Explorations

Stockholm, Sweden

A trek across a glacier with an executive team, a meeting with the most preeminent scientists on global warming, and discussions with international business leaders helped our client see the critical interdependencies between business and the planet.
Snowmass, Colorado

Against the backdrop of Snowmass, Colorado, we engaged in discussions with leaders in energy and atmospheric research. We inquired with an aikido master into how personal sustainability affects a leader’s ability to manage stress and chaos in high-performance environments and engaged in demonstrations of the relationship between leadership and global sustainability.
South Bronx, New York

Sustainable South Bronx gave us and an international retailer the rare opportunity to engage in their work with NYC's urban, low-income communities. In doing so we helped shift mindsets around the necessity of green jobs – all through an appreciation of environmental justice and urban revitalization.
Shanghai, China

In one of the fastest growing, changing, and pivotal places for our planet's health, we went behind the scenes with our client. Through collaboration with government officials and representatives of China's NGOs and visits to communities with polluted water-ways, our client was inspired to launch a multi-million dollar effort to improve corporate operations in China.
Mississippi Delta, Louisiana

A land, sea, and air tour of the Bayou and meetings with local leaders helped our retail client discover business opportunities to solve issues of land loss, invasive species, and disappearing fisheries. The result: creation of a pilot for a local sourcing strategy that removed transportation miles while creating a new product that directly supports the local economy.
Florida Keys

With our client we dove to Aquarius, the only underwater research laboratory on the planet to examine the role oceans play in our personal and professional lives. We collaborated with marine biologists, senior teams from NGOs and leaders of local businesses to develop insight around long-term sustainable interactions with the oceans.

By a camp fire. Or inside a board room.	At Blu Skye, we believe in the power of relationships to yield value generating business results. To that end, we build into our process occasions to bring key stakeholders together. Sometimes, this involves a trip down a river. It also can involve high-impact, multi-stakeholder working sessions. The objective is the same: we roll up our sleeves together to realize our shared ambitions for system change.

System in the Room Create a shared vision. Get months of work done in days.	Instead of focusing on solving a problem, or optimizing for an individual, we focus on optimizing the entire system for shared benefits. Our approach is built on innovation and breakthrough solution designs. We create inflection points as we work through challenges by focusing on outcomes. In the end, we seek to change the rules of the system. To do this we identify the relevant key players and bring them together. Our consultants lay the groundwork for a shared understanding of the existing system, facilitate breakthrough discussions, and initiate rapid prototyping activities that focus on leveraging the strengths of the individuals and working toward a common goal. In one instance, we designed a profitable, low carbon dairy industry. In another, we designed a national system for battery recycling. In still another, we generated a shared vision for a system-wide overhaul in the way magazines are sold. The results of each were surprising; the solutions have endured beyond the summits. What seemed impossible at the outset became tangible and achievable.

Confluence Mostly sunny with a 99% Chance of Insight.	The Confluence is an annual event hosted by Blu Skye. We bring thought leaders, business leaders, cultural figures (usually musicians), and NGO leaders to work together to overcome obstacles. Always on a river, and always about new possibilities, these trips build trust, reveal shared goals and yield insight into common challenges, with no blackberries in sight. On these trips you will find… NO Assistants, Conference Rooms, Blackberries, Power Point Presentations, Spreadsheets, Analytics or Pie Charts. JUST Fulfillment, Vigor, Excitement and Excellence. An Experience of a Lifetime with Peers and Fearless Leaders. This model has worked before.

Executive Field Trips “A mind that has stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.” - Albert Einstein	Over the course of 1-3 days, these custom-tailored field trips are designed to bring clients to unusual places, to see and experience unusual things, and to meet and speak with unusual people… people we like to call positive deviants. We bring clients to these places to help them build the courage to act and lead in business. To see is to believe; to believe, to act.

Stockholm, Sweden

Snowmass, Colorado

South Bronx, New York

Shanghai, China

Mississippi Delta, Louisiana

Florida Keys

By a camp fire. Or inside a board room.

Create a shared vision.Get months of work done in days.

Mostly sunny with a 99% Chance of Insight.

“A mind that has stretched toa new idea never returns to its original dimensions.”

- Albert Einstein

By a camp fire.
Or inside a
board room.

Create a shared vision.
Get months of work done in days.

Mostly sunny with a
99% Chance of Insight.

“A mind that has stretched to
a new idea never returns to
its original dimensions.”