ABOUT US
We are an eclectic team of design thinkers who bring diverse perspectives to complex problem-solving. We pride ourselves on our collaborative spirit and positive approach to co-creating impactful solutions with our clients.
\ Team
MARK GERNER
Mark Gerner has 30 years of experience designing, building, and leading vibrant companies. He has helped these businesses achieve rapid growth by instilling in them strong design-thinking cultures that prize innovation.
Mark has enjoyed positions in executive leadership in multiple industries including Architecture, Software Services, C-Level Management Consulting, and Oil and Gas, and has led market development in the U.S. as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Combining a lifetime of creative pursuits and a successful career in leading businesses, Mark formed RAD&, a multidisciplinary design-thinking studio serving diverse organizations. With Fran White, Mark co-authored Connect2Cause, a precursor to RAD&, which offered design-thinking-based views into organizations’ and individuals’ core contributions. He has also authored PBM, a process-based business modeling methodology used by Fortune 500 companies undergoing large-scale business transformation.
Mark holds a Master of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management (ranked the #9 leadership program in the world by The Financial Times) where he was awarded the top academic scholarship. Mark also holds a B.A. with Honors from Texas Tech University where he double- majored in English and French.
ANDREW STURM
Andrew Sturm has more than 20 years experience in facilitation and design of organization/project specific retreats, workshops and trainings. His education in facilitation and interactive workshops started through architecture at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) in 2000, where he was a Design + Research Fellow and eventually Director of Design. At DCDC Andrew was trained in a rigorous approach to engage diverse groups in unearthing their deepest challenges and intentions, so that they could come together to solve them. He then went on to refine and apply what he learned across multiple industries and continents.
Andrew has worked all over the U.S. and in Africa, Central America and Europe in collaboration with numerous organizations and teams. The projects have varied from organizational design + branding in Dallas, TX to space + program design in Nairobi, Kenya. Andrew has worked with academic institutions, non-profits, neighborhoods, large companies, start ups, and everything in between.
Two key strengths of Andrew’s are his broad range of experience and human-centered approach to design + facilitation. In 2014 Andrew formed Public Works Studio, which is his consulting and creative practice. Public Works takes on many types of projects from workshop facilitation to design and art making, at scales large and small. The thread that weaves through all of Andrew’s work is that every project starts with listening to the intentions and needs of the stakeholders involved to identify what is holding them back, and how best to use the collective expertise in the room to move forward.
\ Partnerships
RAD& is a proud partner of LEARN, a nonprofit whose mission is to enhance Learning Environments with Actionable strategies and solutions from analysis and development of Research, utilizing a Network of education partners.
RAD& brings its Design Thinking methodology and our experience in designing public schools to AmplifyED Studio, a design collective in partnership with Wight & Company, an award winning architectural firm dedicated to meaningful learning environments.