Most collaboration problems aren't people problems.

They're design problems. Cultivating collaboration is the Idea Farm method for fixing that.

Cultivating Collaboration is the practice of intentionally building four conditions that allow groups to succeed.

Most organizations prepare plans, agendas, strategy. Very few design the experience, i.e. how people will work together to execute. That gap is where collaboration design makes all the difference.

The four conditions of collaboration

Every one of them needs to be addressed for collaboration to work well. Every one of them can be deliberately, thoughtfully designed.

The practitioner loop.

How we design and cultivate collaboration in every session and project.

  • "Her approach is dynamic and innovative, gets you thinking differently about your day-to-day and your future actions and work to help you walk away with immediately applicable actions.

    Head of Operations

  • "Tamara helped my group do in three hours what we have been trying to do in two years by facilitating conversations that led to a shared vision for the year ahead."

    NGO Leader and Impact Analyst

  • "She’s perfectly skilled to speak design and facilitate collaboration between business and engineering audiences, proven to handle the tough customer in the room, and quickly adapted to the nuances of our corporate culture."

    Design and UX Leader

  • "Ninja-level facilitation that resulted in hundreds of good ideas, new levels of clarity, cooperation and creativity, unprecedented multidisciplinary interplay — and most of all, fun. Serious. Productive. Fun."

    Executive Director of Innovation Strategy

  • "It is not easy to draw out news ideas across cultures. Tamara absolutely nailed it with our group. Her ability to personally connect with the large group and drive us to, frankly, game changing ideas was absolutely remarkable."

    Division President

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