Discover the simple question that awakens empathy, creativity, & inclusion.
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✅ Reveal hidden barriers that are missed in surveys and focus groups.
✅ Uncover honest insights from lived experiences.
✅ Strengthen trauma-informed and inclusive practices.
✅ Spark divergent thinking that helps you design programs, services, and resources that make an impact.
TRUSTED BY NONPROFITS, FACILITATORS, AND CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS SOCIAL SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND HEALTHCARE
Professional Development & Training
Learn to listen, design, and work differently
Learn practical ways to incorporate lived experiences and co-design with the people and communities you serve, not just for them. Available as professional development, team workshops, leadership sessions, or organization-wide training, online or in person. Discover simple strategies to introduce The Shoelace Question with your own clients and families.
Grant Strategy & Support
Stand out to funders with lived experiences
Strengthen grant proposals by meaningfully incorporating community voice, lived experience, and Human-Centered Design. Dr. Jackie Bee provides personalized grant writing support to help you stand out to funders with a human-centered and participatory approach to program design and implementation.
Co-Design Facilitation
Turn listening into understanding, and understanding into action
Bring an experienced, trauma-informed facilitator for community listening sessions, staff and stakeholder conversations, strategic planning, Human-Centered Design workshops, and rapid design sprints. Uncover the why behind people's experiences, and turn what you learn into ideas you can test, improve, and put into action. The goal isn't just a successful session. It's to leave your team better equipped to listen, learn, and continue the work.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
“HIGHLY SKILLED PROFESSIONALISM AND MULTI-FIELD EXPERTISE WITH A POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND A SENSE OF FUN.”
Dr. Jackie Bee will lead your team on a journey of creativity, inclusivity, and co-design.
Jackie Bee, PhD, is a keynote speaker, human-centered design leader, and social entrepreneur who helps people and organizations reimagine the stories we tell ourselves, and how we listen to each other’s stories, through collaboration and creativity, so that we can grow, connect, and create change.
Dr. Bee will guide you through The Shoelace Question, an accessible starting point for your team to explore, share, and communicate new and innovative ideas. Her interactive programs incorporate actionable strategies that use creativity, divergent thinking, and playfulness to transform how you listen and co-create with your community.
With a research background from Princeton University and Vanderbilt University, she brings a playful spirit of growth mindset and human-centered innovation to nonprofits, community foundations, conferences, medical centers, and corporate clients through new approaches to connecting, listening, and making an impact.
GET READY TO INSPIRE YOUR TEAM AND YOUR COMMUNITY!
