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WHO NEEDS US?

Thoughtly Crew is the ultimate group of creative thinkers for hire. Whether you are a facilitator, director of an innovation team, marketer or involved in product development, the opportunities for The Crew to inspire you and enhance your creative projects or motivate your teams are vast.

We are hired by:

Facilitators (We are not facilitators, and you get better results when you use a trained innovation facilitator for your project), innovation teams, qualitative researchers, PR firms and other in-house departments such as, new product/services, branding, R&D, advertising and marketing...

We help our clients break new ground with product and service ideas, line extensions, packaging, platform-building, positioning and namestorming. Our outspoken, experienced and energetic agents will bring the fresh brainpower to help your facilitators reach new heights in all creative, goal-oriented encounters.

TESTIMONIALS

We have worked in categories that include gourmet foods and frozen foods, sports drinks and fruit juices, consumer electronics, wine, beer and other spirits, health and beauty aids, home improvement and bank, insurance and gas station services.  The list goes on and on.  Following are statements from some of the clients and facilitators that we have had a great pleasure to work with:

"Thoughtly Crew is one of the most innovative, professional and competent creative teams I have ever worked with. Their strengths lie in their ability to merge raw creativity with strategy, consumer insight and traditional marketing principles. I have the highest regard for their capabilities and the value they have added to my project!" 

Linda Shieh
Senior Business Unit Director, Innovations
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.

"In my experience with Thoughtly Crew I found them to be professional and involved with an empathic attitude towards the job. 
....very holistic and profound view on consumer attitudes, thinking and behavior patterns and complete understanding of complex conceptual issues with a high intellectual capacity to break it down to simplicity and clarity!"

Franz Hänsli
Chairman
RCG Research Consultants, Zurich Switzerland

"The thoughtly Crew, is a lively, energetic, and creative group that showed their flexibility by adapting their skills to address the quarterly meeting of the QRCA Chicago Chapter. The session held at The Catalyst Ranch in downtown Chicago was effective in showing qualitative marketing researchers new ways of thinking in how to bring added value to their clients." 

Gail Fudemberg
GRF Marketing, Ltd., Chicago, IL

"When the call comes from a team in need of a real creative jolt- we think -Thoughtly Crew!  More than just agents of great ideas, they’re cutting- edge fresh and always inspirational with their playful and original thinking; they’re contagiously brilliant!   We’re always delighted to see them work here at Catalyst Ranch.  It’s a great fit!" 

Bobbie Soeder
Explorer-Matchmaker (V.P. of Sales & Mktg.)
Catalyst Ranch, Chicago,IL

"Thank you for your contributions to this week’s success! Your ideas were great, as were your client skills and overall support and flexibility. I much appreciate everything you did and look forward to working with Thoughtly Crew again." 

Anne Manning
Founding Partner
The Innovation Practice Charlestown, MA