Services
Our philosophy is deep rooted in enabling teams make fast decisions based on evidence. Very often we are able to do this by applying concepts and philosophies from Innovation Frameworks, Experimentation, Rapid Prototyping & Design Sprints that was born in Google by Jake Knapp. We use this to accelerate results our clients see in all facets of our work - yes not everything is a workshop; rather the mindset of how we work to drive results.
You can learn more about how we apply Design Sprints to fast track how teams and businesses can innovate here.
Strategic Consulting
We work with you on specific project or a business challenge to provide you with strategic consulting and leadership services.
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Product Strategy
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Launching a new product or service offering
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Organization Design
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Customer Discovery
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Market Research Insights
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Optimize Your Agile Workflow
Fractional Product & Growth Executive
We enable you to add Product Management & growth expertise without the delay, cost, or commitment of hiring full-time Product & Growth Executive. We work fixed number of days/week to help you ramp up in a number of ways:
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Define product management and growth frameworks
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Hire, recruit and build the right team
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Establish strategic roadmapping and prioritization
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Focus on Problem Discovery and solving right problems
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Establish shared understanding of product vision
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Build a culture of product led growth
Bosky is very talented and driven, and brought a wealth of knowledge to our team. Bosky was able to quickly learn the ins and outs of our company and the market we were in, and provided valuable product insight and direction so that we could ensure we were focusing our efforts in the right area. She helped our team understand the product life cycle better and implemented tools and processes that we can use to help ensure we are prioritizing ideas and strategies correctly, and that the products we decide to develop are valuable to our customers.
Marie Claire Gabriel, Senior Projects & Operations Manager, Neurio
PROBLEM SOLVING WORKSHOPS
We lead and facilitate innovation and strategic planning workshops to help achieve overall alignment.
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Rapid validation & Prototyping
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Design Sprint for innovation, experimentation
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Creative decision making & problem solving
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Leadership & Team Strategy Planning + Offsites
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Team & Executive Alignment
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Customer Journey Mapping
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Customer Persona/Archetype
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Usability Testing
STRATEGIC ADVISORY & COACH
We help individuals, teams and companies with strategic sounding board and act as accountable coaches and advisors on a number of critical areas such as:
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People Growth & Career Coach
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Product Coach
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Growth Coach
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Business Coach
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Organizational Design
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Growth Levers
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Validating Business Ideas
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Strategic Planning
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Burnout & Holistic Wellness Strategies
Bosky’s workshops helped us identify our assumptions and come up with very practical tests to validate them systematically, Each session left me feeling like I had learned something valuable.
Arti Bhakta, Product Manager, Peace Geeks
Our Distinct Advantages
Customers choose Spark To Substance over and over again - We love to simplify the innovation chaos, humanize the entire experience and most importantly make problem solving fun and extremely creative and collaborative journey. Our distinct advantages are:
Achieve Cross Functional Alignment
We work to help you achieve alignment and shared understanding of the problem using strategic tools, a lot of empathy and perspective mapping
Accelerate your path to achieving business outcomes
Our proprietary frameworks and approach to business, innovation and growth engines help you FAST TRACK your path to achieving outcomes. We help you do this through our relentless strategic thinking, creative problem skills and decision making frameworks while balancing the holistic essence of your people and culture
Completely eliminate painful meetings
We engage the right members of your team and facilitate thoughtfully, strategically and with empathy
Achieve your creative confidence
We help you challenge the status quo and see options that are often not visible at the first glance of a challenge. We use our proprietary tools, playbooks and over 18 years of experience working in silicon valley, Vancouver and other countries to elevate the creative genius in your teams
Reduce Innovation Risk
We use data and evidence to make the hard decisions and help you do the same. We help you make calculated decisions and continuously validate and test ideas, often 30-40 in a day
Sustain healthy workplace rituals
We work with you to reframe your business challenges and create fertile workplace culture sprinkled with thoughtful rituals to sustain your innovation journey even without us. We work with your teams to help set up just those right tweaks to enable you to DIY in the future