Our Department works with clients to identify different ways to create value in the future. What kinds of value you might be wondering? Our assumption is that the future needs to be radically different than the present, and that most of the ways organizations create present value are contributing to the social and ecological degradation underwriting the polycrisis. Without explicit disruption, the legacies of inertia will continue to reproduce those harms through further iteration. These cycles of iteration not only fail the innovative solutions test, they also normalize the status quo and harm, further undercutting the very abilities for organizations to make broad leaps and to build regenerative relations.

As David Graeber beautifully suggests, “the ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.” Our Department team dedicates ourselves to helping others create transition pathways that move beyond recognition and inclusion and into shared freedom. There is no universal transition but rather thousands upon thousands of micro transitions that are situated within personal, organizational, and communal sites that have their own specificity defined by histories, values, and momentum. 

The Department of Disruption creates rooms for teams, divisions, and organizations to create plans and actions in accordance with the changes they are gesturing toward in the world. Together we map interventions across horizons, experiment, iterate, and measure. This enables teams to evaluate and visualize their effectiveness over time—not just on their organizations, but also within the broader systems they seek to influence. We welcome the chance to be your partners in reshaping the ways you disrupt.