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Services Ecosystem Mapping

Discover deeper connections for your business by understanding the values and dynamics of your stakeholders, communities, and associations happening in their real-time interactions.

We’ll bring the information and insights back to you for better planning and execution of day-to-day tactics against your long-term strategy-.

Executing a strategy is depending upon a clear understanding of your business and it's ecosystem.

Helping Tech PM’s Build With Joy — Tempo

Getting a Rising Tech Star Into a New Rhythm

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Ecosystem Mapping is about Stakeholders

Identification

Uncover key communities, associations, and audiences.

Assessment

Analyze values and value within relationships and offerings.

Development

Create adaptable maps for relationship building.

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How we map your ecosystem

Mapping relationships within your business is about more than identifying stakeholders—it’s about learning how to engage dynamically with them. We help your team develop the skills to improvise messaging, responding in real time to stakeholder needs and shifting contexts. This approach strengthens relationships and keeps your brand agile.

Audiences, communities, teams, and stakeholders are all showing the values in the moment and your presence isn’t necessary, required or at times even noticed. So the goal becomes to understand the values of the groups we seek to interact, by using curiousity. In this way, we understand them and can make them feel seen. We’re not looking to change who we are, just be sure we can acknowledge others in the ways they’ll understand.

We train your team to articulate your value proposition in ways that adapt to different audiences and moments. This improvisational approach to communication ensures that your brand’s values resonate authentically, allowing leaders and teams to respond creatively to emerging opportunities within your ecosystem.

Engaging communities is not a one-size-fits-all process. We focus on giving your team the tools to improvise their communication strategies based on the evolving needs and values of your ecosystem. By empowering your leaders to communicate in the moment, you build deeper, more responsive connections with your communities.

Our visual maps serve as a framework for improvisation, showing how different relationships interact and providing a foundation for dynamic, real-time communication. With these tools, your team can adapt messaging strategies fluidly, responding to shifts in your business ecosystem and market demands.

Strategy

Clients

“They’ve been a great partner in helping us identify how we will succeed in the market.”

Josephene Taylor

Here’s how we’ will Work Together

Collaborative Exploration

We co-create a flexible map of your ecosystem, empowering your team to practice messaging improvisation that adapts to real-world conditions.

Insight-Driven Mapping

Together, we identify key stakeholders and provide your team with the tools to improvise messaging that resonates authentically in different situations.

Iterative Engagement

We work closely with you, refining and evolving your communication strategies as your ecosystem changes, ensuring your team remains confident in improvising messages that build trust.

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Our Case Studies

Building Equitable Energy Futures

Branding an equity energy future.

Helping the Nation Find Sustainable Banking

Sustainable banking can be found here

Fintech Ecosystems with Purpose

Helping a Global Venture Firm Build a more Fair Financial System

The Most Sustainable Fishery in the World

Branding for the most sustainable fishery in the world

Branding For Our Collective Histories

Our Collective Histories built for a Connected Future

Regenerative Realestate Ecosystem

Building a Regenerative Community for the city of Chicago

AI Company Using Humans for Content — Numerify

Building a Content Machine for an AI Analytics Company

Superbowl Staffing Agency Needs New Thinking — BCforward

Helping an international transformation change agent to define their public expression

Connecticuts’ State Bank Manifests Community — Nutmeg

Connecticuts' State Bank wanted to connect better with it's ecosystem

Making a Theory into Change — B Lab

Working to make business a force for change

Seth Godin’s MBA Startup Needed Help — Alt-MBA

HELPING THIS COMAPNY TRANSITION FROM MIOPIC TO BROAD AND INCLUSIVE. IN SHORT, SETH NEEDED SOME HEAT.

Helping Tech PM’s Build With Joy — Tempo

Getting a Rising Tech Star Into a New Rhythm

Black Wealth is About More Than Money

Laying a Foundation for Data-Driven Wealth Equity

HealthTech Gets Look and Language — Rectangle Health

Lots of regulation means better processes for visual and verbal communication

National Growth Marketing Campaign — Ad Council

Belonging and Place in the United States for those who need place-based community

Boston Needs Racial Wealth Equity Data — Boston Foundation

Providing resources for grant makers in Boston and the Massachusetts area.

National B2G Branding and Content — Cocensus

Laying a Foundation for Data-Driven Wealth Equity