameworks. We'll coach you — not tell you — how to arrive at your answers.

Learn More

Strategic Projects

Need to think differently? Looking for a new perspective? We embrace a participatory, co-design model to consulting, bringing together experts from your team and ours to solve your biggest challenges.

Real clients, real stories.

Real clients, real stories.

Real clients, real stories.

Our clients include Fortune 500s, philanthropic organizations, academic institutions, government agencies, and startups — all looking for new ways to solve complex problems.

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Testing Blockchain Before We Invest In It

Supporting confident buyer decision-making and vendor negotiation

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Connecting the Dots Across a Complex System

Putting the whole system on one page let everyone see new ways to streamline—and immediately revealed one decades-long system error that had affected thousands of stakeholders

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Navigating The Future of Technology

Millions of dollars saved by avoiding contracts from high-pressure vendors that exploit customer uncertainty

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Mastering The Art of the Possible

Align sometimes competitive partners to co-create a shared vision of the future supply chain

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Building a Strategic Business Case For Blockchain

Deciding to digitize the supply chain will support the next 20 years of growth

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How a Better Back Room Became a Smarter Supply Chain

Accelerating a visionary concept to define the north star and reimagine the supply chain for the next 20 years

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Building Competency And Fluency In Emerging Tech

Decreasing barriers for CEOs to make robust technology decisions without spending too much time or money on learning new technologies

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Unlocking Innovation in The Australian Government

Creating dozens of ‘Innovation Ambassadors’ to catalyze the future

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Bringing Companies Together to Design a Better Future

Unlocking the power of collaboration across companies to design better solutions for the future

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Building Change Management Capability for Career Pathways

Creating a structured blueprint for stakeholder engagement around career conversations enables adoption across the company

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Coaching Leaders for the World Stage

Leaders leveraged coaching for long-lasting results, connecting with participants and gaining significant interest in funding for their projects

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Coaching Emerging Leaders to Maximize Organizational Impact

Coaching for leaders doesn’t end with the leaders — it trickles down — and up to the organization level too

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Empowering and Supporting Emerging Women Leaders

Improved performance in executive presence for a cohort of women leaders

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Co-Designing a Community-Focused Strategic Plan

Balancing the immediate needs of the organization with future impact

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Organizational Alignment through Ambiguity

Facilitating the co-design of a strategic plan through vehicles of innovation and a data-driven approach

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Increasing Transfer of Skills and Engagement in Trainings

Creating tools and protocols to generate confidence and abilities needed to increase engagement and transfer of technical trainings

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A DEI-First Strategic Plan and Theory of Change for Small Arts Giving

Aligning the foundation team to re-invent a decades-long program and integrate many more voices to reflect the needs of a changing community

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Bringing DEI to Life for a Fortune 500 Company

A framework to make more effective DEI program decisions that blends organizational needs with industry and academic research

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Layering In Innovation To Strategic Planning

Creating better decisions using a robust framework of decision data to guide a future strategy

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Prototyping Innovations In A Supply Chain

When a 30 minute process change could increase or decrease costs by 7,000 hours of labor, testing the idea before rolling it out is the only responsible choice

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Enabling Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Through Innovation

Co-creating inclusive solutions to better support employees

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Helping a Fortune 500 Company Become People Positive

Identifying trends to create an effective People Positive vision

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Researching the Future of Work in the Time of COVID-19

Navigating ambiguity and revealing blind spots through research

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Discovering the Talent-Led Revolution

Discovering that individuals, not companies, were driving market changes let Braintrust define their product offering to win several key clients and secure investment

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Paving the Way for Diversity Through Research

Leveraging research to create and encourage a set of processes, systems, and goals for increasing minority business participation in the supply chain

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Building a Culture of Learning and Development at a Fintech Unicorn

Empowering employees to continuously grow, develop, and thrive through ongoing change and ambiguity

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The Power of Psychological Safety for Emerging Leaders

Cultivating a community of practice for leaders through research-based, interactive workshops facilitating reflective inquiry, job-embedded application, and interpersonal connection

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Using Goals to Drive Collaboration and Create Buy-in

Setting measurable OKRs to maximize impact

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Diving into the Future of Work and Emerging Trends Amidst COVID19

As these trends continue to evolve, this research will inform and guide strategic decision making

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Turning Real-World Observations into Impact

Direct field observation reframed the problem for stakeholders, shifting thinking and creating clarity on the problem to be solved today

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Breathing New Life into the Onboarding Process

Finding commonalities through cohorts — without losing individuality

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Building Innovative Mindsets and Capabilities Across the Globe

Increase the value of executive education programs by building innovation capabilities and generating better real-world results

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Developing Camaraderie and Trust through a Merger

By working together to envision their new future, the team built trust as they created alignment on a new operational model for the merged organization

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Embracing Innovative Mindsets and Moves to Create Impact in the Caribbean

Over one hundred business owners created innovative new ideas to support their communities and adapt to the impact of the pandemic

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Our insights.Our insights.

Our insights.

Explore our latest ideas and insights across research, innovation, people, learning, technology, and more.

Insight

What We Can Learn About The Circular Economy From Amateur COVID Bakers

MEREDITH CALDWELL

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Impact Cascades

TESSA FORSHAW

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Productive Automation: Robots And Humans As Colleagues

TESSA FORSHAW

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Human-Centered Strategic Planning: Untangling Your Future Through Collaboration

MICHAEL TEMBLADOR

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Speaking to Users, Sampling, Defining Boundaries, and Generalizability

TESSA FORSHAW

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The Moonshot: Lessons Learned From Dreaming Big

RICHARD BRADEN

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The Myth Of Innovation — And Why We Should Aim To Be Innovation(Ish)

RICHARD BRADEN & TESSA FORSHAW

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Centralized Work Systems Left Us Vulnerable — Decentralized Work Is Our Future

TESSA FORSHAW

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You’ve got this and we’ve got you.You’ve got this and we’ve got you.

You’ve got this and
we’ve got you.

You’ve got this and
we’ve got you.

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Solving complex problems requires brave leadership. People Rocket’s innovative, customizable problem-solving approach makes us different from other agencies.

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