Stuck on a challenge that seems too big to solve? Overwhelmed by uncertainty? Need to move faster to stay ahead?

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What We Do

We are a rapid innovation firm and method based in Silicon Valley, practiced around the world. We help leaders, organizations and communities break their big goals into smaller, more actionable pieces, so they can take action and get results. Fast. We do this through our SMALLIFY Labs.

SMALLIFY Lab for

Teams

Structured, project-based experiences to accelerate implementation of products, services, processes, policies, or strategies (from concept to pilot in 90 minutes to 90 days).

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SMALLIFY Lab for

Leaders

Results-focused professional development and team-building programs based on SMALLIFY tools (human-centered design, rapid innovation, futures thinking, systems thinking, collaborative problem solving, trust-building, conflict and change management, and innovation leadership).

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SMALLIFY Lab for

Organizations

Dedicated support and delivery of SMALLIFY Labs and training programs to accelerate an organization’s objectives and key results and build sustainable capacity in SMALLIFY tools across a workforce or leadership network.

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Our Tools

SMALLIFY is built around a set of practical problem solving and rapid innovation tools. Like “Lego” pieces, SMALLIFY tools are modular and can be tapped at any time, for any duration, in situational leadership.

SMALLIFY

How to break big goals and challenges into smaller, more actionable pieces, and make progress faster through small bets and small wins.

THINK BIG

How to set clear and measurable “North Star” goals to address customer or societal needs and identify emergent opportunities in markets or systems.

FEAR LESS

How to adopt a growth or entrepreneurial mindset, open to experimentation, iteration and change.

OPEN UP

How to develop insights on customer needs and opportunities and design solutions to address those needs (human-centered design).

SAY YES

How to set up conditions for innovation and generate ideas using futures thinking, improv and other techniques for creative collaboration to conceive of new possible solutions.

MAKE STUFF

How to bring ideas to life quickly and affordably through rapid prototyping for fast customer and stakeholder feedback.

BET SMALL

How to use small bets (rapid experiments, evaluation and iteration) based on affordable risk to move to action and accelerate learning.

GO BIG

How to use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to generate successive “small wins” to build momentum, validate solutions and accelerate implementation and scale.

Our Work

All

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Societal Impact

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Government

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Business

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Executive Education

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Startups

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Our Team

Dave Viotti

Founder & CEO

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Payton Shubrick

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Megan Christenson

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Chris Block

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Alice Chen

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Aubrey Yee

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

Kerrie Urosevich

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.