Building a better future.
Together.
Discover solutions to your greatest challenges using mind-opening, transformational processes you haven’t even imagined. Yet.
I’m on a mission to reimagine problem-solving processes.
Feeling stuck? Want to be more mission-driven and creative in your community, company, or policies? Are you searching for tools to better anticipate and prepare for future risks and unknowns? By using participatory processes that maximize engagement, creativity, and meaningful connection, I help you build resiliency with real-world solutions to your greatest challenges.
If we want to build better products, policies, organizations, and communities, we must shift away from the old, top-down strategies. Participatory and regenerative design strategies are based on the idea that how we design can be as transformative as what we design, so that what we create allows both human and natural systems to thrive.
Inviting end users to be active participants in the process yields the most lasting, impactful, and emergent outcomes. When we listen deeply and ask the right questions, problems become opportunities and challenges yield potential.
Ways to work with me:
Strategic Planning | Workshop Design & Facilitation | Public Speaking
Case Studies
Credit: Tidewater Capital
The Hall
Case study of stakeholder engagement, creative placemaking, community building, public speaking, workshop design and facilitation
Credit: Freedom West Homes
Freedom West
Case study of community design, stakeholder engagement, workshop development and facilitation, and public speaking
Credit: ReConnect Rondo
ReConnect Rondo
Case study of participatory design, workshop facilitation, community input design
“Ilana's effective, engaging, and transformative process will broaden your horizons to help you see beyond short-term problems to long-term potential. By skillfully weaving together futures thinking, participatory design, and working with complexity, Ilana facilitates the discovery of your innate creativity so you are empowered to design better outcomes, products, services, and policies that make a meaningful difference.”
— Jane McGonigal, New York Times bestselling author, world-renowned future forecaster, and Director of Game Research & Development, Institute for the Future
