Designing For Momentum.

Welcome to Kinetic Seeds

Welcome to our home.

We live at the intersection of design, innovation and behavior change.

Inside our walls we help organizations, philanthropies and community networks tackle complex educational challenges. Human principles of participation, co-creation and discipline drive everything we do.

Kinetic Seeds is an education design and innovation consultancy solving

PURPOSE-FUELED CHALLENGES

Our approach unearths powerful insights and opportunities generated by design-thinking, business model generation and lean development practices. Learning and outcomes from across our portfolio are typically carried forward and we purposefully work with partners who seek to both cross boundaries and transcend the limits of the current system. In our network, we are all driving toward the same goal – student success.

THREE CORE PRINCIPLES GUIDE WHAT WE DO

PUT PEOPLE AND THEIR UNMET NEEDS AT THE CENTER OF EACH AND EVERY DESIGN CHALLENGE.

We put our qualitative, human-centered research capabilities to work to frame a rich understanding of how people relate to and experience the world; deeply understanding patterns in behavior, motivation and habit.

Some of the items in the fridge:

qualitative research
insight development
opportunity identification
storytelling

FIND THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL + SOCIAL CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND AND BUILD MOMENTUM.

We look at human experiences within the context of the wider system; mapping touch points and existing institutional or system capabilities and services to human needs.

Some of the items in the fridge:

visual systems mapping
best + next practice alignment
experimentation strategies and roadmaps
business or organizational sustainability

MAKE THINGS TO THINK AND LEARN AND INVITE PEOPLE INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS.

Prototyping and participatory design are part of our DNA. With these methods, we help you invite a variety of stakeholders (including students!), to get involved in the design effort.

Some of the items in the fridge:

co-creation workshops and programs
iterative prototyping
MVP (minimal viable product) artifacts
evaluations, stress tests + community critiques

At the Helm

We are driven to create positive impact in everything we do.

President + Benevolent Troublemaker
Christine Flanagan
cflanagan@kineticseeds.com or @chrisflanagan

Inquisitive and an “intersectionalist” at heart, Chris’ career has focused on guiding institutional leaders, policy makers and philanthropies development of new learning and support models that transcend the limits of our current system. A consummate creative executive with a keen eye for branding and movement-building, Chris leads our strategy and production teams in establishing vision and roadmaps that drive success for both organizations and the students they serve. Read more…

Co-Troublemaker + Head of Research & Experience
Christine Costello
ccostello@kineticseeds.com or @xstine

Part sociologist, part designer, and part futurist, Christine is at her best when she can combine her obsession for understanding the human experience with opportunities to apply her innate skill of making connections—connections that inform new thinking and inspire change. In her 18 years as an experience designer, researcher and facilitator, Christine has helped organizations from a range of industry and social sectors to practice human-centered… Read more…

Why Kinetic Seeds?

We Never Give Up. Ever.

We need new learning and engagement models for meeting the diverse needs and interests of today’s learners. Models that transcend the limits of the current system. Models that are…

…predicated on principles of equity and equality,

…fueled by relationships of substance, and

…forged by the idea that learning can happen anywhere (and learners should get credit for it!).

These are the ideals that drive us here at Kinetic Seeds.

Here are just a few examples.

New academic delivery models to help students realize career success and degree attainment.

Next-generation public finance models that fund and support equity-focused innovation.

A (student designed!) reinvention of a state system's student service delivery model.

New narratives reshaping the experiences of future entrepreneurs.

Building regional capacity for education collaboration across public + private sectors.

The design and launch of new organization to advance the competency-based education field.

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Our Latest Troublemaking Posts

News, views and insights across the education and workforce development divide.

Transforming the student experience through career education and exploration

Jul 15 2017

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Over the past 8 months, Kinetic Seeds has been working with Jeffrey Selingo, author, Professor of Practice/Special Adviser, Arizona State University, and…

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Jul 08 2017

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I’m hitting the road in September to speak at the Close It Summit in Chicago from September 25-27. This national conference, hosted…

Bring on the Data: How might we create new measures to help us assess the value of education and communicate this value to students, parents and educators?

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In the last decade, as college tuition has spiraled ever upward and median family income has fallen, students and their families are…

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If you’re grappling with a key education challenge, considering the design of a new experience or model, or just want to talk shop, give us a call or drop Chris a note.

401.359.1979

cflanagan@kineticseeds.com

Designing For Momentum.

Welcome to our home.

We live at the intersection of design, innovation and behavior change.

Inside our walls we help organizations, philanthropies and community networks tackle complex educational challenges. Human principles of participation, co-creation and discipline drive everything we do.

PURPOSE-FUELED CHALLENGES

THREE CORE PRINCIPLES GUIDE WHAT WE DO

PUT PEOPLE AND THEIR UNMET NEEDS AT THE CENTER OF EACH AND EVERY DESIGN CHALLENGE.

FIND THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL + SOCIAL CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND AND BUILD MOMENTUM.

MAKE THINGS TO THINK AND LEARN AND INVITE PEOPLE INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS.

At the Helm

We are driven to create positive impact in everything we do.

We Never Give Up. Ever.

We need new learning and engagement models for meeting the diverse needs and interests of today’s learners. Models that transcend the limits of the current system. Models that are…

…predicated on principles of equity and equality,

…fueled by relationships of substance, and

…forged by the idea that learning can happen anywhere (and learners should get credit for it!).

These are the ideals that drive us here at Kinetic Seeds.

Here are just a few examples.

New academic delivery models to help students realize career success and degree attainment.

Next-generation public finance models that fund and support equity-focused innovation.

A (student designed!) reinvention of a state system's student service delivery model.

New narratives reshaping the experiences of future entrepreneurs.

Building regional capacity for education collaboration across public + private sectors.

The design and launch of new organization to advance the competency-based education field.

The Kinetic Seeds Network Is Charged By A Select Group of Changemakers

Our Latest Troublemaking Posts

News, views and insights across the education and workforce development divide.

Transforming the student experience through career education and exploration

Chicago Here We Come! Let’s Talk The Future of Career Services

Bring on the Data: How might we create new measures to help us assess the value of education and communicate this value to students, parents and educators?

That was interesting. Tell me more.

Kinetic Seeds

Recent Posts

Contacts

Designing For Momentum.

Welcome to our home.

We live at the intersection of design, innovation and behavior change.

Inside our walls we help organizations, philanthropies and community networks tackle complex educational challenges. Human principles of participation, co-creation and discipline drive everything we do.

PURPOSE-FUELED CHALLENGES

THREE CORE PRINCIPLES GUIDE WHAT WE DO

PUT PEOPLE AND THEIR UNMET NEEDS AT THE CENTER OF EACH AND EVERY DESIGN CHALLENGE.

FIND THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL + SOCIAL CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND AND BUILD MOMENTUM.

MAKE THINGS TO THINK AND LEARN AND INVITE PEOPLE INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS.

At the Helm

We are driven to create positive impact in everything we do.

We Never Give Up. Ever.

We need new learning and engagement models for meeting the diverse needs and interests of today’s learners. Models that transcend the limits of the current system. Models that are…

…predicated on principles of equity and equality,

…fueled by relationships of substance, and

…forged by the idea that learning can happen anywhere (and learners should get credit for it!).

These are the ideals that drive us here at Kinetic Seeds.

Here are just a few examples.

New academic delivery models to help students realize career success and degree attainment.

Next-generation public finance models that fund and support equity-focused innovation.

A (student designed!) reinvention of a state system's student service delivery model.

New narratives reshaping the experiences of future entrepreneurs.

Building regional capacity for education collaboration across public + private sectors.

The design and launch of new organization to advance the competency-based education field.

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Our Latest Troublemaking Posts

News, views and insights across the education and workforce development divide.

Transforming the student experience through career education and exploration

Chicago Here We Come! Let’s Talk The Future of Career Services

Bring on the Data: How might we create new measures to help us assess the value of education and communicate this value to students, parents and educators?

That was interesting. Tell me more.

Kinetic Seeds

Recent Posts

Contacts

The Kinetic Seeds Network Is Charged By A Select Group of Changemakers