Luminary Labs helps private-sector, philanthropic, and government clients launch groundbreaking initiatives across four focus areas: the future of work and education, the future of health, scientific discovery, and infrastructure.

Strategy

Advisory, research, and sensemaking to separate signals from noise and bring confidence to decision-making.

We serve as trusted thought partners for visionary leaders balancing near-term expectations with long-range planning. Our strategy work often includes research, advanced field work, ecosystem mapping and environmental analysis, and facilitated convenings with multidisciplinary stakeholders to deliver fresh insights.

When helping clients address complex problems in complex industries, we start with the question “what does wild success look like?” To help organizations place big bets on the future, we build scenarios around opportunity areas, define problems, develop decision-making frameworks, and help guide investment and funding decisions.

Design

Inventing and planning for high-impact programs, products, services, and experiences.

We believe most choices are design choices, and that successful design contributes directly to the thoughtful transformation of organizations and industries. We design and develop large-scale programs — such as public-private partnerships, incentive mechanisms, funds, and accelerators.

To help our clients bring ambitious visions to life, our design work includes a range of activities — from systems and program design to rapid prototyping, facilitation, and experience design.

Implementation

Delivery, production, and administration to turn great ideas into great realities.

Smart slide decks are nice; successful programs are even better. We help our clients “make it real” by standing up groundbreaking programs. We are experts at programmatic execution, air-traffic control, and knowing when to pivot or iterate in line with strategic objectives.

To deliver results for our clients, we operationalize and launch new initiatives — from pilots to multiyear programs. This implementation work can include augmenting teams, administering open innovation programs, standing up internal innovation teams, accelerators, technical assistance, boot camps, and live events.

Scaling

Building capacity, partnerships, communities, and systems to enable long-term innovation and multiply impact.

Our work has shaped markets and catalyzed systems, resulting in groundbreaking research, the formation of new companies, investment of capital, and development of new solutions. Our scaling activities include building an evidence base, defining and developing new ways of working, and building culture and collaboration norms.

To enable transformative outcomes for clients and their broader ecosystems, we facilitate partnerships and strategic alliances, deliver post-program support and technical assistance, build communities of practice, and engage internal champions and external networks.