We Advise Leadership Teams Through High-Stakes Transformation.

We work with CEOs and leadership teams to remove the constraints slowing growth, align decision-making, and build systems that scale.

We help organizations install a core Design DNA—a way of thinking, deciding, and operating that unlocks creativity, performance, and long-term growth.

Step into the future confidently:
Unblock. Unlock. and Level Up.

Featured Portfolio of Work

Combatting Police Brutality with Design Thinking & Leadership Coaching

In partnership with Amnesty International, we capacitated on-the-ground leaders to prototype systems of change and re-strategize their approach to influence and control

Products that Transform

Development and enrichment experiences for leaders and their teams of explorers

The Education DesignShop, Darte's hallmark design sprint methodology

Transforming novice designers and building leadership capacity through design

Products that matter, insight that sparks innovation

From observation insights to hardware implementation and everywhere in between

The OpenMind::OpenArt Gallery

An Award-winning Studio on the Future of Mental Health & Wellness

Selected Clients we've Played with

Locally

- The Office of the President of MIT

- The Credit Suisse Group

- EXPLOStudio

- Koru Strategy

- MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab

- The MIT Edgerton Center

- Beyond the Agency

- OpenMind::OpenArt Gallery

- The MIT Teaching Systems Lab

- Seven Arrows Academy

-Meadowbrook K-8 School of Weston

- Greater Lawrence Technical School

- Boston Society of Architects

Internationally

- Amnesty International

- Moonshot Academy, Beijing

- Catalyst Education Lab, Hong Kong

- Mingdao High School, Taiwan

- Mujeres Solares, Nicaragua
- Estácio de Sá, Rio de Janeiro

- KLE Technological University, India

- Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Colombia

- TEDx, Brasil, Praça do Santos

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“Jessica is an inspiring and transformative leader in the realm of Design Thinking. Not only does she provoke curiosity, encourages you to challenge the status quo, she creates an environment with her enthusiasm and passion to reimagine the way we work with a high energy, engaging and enthusiastic approach to facilitation. I learnt so much from her workshop it has enabled me to completely reinvent how I drive outcomes in my business environment and ensure that Design Thinking and engaging our Users is at the foundation of all that we do.”

Featured Portfolio of Work

Selected Clients we've Played with

Locally

Internationally

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

— Jennifer Hewit,

Head of Cognitive and Digital Services,

Major Global Finance Organization

Tools, Strategies, and Design Spotlights from Around the World—

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