2024 - ∞
Nurturing Shared Connectivity as Bridges To Bright Futures
thinkerer labs continues its mission to help the world's brightest better shine, with a renewed focus on fostering ecosystems of shared growth to scale impact and inspiration.
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Feedback Review & Audits
For when you're looking for a fresh eye but an experienced mind with 12+ years of diverse industry exposure across established mega-corps as well as scrappy, cutting-edge startups. Available to review designs, flows, architecture, launch checks, pitch feedback etc. to align standards for decision-making peace of mind.
Interim Leadership : Ops / Design Director, Emerging Tech Markets Liason
Need a little extra help or someone to quickly dive in, hold down the fort, and set up structure during a transition? Pitch the project / role and see how we can help or find people who can.
Team Culture Programs & Mediation
Benefit from our years of training in top FAANG tech industry HR and data compliance, managerial coaching programs, creativity & productivity programs, design-engineering mediation, and field learnings from elite leaders. Co-create custom team workshops to better translate company priorities into shared goals across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
Knowledge Interview Call
Skip the consulting network surcharges and schedule a call directly to hear unique perspectives and subject area expertise, sans sensitive disclosures.
Ambassadorship & Talks
Open for select panels, speaking, hosting office hours, and sponsored events / collaborations.
HISTORY
2011 - 2023
12 Years of Building and Learning, Bright Memories from Silicon Valley and Beyond
thinkerer labs inc. traces its roots as an independent one-woman consultancy, founded by design technologist
Katherina Nguyen in 2011.
Imagined as a special ops, full-service software design and product strategy studio, the company had a productive initial run, working with over 100+ teams globally in advisory as well as long-term building capacities.
Highlights include :
Stanford StartX Stanford Accelerator
DataCollective Venture Capital
Harvard Kennedy School / Center for International Development
Meta Reality Labs
Citrine Informatics
Codepath.org
Cloudphysics (acquired by Hewlett-Packard)
USPS (via Peloton Technologies)
VSSR / Fulbright University Vietnam