Our Services

  • We offer a full spectrum of strategies, from annual plans to five-year roadmaps, to innovation strategies that navigate ambiguity. Through trend analysis and resilience-building, we help organizations anticipate risks, seize opportunities, and stay ahead of change.

  • We create psychologically safe spaces for co-creation, alignment, and strategy development for small teams and audiences of more than 500. We design custom user experience journeys for every facilitation, ensuring positive behavior change is at the root of agendas.

  • We center people at the heart of our work and use design thinking to generate insight into social and behavioral change possibilities for innovation. Our equity-centered, trauma-informed approach ensures solutions address systemic disparities with safety, trust, collaboration, and empowerment.

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Transformation Strategy 

Examples

Enterprise Innovation Strategy

Venture Building

Innovation Portfolio Creation, Management, and Assessment

Market Research and Landscape Analysis

Strategic Foresight Research

Facilitation 

Examples

Strategic Planning Sessions

Leadership Retreats & Offsites

Ideation Challenges & Design Jams

Co-Creation & Alignment Sessions

Large-Scale Events & Summits (500+)

Design Thinking 

Examples

Designing Demand-driven Products and Services

Design Sprints

Assumption Testing

Rapid Prototyping

Risk Mitigation and Management

Our Approach

Partnering with teams & beneficiaries to design inclusive, shared solutions 

Co-creation

Equity Lens

Embedding fairness, access, and inclusion in every decision

Future Proofing

 Resilience-building 

Preparing organizations to adapt, evolve, and lead through Foresight tools.

Strengthening the capacity of our partner organizations to navigate uncertainty

Behavioural Design

Enabling Cultures 

Leveraging behavioural insights to design impactful and innovative solutions 

Building environments where collaboration thrives and change happens.

  • “I HIGHLY recommend Rising Solutions who worked with my team on defining and rolling out our team's purpose, identity and impact. They have a wealth of knowledge and experience in both international development and strategic planning, serving as a significant resource for industry best practices and standards, including their own research and analyses.”

    — Patty-Leigh Thielmann, VP of International Programs at Food for the Hungry Canada

  • What value does RS provide? “The technical support they provide helps to shift mindsets. Empathy and positive thinking!”

    — Muthoni Wachira Kantai, Director at John Snow International

  • “An incredible side effect (or maybe by-design effect!) of our engagement with Rising Solutions was team building and employee engagement. They demonstrated our values in action and invited others to join in.”

    — Molly Henry, Director Talent & Seeking at Alight

  • "Rising Solutions has a rare ability to make complex, uncertain issues feel both understandable and actionable. Rather than simply identifying trends, they helped the ISEA Board and leadership team understand the strategic implications of disruption and translate uncertainty into actionable priorities. Michelle and her team set the stage and facilitated the most valuable strategic conversation we've had as an organization. I would recommend Rising Solutions to any organization looking to build a more future-ready strategy."

    — Cam Mackey, President & CEO of International Safety Equipment Organization

  • "Rising Solutions brings experience, professionalism, and expertise—while maintaining balance in complex political dynamics. By bringing and displaying this balance in a sensitive way, the company is (subtly) forced to listen and own up to decisions (not) following the advice from RS, enabling stronger accountability….RS was quick to pivot to the needs of the company, positively impacting the overall delivery and… in part, culture."

    — Mathijs, de Lepper, Lead, Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation at Rainforest Alliance