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We believe INNOVATION doesn’t require moonshots, million dollar labs, or magic.
Curious, capable people can make meaningful change at every level with small moves.
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A 90-minute team session that introduces the innovation-ish mindset and gives your team fast, practical tools to get unstuck and start solving problems differently together.
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Outcome: Shared language, new tools, clear starting point
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A one-day workshop that helps your team stop spinning, apply innovation-ish methods to their real priorities, and walk out with clear direction and tangible progress.
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A four-day working sprint that brings the innovation-ish approach to a high-stakes project—aligning your team, testing real ideas, and building a prototype with decisions and next steps in hand.
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Featured Client Work
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Real World Problem
The Fast Food client initially focused on back room efficiency at the restaurant level but failed to see the larger opportunity for supply chain-wide transformation.
Capability Built
Strengthened systems thinking, human-centered design, and emerging technology fluency, enabling the client to drive innovation, optimize operations, and implement future-ready digital solutions.
Breakthrough Solution
Developed a strategic plan and business case for digitizing the supply chain, leading to major cost savings while redirecting labor toward revenue-generating activities instead of pure cost reduction.
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Real World Problem
A Venture Philanthropy's traditional funding methods reinforced inequities by limiting opportunities to well-connected organizations, leaving diverse and community-driven initiatives underfunded.
Capability Built
A scalable, human-centered, and publicly available methodology that enables philanthropies to identify and support more diverse organizations, transforming the funding landscape for social innovation.
Breakthrough Solution
A 25x expansion in New Profit’s funding pipeline, increasing the number of identified grantees from 99 to 2,465 and reaching all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
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Real World Problem
The Premium Brand Family's C-level executives lacked confidence and fluency in emerging technologies, making it difficult to assess opportunities and make informed investment decisions.
Capability Built
Strengthened emerging technology fluency, strategic decision-making, and human-centered design thinking, equipping leaders to integrate innovation into their long-term business strategies
Breakthrough Solution
Executives developed fluency in emerging technologies, enabling them to confidently assess, invest in, and apply technology-driven innovations that aligned with their business strategy, reducing reliance on external vendors.

What People Are Saying
"You were the best strategic decision of my career. We needed to step back, see the bigger picture.”
Director of US Supply Chain
Global Fast Food Restraunt
“I'm HAD the same people working with the same data finding the same solutions. you showed them how to think differently.”
Customer & Commercial VP
The Coca-Cola Company
We’re an Innovation-ish Consulting Firm!
Authors, Design Educators and Consultants Rich and Tessa share their years of experience and lessons learned in the book Innovation-ish: How Anyone Can Create Breakthrough Solutions to Real Problems in the Real World.
For years, People Rocket has used the Innovation-ish Approach with our clients, creating breakthrough solutions to their most complex problems.
Learn more about this innovative approach at www.innovationish.com.