So you're working on a cool project and you want to invite great people to help you build it better, scale it and have more meaningful impact? Is your team looking for insights, creative production and better practices to collaborate and successfully launch new products/services? Are you looking to revamp your personal site and find clarity on your online messaging?
Hola, I can help you clarify the essential and create elegant design solutions.
I'm, Mari Sierra, experience designer, a hybrid creative/strategist bridging business, design and facilitation to help lead teams to make meaningful change happen. I design, host and produce transformative and creative experiences that help you and your team ignite insights, imagination and collaboration.
SERVICES
Human Centered Research: Consulting for global strategic innovation firms as facilitator, researcher and brand strategist. Leading consumer psychology labs to produce actionable insights and inform products built with Human-Center-Design ethos.
skills: designing immersive multi-stakeholder engagement workshops, qualitative ethnographic interviews, synthesis and analysis, persona and archetype creation, aligning teams with insights to produce prototypes.
Strategic Foresight: Contextualizing insights through multidisciplinary lenses (global systems thinking, critical theory, philosophy, psychology, ecology and futurism) to produce media & engagement strategies to inspire plausible futures.
skills: Global Perspective (lived-worked in 7 major cities/ traveled to 25+countries), Global Trend Analysis, Environmental Scanning, Futures scenario development, Causal Layered Analysis, Systems Maps
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Event planning: Hosting and producing conferences, dinners, retreats, educational travel and innovation workshops for co-creation, civic engagement and strategic future planning.
skills: talent curation, itinerary, agenda & team management, budgeting, marketing outreach, invitation design, participant engagement, press management
Workshop facilitation: Leading innovation immersions, hackathons, un-conferences, co-creation labs, educational travel experiences.
skills: World Cafe, Open space, Design Thinking, Rapid prototyping, Improv theater, Presencing, Art of Hosting, Next Plays
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Creative concepting & brand strategy: Creating appealing visual universes to communicate the emergence of a vision tailored to the right audience.
skills: creative visioning, brand strategy, identity implementation, moodboarding, brand archetypes, manifestos, concept decks, editorial design
Content & storytelling: I curate and produce articles, podcasts and blogging on news, culture and society. My aim is to find insights and identify patterns on how we behave as humans and where are we are heading as a culture in the midst of a technology revolution.
skills: observe, collect, design and spread relevant 'memes'. Social media content production & management, community building & engagement.
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Leadership development: Helping teams improve their communication, productivity and creativity, by uniquely bridging presence and mindfulness principles, improv methods with integral leadership theory and startup management methods.
skills: mindfulness meditation guide, improv games, emotional check-in, conflict mediation, non-violent communication, developmental psychology frameworks, integrative wellness based habit coaching, Theory-U Presencing Institute
Curation of 'glocal' talent: assemble highly talented multidisciplinary creative teams through my global connections to exceptional creative & entrepreneurial networks.
skills: public relations, networking to identify, attract & motivate highly effective creative talent (design, arts, nonprofits, engineering, science, technology).
I live in between Berlin, Mexico or San Francisco. I'm a cross-pollinator and thrive in multiple cultures.
I typically work on 1-6 month projects. I offer design & strategy consultancy on daily - weekly basis too.
"Mari is an extraordinary creator. She uses her design thinking training and skill to create possibilities that no one else could. She jumps straight to the deepest questions--and she listens, carefully, quietly, while you find the answers for yourself. She has the appropriate business/entrepreneurial pedigree - Ashoka, California College of the Arts, international business experience. But what makes Maricarmen stand out is the way in which she has made her own path. And it is THAT ability that enables her to guide you on your path."
- Leah Hunter , Idea Couture, Writer Fast Company
"Mari brings wonderful thinking and energy to work. Her design-thinking strategy is rigorous and everything she does is designed in good taste. She always brings a cadre of wonderful and talented friends to each project."
- Mike Parsons, Factory / LaunchPodium
Want to attend one of my workshops or read about our collective shift in consciousness?
SIERRAyMAR a creative laboratory bringing 'inner wisdom' for the modern life.
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