Let’s rebuild civic institutions and public trust.
The Orange Bureau is a civic transformation firm focused on organizational change and civic trust.
We help civic leaders build organizations and institutions that are ready for change, responsive to people, and worthy of trust.
Our Services
Civic Org Transformation
Future-Ready Your Organization
What needs to change to be better positioned for the future? This is a rapid analysis and foresight engagement that helps leaders understand how their organization is positioned for the future. It identifies where current systems, assumptions, values, norms, or incentives bring about opportunity or create risk.
Build Responsive Systems
How does this organization’s way of operating need to evolve? This is a design-led engagement that translates strategy and values into the structures, roles, and ways of working that actually produce the desired outcomes.
Rebuilding Civic Trust
Experiential Democracy Futures Workshops
What could democracy look like—and what would it take to build it? These experiential foresight workshops help leaders and communities explore possible and preferable futures for civic life, institutions, participation, and public trust. Through scenarios, immersive experiences, and backcasting, participants identify the choices, capabilities, and changes needed to move from the democracy we have toward the democracy we want.
Turn Change into Momentum
How do we get people to embrace and move forward with change? This engagement provides practical support for leaders carrying complex change—focused on equipping leaders to move organizations forward while preserving trust, energy, and credibility.
Community-Centered Design Research
What do people actually experience—and what does that tell us about what needs to change? This research engagement helps leaders understand how people experience their organizations, services, policies, and public systems. It surfaces lived experience, unmet needs, points of friction, and sources of trust or distrust to identify where change can make the greatest difference.
Public Policy Co-Design Labs
What would we create if the people most affected by a policy helped design it? This collaborative engagement brings communities, practitioners, and policymakers together to better define problems, develop solutions, and test new approaches. It turns lived experience and implementation knowledge into more responsive, workable, and trusted policy.
Adapt Responsibly to AI
How do we thoughtfully integrate AI into our organization without losing sight of our people, values, or mission? This engagement helps leaders navigate AI-driven change by identifying where technology can create value, understanding its implications for people and ways of working, and building practical approaches for adoption that are effective, responsible, and sustainable.
