Strategy By Design Coaching

Embed a new way to work.

Overlap’s design and creativity coaching helps your team learn and apply design thinking skills. Overlap’s coaches can support your creative development and provide project guidance for better outcomes.

An Overlap coach will expand your knowledge of design thinking and integrate new practices into your work. You’ll draw on expert support as you encounter real-life problems and opportunities in your work.

Let us help you better leverage principles for leadership, creativity, and human-centred design in your day-to-day.

How it works

Overlap’s coaches work 1:1 or in small groups with organizational or team leaders by asking cogent questions and introducing frameworks and exercises to support them to overcome obstacles and  achieve goals.

The Design Process

Process coaching helps further your design thinking practices. On-going coaching support after a training session, to help you apply and deepen your understanding of design thinking tools, processes, and frameworks.

Wayfinding and Navigating Complex Problems

We use our design expertise to guide organizations through problems they are currently facing. Through our coaching, we help apply design tools and principles to projects in-progress. By combining our design expertise with your organizations' internal knowledge and context, we help achieve better results. 

Design Project Management

Project management coaching supports the incorporation of agile project methodology across design teams or organizations. Agile support teams get the most out of design-led projects.

Design Leadership

Our creative Leadership coaching uses design to support organizational objectives for leaders and Design Teams. Strategies may include conducting needs assessments, assessing personality and conflict styles, and techniques for improving communication.

Staff and Community Engagement

We help organizations identify key interest holders and build a plan to engage with them. We recognize that trust is a crucial component of engagement research. By helping organizations leverage their relationships with key interest holder groups and guiding them through engagement planning and research activities, we allow them to leverage relationships they already have to gain crucial insights into their key interest holders. 

Custom Coaching Programs

Contact us to discuss your needs and how we can design a custom coaching program for you.

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