When the bets are big and the stakes are high, our clients come to us for strategy, design, implementation, and scaling.
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. We can help you, too: Contact us to discuss your organization’s bold ambitions.
Strategy
Advisory, research, and sensemaking to separate signals from noise and bring confidence to decision-making.
A few examples of our strategy work
- Measuring the impact of an improved experience on the vaccination rate: How a global pharmaceutical evaluated a potential opportunity.
- Making a smarter bet on digital solutions: How a Fortune 500 company aligned customer needs with business goals.
- Defining a $77 billion food safety problem: How the FDA developed a problem statement to guide a successful prize competition.
Design
Inventing and planning for high-impact programs, products, services, and experiences.
A few examples of our design work
- Designing technical assistance that supports innovation and innovators: How the Rural Tech Project created time and space for convening, collaboration, and connection.
- Empowering patients and physicians to make informed decisions: How a global pharmaceutical rapidly prototyped a potential hardware and software solution.
- Designing a national challenge to inspire transformational STEM learning experiences: How the U.S. Department of Education brought space missions to high schools.
Implementation
Delivery, production, and administration to turn great ideas into great realities.
A few examples of our implementation work
- Bringing new solutions and innovators to lead poisoning prevention: How the Lead Detect Prize incentivized both incumbents and new solvers to develop accessible and improved blood lead tests.
- Incubating a national cybersecurity teacher professional development initiative: How CTE CyberNet strengthened cybersecurity education in high schools.
- Standing up the Tool Foundry accelerator: How a Luminary Labs initiative, funded by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Schmidt Futures, expanded access to science by advancing low-cost, high-quality, and easy-to-use tools.
Scaling
Building capacity, partnerships, communities, and systems to enable long-term innovation and multiply impact.
A few examples of our scaling work
- Funding and accelerating innovative suicide prevention solutions: How VA’s Mission Daybreak catalyzed investment in a problem that matters.
- Bringing new edtech solutions to adult learners: How the Future Finder Challenge reimagined career navigation and helped close a critical workforce-readiness gap.
- Developing local education ecosystems to support national workforce priorities: How the Middle Grades CTE Accelerator empowered communities to deliver high-impact teacher professional development programs.