BOOSH
Noun, adjective
1: Word mimicking the sound of an explosion. Used to express
awesomeness, to punctuate reality when situations call for it.
Appropriate for victoriousness, excitement, mental collisions,
being dumbstruck, awestruck, and fantastic explosions.
BOOSH works with impact organizations to chart a path toward innovative problem-solving.
BOOSH’s methodology gets organizations better aligned with their own community members. This might be their customers, clients, employees, board members, donors, volunteers, or any other stakeholder they’re trying to engage. The resulting insights lead to breakthrough ideas and impact.
We help clients who:
Feel stuck doing things the way they’ve always been done
Aren’t seeing the results they need or want
Want to attract new users and constituents to their organizations
Need creative problem-solving and new ideas
Are looking for better ways to engage or support their constituents
Want to improve their current offerings to deepen their impact
Why BOOSH?
We’re a different kind of organizational consultant.
We will get to know you and your organization’s goals personally. We then determine how to best apply the human centered design philosophy to the opportunity at hand, resulting in a process that combines our best innovation tools with your unique interests and organizational culture.
We have the skills, tools, experience and personal touch to keep your team engaged throughout the process.
About Our Founder, Rena Dulberg
I’VE ALWAYS HAD THE EMPATHY GENE, LINGERING ON OTHERS’ EMOTIONS LONG AFTER OUR ENCOUNTER HAD ENDED.
So it wasn’t a surprise that I found a way to make empathy part of my career choice. Before starting BOOSH, I enjoyed a robust career in all things nonprofit and social impact. From my nine-years in higher education—where I honed my expertise in leadership, civic engagement, and program management—to driving change in international development agencies and even running a national nonprofit start-up accelerator, the social innovation arena has always been my passion. I eventually became certain what I wanted to do: leverage the powerful combination of innovation and empathy to help organizations become more effective.
In 2017, I offered to facilitate a few workshops for friends and former colleagues to temporarily fill my urge to "geek-out" on the ideas about which I’m most passionate—leadership, innovation, Human Centered Design, social entrepreneurship, etc. After a few sessions, I noticed that my workshop participants were doing something amazing as they absorbed the ideas I was sharing: one-by-one each person touched their 10 fingers to their head and then opened their fingers toward the sky in an explosive gesture. I realized just how powerful these moments were—when people got great ideas, learned something important, realized they could radically change course for the better, or were plain blown away. I knew sharing these tools with individuals and organizations on a larger scale was what I would do next.
BOOSH was born.
I went on to earn my certification from the Stanford D School as a Design Thinking facilitator, and have been using Human Centered Design to support innovative nonprofit organizations ever since.
BOOSH Collaborators
While Rena has a hand in everything, some projects benefit from having additional, specialized team members to assist. Our collaborators are talented professionals with expertise in a variety of fields including professional facilitation, empathy interviewing, human-centered design, geographic context, industry affiliation, executive experience, coaching, and program evaluation. There is no doubt we will put together the right team for you and your project.