Propelling Organizations
Forward As Innovators

Experimental Civics™ offer a boutique experience that propels organizations forward as innovators who can pave their competitive advantage for 2050.

We use a curated "work-with-you" model to equip executive and business leaders with future-proof scenarios and grow portfolios with six-figure concepts. We honor focus and privacy in delivering success, so we offer limited availability quarterly.

Award Winning Expertise

Trusted by

By Numbers

 91.7%

 32+

unique hackathon events supported since 2017

50+

innovation efforts supported from client workshops to ideation sprints

clients report methodologies used to build solutions are more effective than past activities

Our Story

  • Experimental Civics™, an innovation institute and consultancy, was founded in 2017 after years of extracting profitable business ideas and solutions for the human bottom line.

Our Founder

@KXAN Austin

  • Sarah Sharif, a British-American innovator and futurist based in Manhattan, influences the future from 2030 to 2100. She is passionate about shaping people-first futures and has consulted for clients in many verticals from consumer goods, healthcare to fashion.

@MozillaFest, London

@Social Innovation with HRH Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, SXSW

@Nordic Innovation New York, NYCxDesign

@AmericanPublicHealth, Philadelphia

@ATXHack4Change, Austin

Curated Services

Applied Human-Centered Design for Pharmaceutical Leaders

Do you lack stickiness with your payer audiences, struggle with patient adherence in clinical trials, or desire to implement a more human-centered process? We can guarantee higher impact and success with a elevated personalized approach using design research

  • Whether prepping for outbound B2B sales or elevating your patient services, we'll help you get closer to the people you wish to influence, serve, and engage.

    We run design research, in-house ideation workshops, and consult on experimentation for our clients. We also build capabilities for your team.

  • We provide a private Manhattan suite at Legacy Records, accommodating up to 10-14 guests with catering options. Reservations are made on a case-by-case basis specifically for executive client groups. Our space is designed to foster collaboration, offering a conducive environment for high-level discussions and decision-making.

Strategic Foresight for
Fashion Executives

Is your growth stagnating or are you searching for new opportunities to boost your strategy? We can help build up your inner futurist to craft resilient strategies

  • We cover both basic & advanced methodologies for our clients including:

    - 2030-2050 Signals & Trends
    - Drives of Change (PESTLE)
    - 4 Future Scenarios

    We deliver a curated list of fashion-forward signals, trends, scenarios, and drivers of change (PESTLE) for executives to consider.

    We start the day with learning about the latest signals and trends, drivers of change, and industry implications, break for lunch, and return to explore applications to future initiatives.

    Clients walk away learning a new methodology, challenge status quo assumptions on the market, and have the chance to apply thinking immediately to their own planning and initiatives.

  • We provide a private Manhattan suite at Legacy Records, accommodating up to 10-14 guests with catering options. Reservations are made on a case-by-case basis specifically for executive client groups. Our space is designed to foster collaboration, offering a conducive environment for high-level discussions and decision-making.

2025 Strategy Add-On:
Future-proofing

Want to add futures thinking to your strategic planning for next year? We can help you get the gears turning

  • We offer a 2-hr add-on experience to your 2025 strategy planning. We'll take your existing strategy and drive a PESTLE exercise with your team to jumpstart your planning.

@Conservation Optimism, Oxford University

@Dubai Future Forum

@SXSW

Innovation Expertise

We consult on a range of innovation projects to ensure stickiness and result-driven impact: concept ideation, product-market-fit, validation sprints, rapid experimentation to product launch support.

@Innovate South, Keynote Speaker & Panelist

@Google Fiber

Past Global Innovation Programs

Our founder, Sarah Sharif, is passionate about nature, climate change, and science through her biology degree. In 2019, she partnered with her brother, Suliman Sharif, on a series of life science hackathons hosted in Austin and London through a Mozilla grant. In 2020, after pivoting her initial vision for a Guinness World Record hacakthon event in Austin to online at the start of the Global COVID-19 pandemic, she partnered with over 70 organizations to host a 2-day global hackathon with 385 participants from 31 countries.

Life Sci Hackathon

@Austin & London 2019

  • 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 Hackathon

@Global Online 2020

  • 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.