Learning Worlds
Learning Worlds

Tim Maner, New York
(646) 442-4438

Meghan Trainor, Seattle
(646) 442-4458
Learning Worlds is an innovation and communications firm that helps clients develop and share their new concepts, processes, initiatives, and products. By combining innovative problem solving with collaborative communications, we help our clients overcome traditional business barriers. Ideas stop getting clogged in the pipeline and start becoming practical, actionable projects that add value.
What We Do

Here are some things we're working on

ART, SCIENCE, AND CREATIVITY:
We’re working with Harvey Seifter, founder of Creativity Connection, author of Leadership Ensemble and editor of Arts-Based Learning for Business, on a range of seminal projects leveraging arts-based learning to help transform the world. One project focuses on using the arts in science education. Another is shaping a new paradigm for global cultural exchange utilizing web-based digital media. Read about the intersection of arts, business, and global culture on Harvey's blog, Synthesis.

COMMUNICATING:
On May 1 in New York, we hosted a Media Localization Round Table. A diverse group explored the challenges of making multimedia content accessible, understandable and appropriate to a multitude of local audiences in an increasingly global marketplace.

PARTNERING:
We recently became a strategy partner with Accept Innovation Management Solutions. The partnership will combine our unique ideation methods and our communications approach to change management with their modular management software to drive the innovation process and create competitive advantage for our clients.

 
How We Do It

INNOVATE

Idea Generation: Rigorous exploration of all possibilities within a given idea space

Analysis / Evaluation: Better decisions quicker with internal/ external alignment

Strategy / Positioning: The systematic pursuit of successful differentiation

Process Development: Improvement and innovation in the process of innovation

COMMUNICATE

Road Mapping: Construction of tactical steps to reach business goals

Narrative Development: Shaping a unified story to facilitate communication

Visualization: Design to clarify and enhance concepts for a unified vision

Applied Social Networking: Engagement of internal and external communities

 
Our Clients

Approva
Bristlecone
CapGemini
CAST
Church & Dwight
Commerce Bank
Epson
Evalubase
IBM
Kaplan
Kepner Tregoe
LexisNexis
Lucent
Lumigent
Merrill Lynch
Microsoft
Motive Interactive
Nortel
NTT
NYSE
SAP
ScioInspire
Sun
Xerox

 
What We Do

Creativity is a powerful business tool at Learning Worlds.

Learning Worlds springs from the intersection of art, technology, and business. In 1990, Yale School of Drama graduates John Reaves and Liz Dreyer began their collaboration by founding a non-profit arts and technology R&D performance lab. Their work on the integration of emerging media and long-distance collaboration attracted the interest of global technology companies including IBM, Lucent, and NTT.

In 1998, John and Liz created Learning Worlds to focus on developing initiatives and communication strategies for these and other high-tech organizations. The company’s structure continues to follow a theatrical paradigm that embraces collaboration and breakthrough thinking. To that end, Learning Worlds has built a diverse staff that includes business strategists, educators, developers, artists, and theater and film professionals. With a talent for technical and artistic innovation and hands-on knowledge of new technologies, Learning Worlds provides creative and strategic client solutions.

Learning Worlds: 15 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010   Main: (212) 725-0436   Fax: (212) 725-7627
Other LW sites: Satellites (our side projects), Sketchbook (our idea pool), and the LW sponsored Digital Performance Institute.