Rising Solutions

We drive positive change in the world by partnering with nonprofits, governments, companies, and social enterprises to transform great ideas into reality.

Transformation Strategy

We offer a full spectrum of strategy, from annual plans to five-year roadmaps and innovation strategies that navigate ambiguity, helping organizations anticipate risk, seize opportunity, and stay ahead of change.

Facilitation

We create psychologically safe spaces for co-creation and alignment, designing custom experiences for small teams and large audiences that center positive behavior change.

Design Thinking

We center people in our work, using equity-centered, trauma-informed design thinking to generate insight and address systemic disparities with safety, trust, and collaboration.

Our Values

We bring our values to everything we do. Striving to be remembered as thoughtful, effective, and compassionate problem-solvers. We’ve been featured as a model for purpose-driven business by Authority Magazine and Medium.com.

  • We design with people, not just for outcomes.

    Empathy allows us to understand the human systems inside organizations. It helps us create psychologically safe spaces, navigate complexity, and build strategies that people can actually carry forward. Sustainable change is relational.

  • We do not assume we have the answer. We listen first.

    Humility means entering every engagement with respect for our clients’ lived experience and institutional wisdom. It keeps us collaborative, adaptable, and grounded in service rather than ego. Strategy is strongest when it is co-created.

  • We ask better questions before we offer solutions.

    Curiosity drives our foresight, research, and design work. We explore patterns, challenge assumptions, and look beyond the obvious to uncover what is really shaping your organization. Innovation begins with inquiry.

  • We are willing to name what others avoid.

    Bravery means facilitating difficult conversations, confronting entrenched patterns, and helping leaders make courageous decisions. Transformation requires honesty.

Our Impact

Empowering people, strengthening systems, and delivering impact for mission-driven organizations.

100%

of our clients believed our work increased access to new opportunities, new revenue or new growth.

91%

of our clients feel confident in their ability to create psychological safety for their teams after our engagement.

100%

of our clients stated our work had a positive impact on company culture.

Our Approach

We thrive in the realm of sense-making, ambiguity, and testing assumptions.

As an award-winning strategy and design thinking firm, Rising Solutions brings expertise in strategy, alignment, and consensus-building through a multidisciplinary approach that integrates behavioral economics, design thinking, and strategic foresight.

  • Understanding human decision-making and biases.

  • Creative, human-centered problem solving

  • Anticipating future trends and disruptions to mitigate strategic risk

Our clients are united by a commitment to creating meaningful impact in the world.

Every engagement we accept must have a measurable social return or impact angle. What does that mean? Our partners are organizations creating meaningful, systemic change across health, climate, philanthropy, education, and more.

Meet the Team

  • Ricky

    Technical Advisor: Technology & Entrepreneurship

  • Danielle

    Innovation Portfolio Manager

  • Dev

    Software Engineer: Product

  • Vivi

    Accountant

  • Isabella

    Growth and Business Innovation Lead

  • Malika

    Chief Financial Officer

  • Michelle

    Founder & Principal

  • Eleanor

    Marketing and Events Coordinator

  • Brooke

    Marketing and Communications Intern

  • Jeremy

    Marketing and SEO Consultant

Let’s Work Together

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