Workplace Strategy
Innovation Workshops
Design Thinking
I make your workplace work for your workforce and your business. It’s a productivity asset, not a cost center.
I guide your innovation process as a facilitator or teach you the innovation techniques I honed over a decade working at Google.
I find innovative solutions for your biggest business challenges using human-centered approaches and creative and analytical thinking.
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Workplace Strategy
Turn space, culture and systems into performance drivers for your company.
Don’t have a vision for how, where and when your company should work? Is culture taking a hit with hybrid? Are you planning on growth, but reluctant to take a new lease? I can bring intentionality to your decisions and creativity to your solutions!
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Innovation Workshops
Leverage my Google Sprint Maestro experience and bring me in as a facilitator for your next multi-day workshop.
Or build your team’s innovation muscle by signing up for my Innovation Techniques Workshop where you’ll learn how we do it at Google.
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Design Thinking
Bring me in for a human-centered approach to problem solving that combines creative and analytical thinking to develop innovative solutions.
My rigorous and creative approach has cracked the hardest business challenges and can tackle yours too, including in your sector!
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Fractional Design Leadership
I bring executive design leadership and strategic guidance to organizations that don’t yet need (or can’t yet afford) a full-time design exec.
I will define your design strategy, build/scale your design team, establish design operations, bridge leadership gaps, and drive cross-functional collaboration.
About
What sets us apart?
Back at Google, my director had a stack of pdf decks from all the top consultancies, each one costing >$1m, each one gathering dust. They looked professional, and were filled with good ideas, but these firms had no accountability to the measurable impact of their proposals.
Sam Slater Consulting is different - we were born out of a frustration with impractical proposals, and unaccountable impact. We know there’s a difference between launching and landing a rocket, that’s why we stick around to see it through. It’s not a punch list, it’s part of the scope. After all, if an idea can’t be executed in the real world, it’s not a good idea.
Sam Slater Constuling, LLC is a design strategy and innovation leader with 15+ years of experience helping organizations turn complexity into clarity.
Google (10 years): design strategist, innovation manager, UX designer, product strategist, and global workplace design lead—solving cross-functional challenges at one of the world’s most complex and ambitious companies.
Earlier work: consulting on urbanism projects, founding a design education non-profit, and shaping strategy in an architecture firm.
Today: Sam partners with startups, local businesses, and corporate teams as a workplace strategist, innovation consultant, and fractional design leader—bridging Silicon Valley rigor and the agility and focus of an independent consultancy.