Flying Bird exists to drive positive social impact in the world. We offer expertise in social innovation to build large-scale people power, financial sustainability, and lasting change. Watch the video below as Flying Bird’s founder Steve Nagai-Ma, in partnership with Spring Impact, describes 3 groundbreaking principles for folks who want to scale up their social impact endeavors effectively.

The team at Flying Bird are experts in Lean Impact principles and we have a long track record of success in the social change sector. Among other things, we...

  • Helped the Fair Immigration Reform Movement incubate new services that are now serving more than 3 million immigrants each year.
  • Built a large-scale digital communications tool for the Sierra Club that consistently outperforms their email campaigns by 500%.
  • Activated hundreds of thousands of people in support of more than a dozen successful advocacy campaigns with AARP.
  • Worked with Accelerate Change, which incubated a number of successful social enterprises including PushBlack, a media service and advocacy organization that recruited 3.8 million subscribers in 2 years.

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Our Services

Lean Impact Training/Workshop (2 to 6 hours)

This workshop is designed to help change-makers develop more effective solutions, with a particular focus on innovations that will dramatically increase social impact and scale.

Participants will learn the highly effective innovation framework laid out in the book “The Lean Startup” and taught in dozens of universities including Stanford University, Harvard Business School, and the University of Oxford. This training also builds on the lessons and insights revealed in the book Lean Impact, which describes how social innovators have been successfully using Lean concepts for social change. Finally, this training draws on our many years of experience working with social innovators to develop solutions that are now impacting millions of people.

Your team will set ambitious goals, ideate on ways to make more impact, understand the importance of building working prototypes quickly, and learn how to engage in rapid experimentation in pursuit of much better solutions.

The training is a mix of case studies, presentation, and time for your team to apply the lessons to your organization's specific context.

Lean Impact Workshop and Experimental Sprint (3-6 months)

We will offer all that is described in the Lean Impact Training/Workshop and also guide your team through an experimental sprint which includes prototype building, experiments with actual constituents, data tracking and analysis, iterations on your prototype, and more testing with constituents.

Lean Impact Expert Coaching (1-3 hours weekly)

As you and your team engage in the Lean Impact process, we will offer you expert guidance on building minimum viable products, designing effective experiments, analyzing data, and creating innovation accounting dashboards.

 

Interested in working with us? Questions? Want a quote? Email Steve directly at steve@flyingbird.us.

Note: Lean Innovation is a close cousin to Human Centered Design, Design Thinking, Agile, and other processes that involve running experiments to gain insights from users and iterating based on data.