Helping people design the cultures that power modern creativity.

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Feeling creatively stuck? Struggling to spark breakthroughs in your community? Is your culture lacking collaboration, support, and inspiration?

Janos weaves a culture of problem-solving throughout your organization by designing engaging, collaborative, community-member-centered initiatives and authentic placemaking.

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Janos develops insights, recommendations, and initiatives to amplify the diverse creativity within your community, fostering a culture of innovation and new solutions.

Whether you're seeking to empower your team, enhance community engagement, or develop innovative programming, Janos brings the expertise to help it happen.
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Having personally meaningful and creative experiences that increase imagination and community engagement is the core of being human.

Through his work, Janos seeks to design dynamic environments that inspire collaboration, drive social interaction, and support community members' diverse needs and aspirations. 
His approach emphasizes the importance of equitable creativity as a catalyst for building strong, connected communities that thrive on shared goals and mutual respect.

With extensive experience in collaborative placemaking and community engagement, Janos develops equitable, creative empowerment solutions for community centers, libraries, laboratories, schools, medical centers, maker spaces, and studios.

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Speaking

Book Janos to speak to your community about empowering individuals, leaders, and organizations to realize the initiatives they aspire to create by uncovering and nurturing the creative uniqueness of the communities. Janos blends wit, expertise, and hands-on experience with a bold, exploratory approach to guide audiences in designing supportive, innovative cultures.

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Community Design Coaching

Janos provides long-term coaching and project direction, specializing in cultural design and guiding the development of community events and creative spaces for sustainable impact and growth. With expertise in revitalizing creative spaces, Janos ensures your space evolves into a dynamic, thriving hub that engages all community members.

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Workshops

In live or virtual 90-minute sessions, Janos will unpack your goals and culture, helping you identify and implement a strategy to effectively design a creative community, foster camaraderie, and inspire, ultimately elevating your creative space. Workshop details below:

  • Janos helps communities weave a creative mindset into their culture by ensuring whole-person safety and community-driven confidence to uniquely explore entrepreneurial and innovative pursuits, diverse viewpoints, and continuous feedback leading to groundbreaking solutions.

  • Janos cultivates frameworks that promote inclusivity in every aspect of operations. His strategies ensure that all community members' perspectives, voices and needs are included and addressed, creating a balanced and fair environment for growth

  • By applying equitable community design strategies, Janos helps organizations design unique community-driven initiatives that match it’s own collective creative thinking to effectively attract and retain diverse new community members and partners.

  • Janos understands the power of participatory environments. He helps design initiatives where community members actively contribute, gaining genuine intellectual ownership with their insights and creativity to effectively define the culture they need.

  • Recognizing that safety is crucial for creativity to thrive, Janos prioritizes both physical and mental well-being. He creates spaces where community members feel secure expressing their whole selves, ensuring that no barriers hinder their creative processes.

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Events and Gatherings

Janos works with your organization to design equitable strategies and develop, build, and run unique community-driven events and gatherings that match your collective creative thinking to effectively attract and retain new community members and partners.

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Unlock your community’s potential.

These free creative guides have actionable insights and tools to help you design inclusive, innovative spaces and programs. Whether you're just starting or looking to enhance your current work, these resources will inspire new ideas and strategies for success.

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Safety

From leading universities to community organizations, we love partnering with institutions that share our passion for creativity, equity, and innovation. Together, we’re shaping the future of collaboration and cultural transformation.

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