We solve complex business challenges in a new and different way.
We start every program with an AI-powered inovation session, to rally your cross-functional team around the challenge, and rapidly fill the pipeline with viable solutions.
In today’s market, speed is of the essence. How do you get to dozens of viable ideas fast?
By empowering the entire organization to contribute meaningful solutions.
Good ideas can come from anywhere….but without structure they usually don’t.
Our unique methodology unlocks the innovative potential of everyone on your team, enabling them to ideate and innovate as if they had been doing it for years.
“The Navigator Collective’s unique approach saved us thousands of dollars, and literally months of timeline.”
—Diane Rames
Treasurer, Greater San Francisco Ad Club
Our Vision
We aim to revolutionize the speed and impact of innovation.
Our Mission
By creating a flywheel of human-conceived and AI-enabled ideas that unlock growth from every corner of the enterprise.
Our Purpose
Because we believe companies can grow faster when innovation is more inclusive, fearless…and fun.
“After more than 20 years in advertising and marketing agencies, I’ve had the great privilege of working in a variety of roles and industries. Innovation has always been central to the work. Campaigns, go to market programs, branding, operational improvements, growth planning, product development…fresh, breakthrough thinking is essential.
In the old days, innovation was a black box, handled by a small group of highly-trained creatives. These days, those folks tend to be pretty stretched. The hardest part is getting past the blank page, and that’s exactly where our unique, AI-powered approach comes in. We bring a much broader, cross-functional team together at the start of the project, and we use AI to help the team unleash good ideas from every corner of the org.
Over the past 10 years, I’ve run hundreds of co-creation workshops for startups, small businesses, F100 companies, agencies, consultancies, educational institutions, and nonprofits all over the world. Countless times, I’ve seen innovative ideas come from IT, Accounting, HR, and other disciplines that typically aren’t invited into the process. I firmly believe that great ideas must come from everywhere. When we give more people access to creative ideation processes- and train them properly - the volume, quality and diversity of ideas accelerates.”
– Paul Sears
Founder & CEO
Advisor, University of San Francisco Strategic AI Program
We are 30+ independent partners, bringing an average of 15-20 years of experience each. We represent a wide range of 20+ functional disciplines.
We form tailored squads to address the unique needs of each client, giving us the ability to solve nearly any type of business challenge.
We’ve honed our craft in some amazing places.
We’ve run hundreds of innovation sessions with clients around the world.
workshops over the past 10 years
200+
clients in 13 countries
120+
participants per session: in-person, remote, hybrid
5-50
Meet the Team:
Joshua Haddock, LMFT
Behavioral Psychology & CBT
Wesley Chan
Product Innovation
Sara Macfarlane
Social Psychology, Research, Strategy
Patrick Conreaux
Chief Creative Officer
Courtney Newman
Training & Change Management
Jonathan Hua
Chief Financial Officer
Kay Brungs Laud
Social Responsibility & DEI
Lori Denaro
Communications & Content Strategy
Dozie Anyaegbunam
Content Marketing
Dan Sorgen
Creative Direction & Storytelling
Neha Khetan
Project Management, Event Production
Emily Trickey
B2B & Nonprofit Marketing
Esteven Gamez
Head of Social Marketing
Shannon Riordan
Brand Strategy
Chris Ruszkowski
Chief Marketing Officer
David Ross
Head of Innovation
Rachel Moore
DE&I, Group Facilitation
Jennifer Dellapina
Strategy & Planning
Lauren Verdery
Advisory, Marketing, Communications
Marc Calamia
Content Production & Strategy
Rochelle Webb
Marketing, Media, Entrepreneurship
João Machado
Innovation & Product Marketing
Sarah Harrison
Operations & Project Management
Alecia Dantico
CX & Customer Engagement
Mikaela Bolling
B2B & Nonprofit Marketing
Shane Collins
Communications & Content
Kelli Johnson
Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Rebecca Eastland
Research & Brand Strategy
Leah McMullen
Brand Strategy & Marketing
Kyle Smallegan
Brand & Product Marketing
Megan Riddle-Fulton
Brand & Product Marketing
Kevin MacLean
Business Strategy, Advisory
Becky Olson
Public Relations
Carlos Ricque
Executive Creative Director
Milind Raval
Executive Leadership Coaching
David Imani
Digital & Social Strategy
Our
Values
We specialize in training people to collaborate with kindness. Our own culture supports the same ideals. We foster acceptance and understanding, grace & forgiveness, humility and laughter. If we accidentally step on each other’s toes (as even the best among us are prone to do from time to time), we’re candid with each other about it, and we respectfully hear each other out. That’s why our team is so passionate about helping the Collective and its clients win together.
Courage
Bravely venture into the new.
Resourcefulness
Activate each others’ unique gifts.
Inclusivity
Play together like a winning team: candidly, openly, and with shared accountability.
Resilience
Nurture a growth mindset and be able to laugh at our own mistakes and flaws.
Empathy
Listen to understand and feel the other person’s experience.
Respect
Collaborate with kindness, affirming the good in each other’s work.