Propelling Organizations Forward As Innovators
Our boutique experience propels organizations forward as modern innovators through think tanks, internal innovation committees, hackathons, and forward-thinking strategies.
Our Values: Honesty. Transparency. Excellence. Collaboration.
Our Story
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Experimental Civics, an innovation institute and consultancy, was founded in 2017 after years of extracting profitable business ideasand solutions from organizations for the human bottom line.
Our Founder
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Sarah Sharif is a British-American entrepreneur and an award-winning innovator who catches fire when she ideates. Sharif founded Experimental Civics, works at ZS, and volunteers at Women in Innovation. Designing an an equitable, people-first future from her home in Manhattan.
@OxfordUniversity
“Even the greatest feats in innovation & science can start with a mistake. Don’t underestimate where your next catalyst comes from. I love surprises.”
— Sarah Sharif
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Diagnostic Innovation
Eary-Stage Ideation
Futures Workshops
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We deliver step-by-step plans on how to mature your innovation organization and answering what leaders need to drive results.
Through our initial audit, we’ll conduct immersion interviews and assess organization innovation maturity.
We’ll then share a 12-month and 24-month runway with tactics to drive growth, productivity, and expertise. -
We deliver 1-3 day workshops to spark new ideas at quantity and with quality. Through our cognitive and simulation exercises, we can tease out the genius from your team.
We also deliver multi-day hackathon events to take ideas to MVPs with a business case. -
If you’re not thinking about the future today, then you’re too late. As leaders and innovators, we have an opportunity to shape ideal futures for impact.
We provide beginner level workshops to help our clients learn about how to identify trends, signals, and how to scan the opportunities for the future.
We coach leaders on how to imagine 10 years ahead, stretch their thinking with plausible and possible scenarios, and lastly, engage new strategies for their business.
By Numbers
67+
Forbes 2000, Fortune 500, and NGO global partners
3K
in the Experimental Civics community globally representing over 33 countries
32+
Hackathons hosted across the United States and in London
200+
projects hacked
50+
innovation efforts supported from client workshops to ideation sprints
91.7%
innovation participants report methodologies used to build solutions effective
Life Sci Hack
@Austin & London 2019
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Our global health matters period. Life Sci Hack is a 2-day global traveling hackathon bridging the fields of software engineering, innovation, technology, and the life sciences through Interoperability, Big Data, Education, AI, and Software Toolkits.
Two events have been hosted in Austin and London partnering with organizations such as Francis Crick Institute, Benevolent AI, Luc Hoffman Institute, Synthace, Mozilla, and many others.
Capsule Hack
@Global 2020
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Bienvenue sur Capsule. कैप्सूल में आपका स्वागत है. Bienvenido a Capsule. 歡迎來到膠囊. Willkommen bei Capsule.
Our earth is facing a climate crisis and the time to act is now. We are passionate about formulating ideas and enacting change which led to the creation of Capsule Hack, a 2-day virtual conference and hackathon addressing the global climate crisis through inspiration and action. 400 participants representing 31 countries hacked forward 44 ideas for our planet.
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