Hello.

Strange Attractor is the design studio of Tim Gasperak. I’m an experienced and accomplished design leader who guides mission-driven organizations in taking a systemic and strategic approach to problem solving in response to seemingly intractable challenges.

I work with a diverse range of public and private institutions including national and state governments, NGOs, local communities, and private companies to improve their ability to navigate the ambiguous and complex contexts in which they operate.

I use various long-term participatory change approaches such as collective sense-making, futures and foresight, transition design, and participatory design methods to equip communities to make sense of the world, increase their adaptability, and explore and make their preferred futures real.

My clients include Fondation Botnar; Diatoms of North America, funded by USGS, EPA, and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder; Kaiser Permanente’s national innovation team; GE Healthcare; Abbott Diabetes Care; OPTI Medical Systems; Donate Life America; National Co+op Grocers; Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Alþingi (Parliament of Iceland); FDIC; and others.

Before Strange Attractor, I was Creative Director at Adaptive Path – one of the earliest user experience design consultancies – and I’m a former board director of the Bateson Idea Group, whose mission is to further the exploration of the ideas of the late Gregory Bateson.

I received my BSID in Industrial Design, magna cum laude, from The Ohio State University, and I live in Boulder, Colorado.

Hello.

Strange Attractor is the design studio of Tim Gasperak. I’m an experienced and accomplished design leader who guides mission-driven organizations in taking a systemic and strategic approach to problem solving in response to seemingly intractable challenges.

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