What if compliance headaches could become your competitive advantage?
Most deliverables end up in a deck and get forgotten. Build circular capability into how teams actually work — mapped to the metrics that matter for your business and synced with your development process so insights land in your next product cycle.
Break out of slides and into your product.
FOUR WAYS TO PLAY
Four engagements designed to ladder.
Start with a Field Guide that maps where you stand and what’s on the horizon, or a Product Teardown that surfaces immediate insights from a real product on the table. Both feed into Concept Sprints and Capability Programs that move new thinking from strategy to practice.
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We take apart a real product from your roadmap and put it back together. Surface the value hiding inside the things you're already making, and the wins worth incorporating into the next version.
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Build a circularity baseline across your product and organization — and learn where you're paying too much for waste and where your brand can win.
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Start from your real business challenges and sprint from questions to concepts in two days. Sometimes the questions surfaced matter more than the answers. A little stressful. A lot of fun.
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Inspired by how leading companies like Cisco and IKEA train their teams at scale. Custom gamified learning that makes the key tradeoffs visible across product, design, and engineering teams.
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PRODUCT TEARDOWNS
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One day. Same-day insights.
For teams shipping physical products.
A teardown is like an escape room with a real product instead of a puzzle, your team instead of strangers, that ends with ideas that anchor to your roadmap.
You bring the product and the team. Whether your place or ours, we bring the kit, the framework, the structure, and run a half-day that surfaces what three quarters of design reviews never will.
Cross-functional colleagues working a real unit, not a slide. Unscrewed fasteners telling them things the BOM doesn’t. Material recovery opportunities, design-for-disassembly wins, component reuse pathways, conversations worth starting tomorrow — and the photographs to prove the team did real work together.
The output: an annotated audit, a prioritized opportunity list, metrics the whole team has eyes on, and a day people actually talk about on Monday.
Two ways to Teardown:
In-House: Half a day at your office or a sponsor space. You handle the room and the food, we bring everything else.
Off-Site Experience: Half a day at a curated third space. We handle the venue, the food, the branded kits, and the documentation. The offsite your design team has been asking for, with something to show for it.
FIELD GUIDES
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12 weeks. Strategic baseline.
For organizations getting started.
Over twelve weeks, your team maps your own operations, market, and regulatory horizon — through six guided activities, one every two weeks. The result is a translation your team makes themselves: where you have leverage, where you're exposed, and where you can win. Composed of activities on a Miro board (and PDF) you can work through together or have facilitated. Book a call and we'll find a path forward. The output is a custom field guide, aligned with the ISO 59000 family of standards, that you can build on.
Six Activities:
Lay of the Land
Get inspired with compelling case studies, map your product and explore where its value can be recovered.Score Your Shelf
Develop a baseline for your portfolio and rate your products on repairability and other metrics.Find Your People
Chart who touches the product from sourcing and design to ops, and reverse logistics. Bridge the silos and build a super squad.
Follow the Value
Identify leverage points and your exposure as you track the value of your product over its lifetime.Align Incentives
Generate incentives and audit existing ones to see how to close the loop and identify what you may be accidentally penalizing.Concept Prototype
Discover a root problem and answer it with a design solution that can be storyboarded and tested quickly.
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CONCEPT SPRINTS
Full-day, or two-day formats.
For teams looking for what's next.
When the question isn't "how do we improve this product" but "what should we build next ," we run a structured sprint that moves your team from circular economy principles to a portfolio of validated go-to-market concepts.
Every sprint is rooted in a specific business challenge you bring to the table - not abstract ideation. I pair AI agent–based research and concept testing with human prototyping and validation methods to produce concepts ready for executive review.
The output:
One day: three to five concept directions. Cross-functional team. For pipeline work.
Two days: a full portfolio with validation. For strategic planning.
Both grounded in a real business challenge — helping cross-functional teams translate ambition into testable outcomes
CAPABILITY PROGRAMS
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Custom programs. Standalone or bundled with a Field Guide.
For organizations serious about circular as a capability.
Custom gamified learning experiences that develop circular capabilities across product, design, engineering, and leadership teams. Methodology developed at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and applied at scale and paired with a fifteen-year background in play, toy design, and behavior change.
People don't change because they're told to. They change because something becomes obvious, useful, or fun. Capability programs use play as the mechanism while making tradeoffs visible, decisions repeatable, and circular thinking a default rather than an exception. Delivered through a mix of digital and physical learning, scaled and tailored to your team.
The output: Capability programs are tailored to your operational reality. Requires a shared baseline before designing the curriculum. Three paths in:
Bundled with a Field Guide. Six-week baseline followed by a custom program built on what the Field Guide surfaces. Best for organizations starting from scratch.
Standalone. If your team has done the work — recent maturity assessment, EPR audit, internal sustainability strategy — we can move directly into program design.
Beyond full engagements, I'm available as a keynote speaker, panel moderator, and expert facilitator for industry conferences, corporate offsites, academic and policy events, and innovation workshops that need outside facilitation.
Topics include circular design strategy, cascade mapping, using play as an engagement engine, and themes from The Riparian newsletter.
Speaking, facilitation & expert moderation
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Thirty minutes, no deck, no pitch - just a real conversation under an NDA about what you're working on and what's in the way.
Let's solve your circularity challenge.