10 Facts About Insight Labs

Insight Labs is a pro bono strategy development platform for non-profit organizations, non-governmental organizations and government agencies.

An Insight Labs Lab is a structured, three-hour strategy session for a non-profit organization, government agency or industry.

Insight Labs staff choose participants from the creative, corporate and academic world for their strategic and creative thinking.

Insight Labs holds degrees in Government from University of Texas and in Journalism from Ohio State University, and prior to co-founding Insight Labs worked as a reporter, a political campaign strategist, and public affairs strategist.

Insight Labs was a founding partner of the new media agency DIGITAAL and has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.

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Insight Labs is the author of a book, I Have a Strategy, due to be released in February 2013 by Jossey-Bass publishers.

In 2009, the Insight Labs conducted their first two sessions in their current format, the first with One D, a confederation of Detroit non-profits, to address the gap between local jobs programs and corporate HR interests.

In 2010, Insight Labs collaborated with Manifest Digital to create The New Architect, an ongoing web series following a free-flowing, talk show format that focuses on topics related to human interaction in the digital age.

In 2011, the Insight Labs was a founding partner of the first UX for Good event, a two-day design competition wherein user experience and visual designers, along with writers, visual artists and non-profit organizations, were teamed to develop solutions to systemic social issues, such as unemployment, urban violence, and public education.

Insight Labs has been criticized for not producing actionable insights.