Creating positive, equitable change through a human-centered approach to innovation, learning, and organizational design.
The Promise
By bringing experience and leadership in research, strategy, education, and design, we help clients build internal capabilities and improve their external offerings through a deeper understanding of their most important asset: people – those they serve, those with whom they collaborate, and those they employ.
Humanizing opportunity.
Why do we center our work on people? We envision a world where access to opportunity is democratized — not dictated by background, socio-economic status, or networks. We work with clients who believe in this vision, and we help them realize it across three integrated services lines.
Innovation
Across sectors, successful brands and service providers are using human-centered design in cross-disciplinary teams to innovate services, improve lives, and build loyalty. Against a backdrop of rapidly evolving tech and a constant barrage of new entrants in the competitive landscape, we help clients master their markets by thinking into the future to meet the needs of their unique stakeholders. What’s more, we work to build capacity within our clients’ operations so they can sustain their edge for the long term.
Learning
Few things breed opportunity like equitable access to quality learning and development. We work with clients to curate expertise and build curriculum to develop, upskill, and cultivate teams at all scales. But it is not just about the curriculum — our learner-centered approach means delivering knowledge in formats and venues that adapt to the learner’s needs and learning styles. Through a strategic approach to engaging talent pools and aligning individual development with business strategy, we help clients build learning programs that serve current and future generations.
Transformation
The truth is, innovation is disruptive. New services push the limits of operations and capacity. Cultivating talent through learning programs changes culture and removes advantages from traditional powers that be. Transformation is challenging but complacency is lethal. With a systems mindset and an understanding of cultural dynamics, we partner with clients over the long term to help them adjust to new realities and build intrinsic adaptability into their organizational DNA.
But what do we actually do?
In practice, LaFargue is a network of skilled collaborators forming integrated teams for approaches that match the challenge at hand. This network is comprised of purpose-driven innovators who believe in working across sectors to help companies and organizations define their landscape, develop vision, drive innovation, and build internal capacity through a deeper understanding of key audiences and stakeholders. The depth of experience across this network comprises a sophisticated knowledge base of human learning and development, the complexities of organizational change, the importance of managing risk with experimentation, the dynamics of internal culture, and the evolving nature of consumer behaviors.
These are our specialties and our passions. We look forward to partnering with you.