We believe now is the time to come together across division to advance our communities, lives, businesses, and systems to promote prosperity and healthier, happier, and more purposeful lives.

We believe creatives are catalysts for economic growth, social cohesion, resilience, innovation, and cultural renewal.

Engage us to engage your organization or community!

B Global x Design can help you grow and create more cohesion in your community, supply chain, organization or academic institution.

B Global x Design is a social enterprise focused on collecting and promoting global best practices in creative economies, innovation, community development, and social sustainability/ B Corporation practices. Engage us to support you in:

  • Creating more profitable supply chains aligned with “S” or “B” corporation values in emerging economies.

  • Engaging polarized or diverse members of your community to create policy platforms, improve the delivery of community services, improve your economic growth, and create strategies to attract innovation and creative industries.

  • Developing trade shows focused on sustainable products, B Corporation services and products, and global creative arts, food, fashion, design, and innovation.

  • Coaching businesses in emerging or under-represented economies, in the US and globally, in creative industries, including advertising, digital, and AI.

  • Developing comprehensive strategies to build innovation hubs to foster growth in developing countries.

  • Using a multi-stakeholder approach to develop creative economy roadmaps/ strategy, while sustaining the multi-stakeholder fora (education, business, nonprofit/ civic, media, and government).

  • Leading workshops, conferences and knowledge hubs on community development and the creative economy.

Our Services

  • Creative Economy Roadmaps, Placemaking, Policy, & Ecosystem Development

    We support the development of creative ecosystem roadmaps for your country, region, city, or small town. From squirrels in Almaty to design fairs in Detroit, we can advise on placemaking and strengthening creative industries

  • Talent, Workforce, Incubators, Innovation

    We build innovation workforces using the quintuple helix model (media, education, industry, government, nonprofit/ social enterprises) to increase the influence of local design and creativity as an impetus for local industry and social program development.

  • Ready-for-Market, Domestic & Export

    We support creatives and designers to support other industries find new markets through better packaging design, trade show readiness, R&D, entry into tourist markets, branding, market analysis, online shopping platforms, and more.

  • Branding, Marketing, Human-Centered Design, Advertising

    Strengthen the capacity of local business to support other industries and public officials to better understand needs, communicate messages, design products & programs, and reach new markets.

  • Social Connection and Social Impact

    Evaluate and support ways to increase cohesion and impact within communities, supply chains, marketplaces, etc. through HCD, increasing fun social activities (music, film, art, first Fridays, hiking groups, etc.), and creating stronger networks. This can include supporting cafes, event planners, retailers, hotels, community planners and others in creating local subcultures around local foods, music, art, or traditions.

  • B Global Café - Strengthening Global Creative and Design Industries & Networks

    B Global Café (forthcoming) is a multimedia platform we are inviting creatives, designers, changemakers, and those involved in the creative economy, to join and contribute their work, join with others in the network for collaboration, provide thought leadership, and have a platform to bring products and services to new audiences.

HOW WE WORK

B Global by Design is not your typical consulting and community engagement enterprise. At the engagement outset, you are assigned a consultant specializes in integrative (human-centered) design for social impact who will work with your team and internal/ external stakeholders to fully understand your needs and co-design our project. Throughout our engagement, we use various tools to engage stakeholders (even reluctant ones), facilitate feedback sessions, and deliver.

B Global by Design is building a membership structure and seeks to become the global resource on best practices in community development, stakeholder-led policy development, innovation economies, and creative economies. We seek members and partners to co-sponsor design/creative competitions, provide grants and revolving loans for creative enterprise, provide scholarships, contribute to our multimedia forum, host networking events, host peer-to-peer exchanges, and more.

B GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP

Are you a social sustainability advisor? A design, branding, marketing, or advertising executive or business? A film, music, art, or publishing executive or business? Are you an academic in an arts or design field? Do you specialize in AI or digital arts/ design? Are you an impact investor? Are you part of your town or city’s government, downtown development authority or related institutions? Or a federal or state official? A donor? A maker or innovator? Please consider membership with B Global x Design!

As a member, you’ll have the chance to contribute to thought leadership through stories, speaking, blogs, interviews, and events. Enjoy opportunities for paid services and collaborative projects, with the freedom to choose your involvement level. You’ll receive discounted or free pricing to conferences, workshops, trade shows, and trade missions. You’ll receive exclusive newsletters and updates on funding opportunities, grants, competitions, and more. Membership is free in 2025! Get in on this emerging enterprise now!

Executive Volunteers and Consultant

Volunteering with B Global by Design allows you to be part of a groundbreaking initiative where creativity is the engine driving economic, social, and cultural transformation. You can ignite change and make a real difference with the skills you already have. If you’re interested in empowering local creatives, promoting long-term economic and social impact, contributing to global development goals, and fostering mutual understanding and cultural exchange, fill out the Executive Volunteer form. B Global by Design follows a collaborative process to ensure volunteers are matched with projects that align with their expertise and the needs of our partner communities. Fill out the form today and we’ll be in touch shortly about how you can make a positive impact around the world. We also maintain a database of consultants for longer-term projects where paid consulting is more appropriate. When you sign up, we will reach out to you with volunteer and consulting positions.

B GLOBAL CAFE & NETWORK

Are you a global artist or professional in dance, theatre, film, music, storytelling, food, art, and others. Please send us an email at creatives@bglobalxdesign.org and tell us about yourself, and how we can feature you in one of our online concerts, storytelling events, blogs, podcasts or other.

The purpose of the B Global Café is to bring creative industries and design from under represented markets to new global audiences, encourage collaboration, and promote cultural exchanges. Our features might include insights on cacao growing and processing, olive oil tastings, fashion shows, animation, gaming design, photography, music, and more. We are eager for artists to join this network, and hope to create communities among those who have participated in past exchange programs. We hope to soon launch a strategy to grow this network - stay tuned!