ABOUT
Who is Curiosity & Co.?
Formerly known as Epic Decade, we’ve spent over a decade taking on some of the most epic challenges of our time by focusing on the art and science of asking essential questions. This signature methodology is what we call Radical Curiosity, and it has become the operating system for Curiosity & Co.
Our process is industry-agnostic. We’ve worked across diverse fields such as retail, climate change, urban planning, financial services, healthcare, education, biotechnology, television, and social media. We build 9-18 month Innovation Labs* that put a rocketpack on organizations reinventing themselves by embracing the new values that are propelling flourishing futures.
Design thinking has its limits. So, we blend together several schools of thought and creative practices ranging from anthropology to biology, storytelling, communications systems thinking, and social movements.
We believe that society is going through an operating system reboot. A phenomenon we call a “cultural interregnum.” To be between things. We help leaders and organizations make sense of the challenger narratives that are upending tradition and inventing new ways for all of us to thrive.
A signature asset of the growing Curiosity & Co. ecosystem is our Ideas Salons. It has become the heartbeat of a knowledge community. They are design-hackathon retreats bringing VIP thought leaders for Pop-up R+D labs. Salons have been attended by more than 4,000 executives from organizations such as Apple, American Express, Google, GE, ConocoPhillips, Capital One Bank, Disney Imagineering, Mercedes Benz, the Gap, Kaiser Permanente, VISA, Suncor Energy, IBM, Oprah Winfrey Network, and the Guggenheim Museum.
What is an Innovation Lab?
The process is the project:
Take a peek at just a few examples of what we’ve been working on…
[ 1 Part Research Lab + 1 Part Executive Education + 1 Part Rapid Prototype Studio ]
Public Health // Labs
HISTORY:
Where we build upon our immersion as an innovation studio inside of a biotech unicorn supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to transform the treatment and experience of chronic disease.
RESEARCH:
Advance the research we’ve conducted at Salons with Blue Cross Blue Shield, GE Healthcare, Google, Brown University, Doctors Without Borders, the University of Toronto, and more.
COLLABORATIONS:
Continue our collaboration with challengers such as Dr. Alex Jadad, who consistently questions Do We Really Know What We Mean by Health?, founded the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, and who was recently selected by the World Federation of Public Health as one of only 17 members of a global Public Health Leadership Coalition with colleagues from the WHO, international universities, and national health ministries.
Living System // Labs
HISTORY:
Where we build upon our immersion as the convener of Nexus North, a multi-stakeholder consortium of governments, oil & gas companies, indigenous chiefs, and civil society NGOs cooperatively working together to reimagine the region of northern Alberta, Canada’s multi-trillion dollar Oil Sands as a model for sustainability in partnership with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo on a 50-year vision through 9-design principles of integrated social systems.
RESEARCH:
Advance the research we’ve conducted at Salons with leaders from the Athabasca Tribal Council, ConocoPhillips, Suncor, Local Motors, Husky Energy, IBM Canada, Cenovus Energy, Autodesk, Alberta Pacific Forest Industries, Innovation Expedition, Sustainable Communities, and the Mayor of Wood Buffalo.
COLLABORATIONS:
Continue our collaboration with challengers such as Charlie Cannon, an industrial design professor and co-principal investigator of the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, a $20 million investigation of the impact of climate change on marine life.