About Ignited Word
We’re an intrepid, inventive, consulting firm that loves to work on tough assignments and believes creativity is the answer to many ills.
Our Vision
We envision a social sector that is abundantly creative and fearlessly imaginative, for the betterment of people and planet.
Our Mission
Human creativity is boundless; our mission is to tap it for the greater good. We bring organizations multi-disciplinary power tools that help them lean into their creativity to innovate, stand out, and maximize their impact.
Learn more about the values that guide us.
Read our origin story, The Foxes and the Frozen Red Lake.
Explore our clients and read what they have to say about working with us.
“...she had a hunch that the social sector, with its garb of scientific proficiency and rationalism, needed more beautiful language–language that would lure with its bright words, brassy and iridescent words, or simply words that did not arrive dead on the scene...”
—From The Foxes and the Frozen Red Lake, Ignited Word's origin story
the world is filled with potential ideas that could germinate into improved societal conditions—if we stirred our imaginations. At Ignited Word, we believe in the power of human creativity and seek to help organizations draw it out for greater social and environmental good.
Like some vast warehouse of seeds
To ensure that we are bringing the most powerful combinations of concepts, tools and expertise to our clients, we are intellectually omnivorous and consume content from across disciplines and functions. In addition, we create our own tools and methods.
We strive to foster wholeness in people and organizations and believe that creativity heals, restoring to people a sense of purpose and connectedness with their inner genius.
Our Key Services
Creativity and imagination run through our entire arc of services, allowing us to deliver uncommon value to clients and help them maximize their impact.
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We work with clients of all sizes and have a healthy respect for both the clout and scale of larger organizations as well as the bravery and inventiveness of grassroots organizations.
Our Metaphor-Based Theory of Change
