Consulting

Lauren Sinreich is a strategic designer, systems thinker, qualitative researcher, communicator and coach. She has nearly two decades of experience delivering designs, stories, strategies and advice that are ethical, value-driven, and illuminating.

Currently, Lauren is Senior Principal of Design Research at Coforma. Previously: she led the values-driven strategic design consulting practice, Whole Innovation and Design; she was Director of Enterprise Design in Bank of America’s Global Information Security organization, where she pitched, built and led an in-house design strategy team. Prior to that, she worked as an independent consultant for a number of years. In her work, she has developed the strategy for winning multi-million dollar initiatives; designed and carried out deep and meaningful qualitative research; delivered impactful, community-oriented messages and stories; and worked across sectors across industries, including energy efficiency, finance, social innovation, information security, sustainable development among others; and has worked on projects with organizations such as the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation, American Express, the Kauffman Foundation, UNESCAP, and New Media Ventures.

Lauren serves as an advisor Pragmatic Insititute’s Design Advisory Board, and as a mentor and coach to people through programs including TechStars’ Sustainability Accelerator in partnership with the Nature Conservancy, New Museum’s NEW INC, U of Denver’s Project X-ITE and Complexity University’s Gigatonne Challenge.

Lauren holds a Masters of Environmental Studies from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and a Bachelors in Communications and Global Studies from Fordham University in NYC. She is currently based in Boulder, CO. For more information, review the sample projects in her portfolio below, visit her LinkedIn profile, or get in touch with her at lauren [at] wearewhole [dot] co.