Our approach

 

Current Works is a collective of service designers, strategists, researchers, systems thinkers, and coaches, each with 15+ year’s experience in our chosen fields. Led by founder Phillippa Rose, we reframe your problems from a human perspective. 

We help you listen better: through research and engagement

New opportunities and ideas come from the people who matter most – users, stakeholders, your team. Let them set the direction through engagement, research and testing.

  • Ethnography

    Participatory research

    Stakeholder engagement

    Horizon scanning

    Systems mapping

    User research and testing

    Service Design

    Speculative design

    Data analysis

 

We build your capability: through coaching and facilitation

Reframe how you see the big issues affecting your organisation. Shift mindsets and grow skills through leadership coaching, company-wide training and targeted workshops.

  • Theory of Change development

    Accredited Lego Serious Play facilitation

    Team building: operations and ways of working

    Agility and innovation methods bank / toolkit

    Learning programme design: online, hybrid and face to face

    Training and coaching in human centred design and innovation

    Leadership development and coaching

 

We accelerate your innovation: co-designing solutions with you

Making big leaps in short, controlled bursts. Innovate together through a bespoke co-design process – arriving at real, working solutions, fast.

  • Co-designing to solve live briefs

    Strategy and envisioning

    Programme and policy co-design

    Visual communication

    Strategic road mapping and business modelling

    Coaching to support implementation

Our philosophy 

From one-day workshops to year long projects, we apply the same philosophy: 

Academic rigour, real world application:

Harnessing personal curiosity and critical reflection to develop learning organisations. 

Designing with you, not for you:

Meeting you where you are, and so get you where you want to be. Empathy is essential to us. 

Enabling a positive legacy:

Strengthening your capability. The best outcome is when you don’t need us anymore.

 

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