Lodestone Design Thinking Sprints
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Immersive, Full-Service Design Thinking Offsites For Product, Innovation, and Strategy Teams
About Lodestone
Meaning "course stone" or "leading stone", a Lodestone is a piece of rare magnetized earth often used as an early compass. How Lodestones are made is somewhat mysterious, but it is thought these powerful ancient tools are energized when struck by the strong magnetic fields surrounding lightning bolts.
Explorers and navigators in antiquity used Lodestones to expand horizons, discover new possibilities, and to navigate safely through unknown waters. The power, mystery, and knowledge of how to use the Lodestone was itself an important tradition—passed down and improved upon by each new generation of seekers and solvers—a radical tool for charting new paths.
Lodestone Offsite Experiences harness this transformative ethos, energizing teams with the knowledge and the tools they need to effectively navigate uncharted futures together with confidence, clarity, new design-thinking skills, concrete takeaways, and clear next steps.
Turn Brainstorms
Into Roadmaps
We offer two Lodestone Offfsite Experiences: The 2 Day Lodestone and The 5 Day Lodestone.
Combining human-centered design thinking frameworks, team neurobiology, and an embedded "team sprint"-inspired approach, a Lodestone Design Thinking Sprint is a multi-day collaborative process made for answering critical business questions through innovation-led iterative prototyping.
Fully supported before, during, and after, our interdisciplinary team of onsite expert Modus Lodestone Guides maximize both productive output and resonant engagement.
Understand
1
Ideate
2
Decide
3
Validate
5
Prototype
4
Not *Just* A Retreat
Fully supported + aligned with whole-body and whole-team engagement, our 2 Day and 5 Day Lodestones reimagine outcomes, throughput, AND experience.
What The Lodestone Experience Delivers.
Onsite Modus Lodestone Guides: a Modus Lodestone Innovation Facilitator, a UX Lead, and an Engineering Lead
Up to 4 rapidly developed business solutions
Immersive culinary experiences unlock empathetic and creative centers in the brain
Pre-sprint interviews, surveys, and curriculum to engage and prepare attendees
Pre-sprint coaching to tailor experiences, define goals, and set outcomes
Custom-crafted agenda templates, with co-working and open innovation breaks
Proprietary exercises that foster deep collaboration and ecologically-forward design
Post-sprint accountability coaching, based on two decades of innovation management
Tangible Takeaway: Pitchable concepts
Tangible Takeaway: Product roadmaps
Tangible Takeaway: Corporate agenda
5 Day
Lodestone
5
Day
Sprint
($75K)
2 Day
Lodestone
2
Day
Sprint
($40K)
Tangible Takeaway: Innovation frameworks
Tangible Takeaway: Goal-setting dashboard
Weekly 60-min team consulting sessions for up to 6 weeks following offsite
Unmoderated validation testing with 50 participants
Clients Guided By Lodestone
Let's Capture The Lightning Together
*Fees do not include individual lodging and meals which are estimated at $350 / person / day.
Modus Lodestone Experiences are a breakthrough approach to transforming the way your business works and discovering new paths forward.
Facilitated by an onsite team of expert Modus Lodestone Guides, our Lodestone
Design Thinking Sprints help teams rapidly ideate and develop unique and scalable business solutions that generate real ROI:
Rapidly explore, decide, develop, and test real solutions with clear next steps
Build long-term team resiliency and creative capital around strategic priorities
Modus pre-Lodestone planning meetings and post-experience coaching ensure high-quality and actionable deliverables
Lodestone Offsites produce tangible takeaways (e.g. Draft OKR's, ROI Models, MLP [Minimum Lovable Product] Roadmaps etc.)
Leverage Modus expertise and resources to take your Post-Lodestone work from dream to deliverable
Immersion in nature, and the corresponding disconnection from multi-media and technology, increases performance on a creativity, problem-solving task by a full 50%.
-David Strayer
PhD / Professor of Cognition and Neural Science / University of Utah
Natural environments make us healthier, more creative, more empathetic and more apt to engage with the world and with each other. Nature appears to act directly upon our autonomic systems, calming us.
Florence Williams
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
At the end of each Lodestone Offsite Experience our team will process, synthesize, and package all generated assets and ideas in a way that best weaves into your workflow. We will articulate and memorialize individual and team commitments to bring the work forward and can also provide optional ongoing support for:
Meeting cadence & responsibilities plan
Internal storytelling support (e.g pitch decks or concept posters)
Validation testing
Prototype evolution
UX, strategic and engineering support
Build & deploy
Pulling It All Forward
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Ignite Team Lightning
Prepare
Collaborate
Iterate
Post-Lodestone coaching will expand your team’s capacity to remove obstacles, communicate effectively, work authentically, and execute impactfully on bold, new goals.
A customized Lodestone agenda gets the best minds in your business to forge deep connections, unlock creativity, and rapidly attune as a group to both shorter-term projects AND longer-term strategic objectives.
Lodestone prep meetings and planning help teams get together for distraction-free, team-attuned, and ecologically-forward offsite intensives that deliver Tangible Takeaways.
True elevated OKR work is meaningful, audacious, inspiring, actionable... and completed on time in a way that feels great. Centering inspiration and accountability and inviting authentic co-creation makes space for a thrilling shift: next-level planning that actually delivers next-level results.
Tangible Takeaway:
Strategy and development roadmaps
OKR Dashboards
Problem tree analysis
Storytelling support (e.g. internal pitch decks or concept posters)
Lodestone Experiences can be tailored to your organization's exact needs and requirements to solve for an array of challenges and opportunities:
OKR + Strategic Planning
In the landscape of lightning fast technological evolution, rapidly shifting audience behavior + expectation, and profound organizational shifts in priorities, responsibilities, and personnel, Digital Marketing must transform to become transformational.
Tangible Takeaway:
Brand strategy blueprints
Internal pitch decks
Campaign concepts
Storytelling and messaging frameworks
Digital Marketing
Unlock tools for navigating your organization beyond the cusp of discovery and into decentralized and blockchain-enabled development + storytelling opportunities.
Tangible Takeaway:
Foundational research reports
Key opportunity maps
Concept posters
Strategy and development roadmaps
Web3 Explorations
From effective conceptualization to strategic deployment, unite the right minds in your organization in the service of jumpstarting your best new idea.
Tangible Takeaway:
MLP (Minimum Lovable Product) roadmaps
Rapid prototypes
Project vision statements
Messaging frameworks
Launch playbooks
Burnout. Zoom fatigue. Remote office disconnect. No time. No direction. No vision... Let's transform that. Based on research-proven tools, and tailored to this global cultural moment, a Lodestone Sprint cuts through the noise to rapidly craft a new future for your business.
Tangible Takeaway:
OKRs
Product roadmaps
Pitchable concepts
Corporate agenda
Innovation frameworks
Connection and retention have never been more central to maintaining and growing effective, productive, and satisfied teams. Speak to your organization's complex challenges on an interpersonal + neurobiological level.
Tangible Takeaway:
Organizational culture baselines
Mission + vision statements
Culture transformation roadmaps Innovation management playbooks
Product Development + Launch
Design Thinking Sprint
Organizational Innovation
True elevated OKR work is meaningful, audacious, inspiring, actionable... and completed on time in a way that feels great. Centering inspiration and accountability and inviting authentic co-creation makes space for a thrilling shift: next-level planning that actually delivers next-level results.
Tangible Takeaway:
Strategy and development roadmaps
OKR Dashboards
Problem tree analysis
Storytelling support (e.g. internal pitch decks or concept posters)
Lodestone Offsites can be tailored to your organization's exact needs and requirements to solve for an array of challenges and opportunities:
OKR + Strategic Planning
In the landscape of lightning fast technological evolution, rapidly shifting audience behavior + expectation, and profound organizational shifts in priorities, responsibilities, and personnel, Digital Marketing must transform to become transformational.
Tangible Takeaway:
Brand strategy blueprints
Internal pitch decks
Campaign concepts
Storytelling and messaging frameworks
Digital Marketing
Unlock tools for navigating your organization beyond the cusp of discovery and into decentralized and blockchain-enabled development + storytelling opportunities.
Tangible Takeaway:
Foundational research reports
Key opportunity maps
Concept posters
Strategy and development roadmaps
Web3 Explorations
Burnout. Zoom fatigue. Remote office disconnect. No time. No direction. No vision... Let's transform that. Based on research-proven tools, and tailored to this global cultural moment, a Lodestone Sprint cuts through the noise to rapidly craft a new future for your business.
Tangible Takeaway:
OKRs
Product roadmaps
Pitchable concepts
Corporate agenda
Innovation frameworks
From effective conceptualization to strategic deployment, unite the right minds in your organization in the service of jumpstarting your best new idea.
Tangible Takeaway:
MLP (Minimum Lovable Product) roadmaps
Rapid prototypes
Project vision statements
Messaging frameworks
Launch playbooks
Connection and retention have never been more central to maintaining and growing effective, productive, and satisfied teams. Speak to your organization's complex challenges on an interpersonal + neurobiological level.
Tangible Takeaway:
Organizational culture baselines
Mission + vision statements
Culture transformation roadmaps Innovation management playbooks
Design Thinking Sprint
Product Development + Launch
Organizational Innovation
