The Clarity Clinic
I guide your innovation process as a facilitator or teach you the innovation techniques I honed over a decade working at Google.
Workplace Strategy
I make your workplace work for your workforce and your business. It’s a productivity asset, not a cost center.
Design Thinking
I find innovative solutions for your biggest business challenges using human-centered approaches and creative and analytical thinking.
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The Clarity Clinic
Helping small business leaders move from stuck to sure.
The Clarity Clinic in-person workshops teach business leaders the tools they need to get clarity and feel confident to solve their most pressing business problems.
The secret sauce? Proven methods and being in a room with other business leaders to explore ideas, network, and learn from each other.
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Workplace Strategy
Turn space, culture and systems into performance drivers for your company.
Don’t have a vision for how, where and when your company should work? Is culture taking a hit with hybrid? Are you planning on growth, but reluctant to take a new lease?
I bring intentionality to your decisions and creativity to your solutions!
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Design Thinking
Bring me in for a human-centered approach to problem solving that combines creative and analytical thinking to develop innovative solutions.
My rigorous and creative approach has cracked the hardest business challenges and can tackle yours too.
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Fractional Design Leadership
I bring executive design leadership and strategic guidance to organizations that don’t yet need (or can’t yet afford) a full-time design exec.
I will define your design strategy, build/scale your design team, establish design operations, bridge leadership gaps, and drive cross-functional collaboration.
About
What sets us apart?
Back at Google, my director had a stack of pdf decks from all the top consultancies, each one costing >$1m, each one gathering dust. They looked professional, and were filled with good ideas, but these firms had no accountability to the measurable impact of their proposals.
Sam Slater Consulting is different - we were born out of a frustration with impractical proposals, and unaccountable impact. We know there’s a difference between launching and landing a rocket, that’s why we stick around to see it through. It’s not a punch list, it’s part of the scope. After all, if an idea can’t be executed in the real world, it’s not a good idea.
Sam Slater is a design strategy and innovation leader with 15+ years of experience helping organizations turn complexity into clarity.
Google (10 years): design strategist, innovation manager, UX designer, product strategist, and global workplace design lead—solving cross-functional challenges at one of the world’s most complex and ambitious companies.
Earlier work: consulting on urbanism projects, founding a design education non-profit, and shaping strategy in an architecture firm.
Today: Sam teaches The Clarity Clinic and partners with startups, local businesses, and corporate teams as a workplace strategist, innovation consultant, and fractional design leader—bridging Silicon Valley rigor with the agility and focus of an independent consultancy.