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.
 

Award Winning Expertise

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Our Values: Honesty. Transparency. Excellence. Collaboration.

Our Story

@AmericanPublicHealth

  • 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

@MozillaFest London

  • Sarah Sharif is a British-American entrepreneur and an award-winning innovator who catches fire when she ideates. Sharif founded Experimental Civics, works at the Board of Innovation, and volunteers at Women in Innovation. Designing an an equitable, people-first future from her home in Manhattan.

@Oxford University

 

“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

Diagnostic Innovation

Risk & Strategy

Eary-stage Ideation

Cognitive Workshops

Futures Thinking

  • We discover the source of problems and use data to guide your next efforts.

    Through our audit and data diagnostic approach, we’ll uncover the core challenges to overcome. We’ll also highlight the opportunities for impact whether your organization is starting an innovation team or launching a new strategy.

  • Innovation is about dancing with risk. We’ll help you identify how your strategy can be practical and elastic without hindering success.

  • We embrace difference and know how diversity in thought produces results. In our workshops around cultural dimensions to design thinking methodologies, we’ll help your organization succeed as a modern cognitive engine.

  • If you’re not thinking about tomorrow, then you won’t make it. Our beginner level workshops help our clients learn about identifying trends, signals, and how to scan the opportunities for the future.

  • Our foundational offering is supporting hackathon efforts from complete direction to consulting on strategy, design, marketing, and recruitment. We’ve hosted and worked on over 50+ hackathons and we’ve developed our own recipe for success.

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+

supported hackathon events with partners including hosted

91.7%

of participants find the methodologies used to build solutions effective.

Life Sci Hack

@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 Hack

@Global 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.

Highlights