Human-centered collaboration

Design facilitation and strategy for social impact

Zahler Design provides creativity training, visual facilitation, and strategic design using serious play for meaningful results.

Key Services

TRAINING to INSPIRE

Spark Creativity

Learn techniques to unleash innovation and harness collaboration

VISUAL FACILITATION

Create Clarity

No more boring meetings! Make action plans and smooth processes to unlock business potential.

STRATEGIC CO-DESIGN

Unstick Strategy

Launch new services, transform systems, and take action on your strategic plan

TRUSTED BY

You have too much at stake to play it safe.

I’ll help you create a space where your team is safe to play.

TAKE A FRESH APPROACH

Experience the power of participatory design to pursue extraordinary opportunities, nurture equitable connections, and address longstanding and systemic challenges.

Zahler Design partners with organizations building more creative, equitable, and vibrant communities

Arts organizations

Social enterprises

Nonprofits and Foundations

Conveners and Organizers

See the results

  • Envisioning a restorative justice summit experience filled with purpose and action

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  • Telling a story of collective impact for arts funding

    See the report

  • Beyond the stage: a retreat to align business operations

    How they did it

  • Nailing positioning and business models as a new nonprofit

    See the process

  • How XPLANE expanded a successful consultancy by creating an academy

    Follow along

  • Introducing Design Thinking to a century-old manufacturing company

    See the strategy

“Kim is definitely a trusted design doula. Instead of just providing a solution, we’re doing the work together. She pulls the ideas out of my head and guides me through the process of putting structure to them. And in the end, I’m ready to bring my own business to life.”

Shiree Dyson
Founder of Sage & Needles nonprofit providing sewing, design, and fiber arts training to Oakland, CA-area youth

Photo by Kitoko Chargois, courtesy of Equity | Impact Center