Our Work
If these challenges could be solved within one system, they already would be. We work in the spaces between—where perspectives converge, creativity sparks, and the next bright solutions take root. Together, we turn complexity into possibility.
Take a moment and explore a few of our projects—where complexity became possibility, and possibility became impact.
DOW Chemical
DOW Chemical, a Fortune 500 company, partnered with HTC and HATCH to co-design an innovative approach aimed at increasing consumer participation in recycling plastic film—a notoriously challenging material to recycle.
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School’s PGED is partnering with the HTC design team to lead a groundbreaking initiative advancing genetic innovation through participatory design and cross-sector solutioning.
Parenthood: The Unconference — Designing Your Life for Joy
Holly Truitt Consulting partnered with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Education and Knowledge to design an immersive “Designing Your Life for Joy” Lab at Parenthood: The Unconference, helping parents cultivate well-being, creativity, and purpose through design thinking and the science of joy.
Blackstone
Holly Truitt Consulting partnered with this impact-driven Fortune 500 company and its Foundation to empower the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs, strengthening the vital student-to-career pipeline.
Funding Factory Forum — Unlocking Entrepreneurial Capital Across Montana
Holly Truitt Consulting partnered with REAL Colab and regional funders to design and facilitate the inaugural Funding Factory Forum—a first-of-its-kind gathering uniting bankers, investors, and CDFIs to unlock entrepreneurial capital across Montana. The two-day event moved from conversation to action, accelerating strategies that strengthen Main Street businesses and expand access to funding for founders statewide.
Co-created Missoula Public Library
Just awarded Public Library of the Year by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Holly co-led the integration of Nordic collective impact practices and design into this project – the first of its kind in the nation. She and partners currently co-lead the community and tribal co-design of a vibrant healthscience-learning ecosystem that is one component of the complex.
SciNation on the Flathead Reservation
SciNation is an award-winning collective on the Flathead Reservation that is committed to building a homegrown Native STEM workforce on the Flathead Reservation. It was launched as part of Holly’s fellowship with the Noyce Foundation. Pictured here is the firm’s talented Bill Swaney, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes. Bill is a leader in tribal design for transformation.
EmPower Place
Design Your Life Labs + Deck
Holly and Elysa Fennenbock, formerly of Google, are creating a design for life + innovation deck to complement their labs. Rooted in co-creation and design-thinking, the deck’s concepts are intentionally bite-sized so that the average person can make transformative change in their life, work and community. Holly and Elysa have used the cards in their design labs for Stanford d.school, HATCH, the ILLC international leadership network, and women’s innovation spaces and festivals like AUDpop’s annual innovation festival.
