Office Hours with Christopher Fick

Design Clarity for Founders

Office Hours with Chris Fick
A space for entrepreneurs, makers, and small business leaders to find clarity and confidence through design thinking. Design isn’t just about visuals — it’s how you make sense of complexity, communicate your purpose, and connect ideas to people. Chris Fick helps founders and small business leaders move from idea to clarity. Drawing from experience in design research, design anthropology, and innovation strategy, Chris guides teams to uncover insights, map opportunities, and design for impact. His office hours are a space to explore ideas, test assumptions, and build momentum toward meaningful growth.

In these sessions, I help founders:

• Discover what their customers truly value through design research and design anthropology.
• Turn uncertainty into opportunity using service and systems design methods.
• Clarify their vision, product, and brand narrative.
• Build creative confidence in how they lead, communicate, and grow their ideas.

I bring 15+ years of experience helping organizations translate complexity into human-centered strategies that work in the real world. My goal is to help founders uncover the insights, unleash creative problem solving, and direction that move their ideas forward.

About Chris
Chris Fick is a design leader and innovation strategist with over 15 years of experience helping organizations navigate complexity and bring human-centered ideas to life. His work spans technology, manufacturing, and nonprofit sectors — guiding teams through design research, systems thinking, and creative facilitation to turn uncertainty into opportunity. Chris recently partnered with the University of Michigan’s Tauber Institute to develop an AI adoption strategy for small manufacturers, blending design strategy with practical implementation. An advocate for collaborative problem-solving, Chris is passionate about helping founders and small business leaders find clarity, creativity, and confidence in their next big move.